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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Michael Haneke’s Amour
January 1, 1970Gist: ‘The humiliation of the elderly’ is the original one-line mission statement for this one. Haneke...
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Ken Loach’s Angel’s Share
January 1, 1970Gist: A tad bit more mellow than 2009’s Looking For Eric, and working once again with...
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Adel Yaraghi’s Ashnaee ba Leila
January 1, 1970Gist: Details are very slight on this debut project from actor Adel Yaraghi, who co-wrote the...
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Alice Winocour’s Augustine
January 1, 1970Gist: A period piece that reads like Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method, up-and-comer actress Soko (from the...
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Behn Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild
January 1, 1970Gist: Winner of Sundance’s Grand Jury prize, along with a cinematography kudo for Ben Richardson, Behn...
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Cristian Mungiu’s Beyond The Hills
January 1, 1970Gist: Mungiu’s follow-up to his Palme d’Or-winning 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days sounds like it...
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Peter Strickland’s Berberian Sound Studio
January 1, 1970Gist: What The Artist proved is that the Croisette is an apt venue for valentine cards...
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Matteo Garrone’s Big House
January 1, 1970Gist: Another reflection of Italy’s cultural instability (I think this one might take a jab at...
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Jesper Ganslandt’s Blondie
January 1, 1970Gist: Mothers and musicals, Blondie is about a family where the three adult sisters (Alexandra Dahlstrom,...
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Srdan Golubovic’s Circles
January 1, 1970Gist: Based on the life of real-life Serb soldier Srdjan Aleksic, the film opens during the...
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis
January 1, 1970Gist: In what might be the best corporate yuppie slash killer portrait since American Psycho, the...
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Philip Koch’s The End of Childhood (Das Ende der Kindheit)
January 1, 1970Gist: Set in 1932 – the eve of the Third Reich – three children find a...
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Sergei Loznitsa’s In the Fog
January 1, 1970Gist: This is an existential World War II drama made with German, Latvian, and Dutch funding....
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Jaime Rosales’ Dream and Silence
January 1, 1970Gist: Combining a traditional grief narrative with a Lady on a Train twist, a family is...
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Israel Adrián Caetano’s Evil Woman
January 1, 1970Gist: Known simply as Mala (Evil Woman), Israel Adrian Caetano’s revenge thriller features a young woman...
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Jean-Paul Civeyrac’s Fairy Queen
January 1, 1970Gist: Made with about 30 students from l’École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (writing, artistic and...
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: David Verbeek’s Full Contact
January 1, 1970Gist: Verbeek describes the film as a road movie through the subconscious of a US soldier...
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Terrence Malick’s The Funeral
January 1, 1970Gist: Regardless if this one is called The Burial or The Funeral, the official synopsis reads...
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Peter Greenaway’s Goltzius and the Pelican Company
January 1, 1970Gist: Fitting snugly with Greenaway’s themes of theatre, storytelling, and abject depictions of the human, erotic...
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Manoel de Oliveira’s Gebo and the Shadow
January 1, 1970Gist: The Portuguese filmmaker is working in the French language once again, this one based on...
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Albert Serra’s Historia de la meva mort
January 1, 1970Gist: Also known as ‘Albert Serra’s Dracula movie’, the plot focuses on the transition between the...
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Leos Carax’s Holy Motors
January 1, 1970Gist: I’m sure their might be sequel, a prequel or inspired-like portions from Tokyo! in what,...
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Hong Sang-soo’s In Another Country
January 1, 1970Gist: We’ll just let Hong explain this one in his own words: “In another country, a...
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Sandrine Bonnaire’s J’enrage de son absence
January 1, 1970Gist: After a ten-year long absence, Jacques comes back into Mado’s life. Of course, she is...
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Raymond Depardon’s Journal de France
January 1, 1970Gist: This is a travelogue that documents six years of Depardon and his large-format camera roaming...
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Aleksei German’s The Chronicle of the Arkanar Massacre
January 1, 1970Gist: At one time was called (by the novel’s title) Hard to Be a God, in script...
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: François Ozon’s In the House
January 1, 1970Gist: With not much to go on, I think In the House might belong to the...
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Xan Cassevetes’ Kiss of the Damned
January 1, 1970Gist: Potentially following in the footsteps of recent vampire-themed Croisette films (2009’s Thirst, 2010’s We Are...
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Lu Chuan’s The Last Supper
January 1, 1970Gist: Starring Ye Liu, Daniel Wu and Chen Chang, we can expect sword-fights and excellent production...
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Xavier Dolan’s Laurence Anyways
January 1, 1970Gist: The filmmaker’s most personal and biggest budget to date, this is set in the late...
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Abbas Kiarostami’s Like Someone in Love
January 1, 1970Gist: Considered a sort of sequel to Kiarostami’s 2010 Certified Copy, it reads like it could...
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Raúl Ruiz/Valeria Sarmiento’s Lines of Wellington
January 1, 1970Gist: Ruiz’s widow and editorial collaborator Valeria Sarmiento took over the reins on this project when...
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Aida Begic’s Mamac
January 1, 1970Gist: This is a collaboration between Begic and Turkish filmmaker Semih Kaplanoğlu, whose film Bal (Honey)...
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Liu Jiayin’s Oxhide III
January 1, 1970Gist: No word yet on what the Liu family will be ‘doing’ this time (our vote...
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise
January 1, 1970Gist: Details are a bit unclear as to whether this will be a 130-minute film with...
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Pablo Agüero’s Petit’ Argentina
January 1, 1970Gist: Protagonist Lisandro is a moody and hyperactive Argentinian architecture student. He comes to Paris for...
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Cate Shortland’s Lore
January 1, 1970Gist: Spring 1945. As the German front collapses, the Allied forces take control of Hitler’s country. With...
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Joachim Lafosse’s Loving Without Reason
January 1, 1970Gist: Also being called “Our Children”, Joachim Lafosse sticks to the Flemish and Walloon backdrop that is...
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Nicolas Philibert’s La maison de la Radio
January 1, 1970Gist: If selected this would perhaps be considered a novelty item for the fest — should...
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Pablo Larrain’s No
January 1, 1970Gist: Starring Gael Garcia Bernal, this is inspired in part by “Referendum,” an unpublished play by Antonio...
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Walter Salles’ On the Road
January 1, 1970Gist: 30 years in the making, the Francis Ford Coppola produced, Walter Salles directed On the...
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Atiq Rahimi’s The Patience Stone
January 1, 1970Gist: Co-written (along with Jean-Claude Carrière) and directed by the author himself, Atiq Rahimi’s best seller...
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For One Date Only; Beastie Boys’ Oscilloscope to Feature LCD’s Shut Up and Play the Hits this Summer
January 1, 1970After popular showings at Sundance and SXSW, Variety reports that the hip label Oscilloscope Laboratories have...
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master
January 1, 1970Gist: A charismatic intellectual (long time contributor Philip Seymour Hoffman) launches a faith-based organization following World...
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Potential First Cannes Title Pick-up; Shortland’s ‘Lore’ Heads to Music Box
January 1, 1970Cate Shortland’s upcoming sophomore Lore has been picked up by a distributor other than Sony Pictures...