Festival Predictions

2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Michael Rowe’s Manto Acuifero

Published on April 14, 2013

#14. Michael Rowe’s Manto Acuifero

Gist: Part of a trilogy of films based on solitude, this revolves around a couple who decide to divorce, affecting the emotional state of his daughter, who on her own and through various circumstances, is forced to find support elsewhere.

Prediction: Rowe’s Leap Year (Directors’ Fortnight) won the Camera d’Or in 2011 and Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna’s Canana Productions have been a mainstay in Cannes since 2007 – and all indications point towards Rowe’s latest feature to crawl into the Un Certain Regard section – potentially dislodging a spot from other Mexican film auteurs.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).