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Cannes Poster: Xavier Dolan’s Les Amours imaginaires (Heartbeats)
Here is your first look at the festival poster for Xavier Dolan's Un Certain Regard selected Les Amours imaginaires (a.k.a Heartbeats) in what I imagine is the first of three. Niels Schneider, the actor is who had a bit part in I Killed My Mother has a more significant role in this three way and is featured in the poster below.
Director’s Fortnight 2010: Lerman, Koch, Berthaud, Frammartino, Archer and Grau
La Mirada invisible (The Invisible Eye) - Diego Lerman. Winner of the Sundance/NHK Int. Filmmakers Award and part of Cannes' Atelier de la Cinefondation, this is set in 1982's Buenos Aires, close to the end of the military dictatorship and focuses on the tensions between teachers and students. Picco - Philip Koch. German debut from Koch is actually based on true events, PICCO is the first picture to shed light on the every-day life of youth prison inmates in Germany and shows in a gripping and merciless way that the contemporary judiciary system is by no means able to properly re-educate these lost youths...
Director’s Fortnight 2010: Braganca, Duffy, Boe, Rowe, Hernandez , Renaud Barret & Florent de la Tullaye
Alegria (Joy) Marina Méliande and Felipe Braganca. Braganca who we know from 2006's Love for Sale, teams up on a project which you can get a better feel for if you check out this picture and if you read portuguese. All Good Children - Alicia Duffy. This Brit debut promises to hit you where it hurts. Based on Sam Taylor’s novel The Republic of Trees, this centres on Dara and Eoin, two young Irish children of 11 and 12, who have to go and live at their aunt’s house in France, following their mother’s suicide.
Start Me Up!: Cannes Director’s Fortnight Selections
In the list we find three items on my "Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of the Year in: Fabienne Berthaud's Pieds nus sur les limaces (see pic of Diane Kruger above), Cam Archer's Shit Year and Alistair Banks Griffin's debut film, Two Gates Of Sleep. Also included in the section is a doc-essay film from Michelangelo Frammartino that I'll be itching to see as well. Of the veteran auteurs, we have works from Christoffer Boe, Jean-Paul Civeyrac, old school High School doc filmmaker Frederik Wiseman and look for the Rolling Stones to be on hand for Stephen Kijak's Stones In Exile..
The Other Carlos in Cannes: Diegues’ 5XFavela
The chances of us finding the next Walter Salles or Fernando Meirelles via Carlos Diegues' 5XFavela are next to nil, but I'd argue that's besides the point. Amongst Cannes' feel good stories this year will be this one, a Special Screening selection just added by Cannes today.
