Annie Silverstein's Bull | 2019 Cannes Film Festival

Annie Silverstein’s Bull | 2019 Cannes Film Festival

Published on May 15, 2019

Not officially opening the section, but nonetheless the first film out of the Un Certain Regard gate, Annie Silverstein presented her directorial debut Bull at the Debussy this morning — a second trip for the filmmaker in Cannes where she won the the Cinéfondation jury award for the short “Skunk” back in 2014. Silverstein explores the crux point of making morally right and wrong choices/decisions with an unlikely pairing of dual lost souls (mix of professional and non-professional in Rob Morgan Amber Havard) and thematically addresses redemption and takes stock of true ownership of one’s destiny sans artifice. Here is the presentation footage:

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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).