Cannes 2009 Day 4 Offerings: Audiard, Hong Sangsoo, Ang Lee

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I’m looking forward to my three screenings today, beginning with an 8:30 start to Jacques Audiard’s two plus hour film, followed by certified mumblecore card-carrying members in the Safdie brothers and their newest picture in the Quinzaine, and I’ll make a trip to the Bazin theater for a day after screening to the next piece from Camera d’or winning director of 12:08 East of Bucharest and a tale about corruption in his homeland of Romania. Here is what is playing in the other sections. 

Cannes 2009 Day 4

IONCINEMA.com Schedule: A Prophet, Go Get Some Rosemary and next day screening of Police, Adjective.

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Main Comp: Ang Lee‘s Taking Woodstock and Jacques Audiard‘s A Prophet on the menu today, I can’t help but feel that Audiard’s new film might come across as The Alchemist immersed into a gangster worl behind bars. Ne Te Retourne Pas gets a midnight showing and out of comp — looks like a gimmick-like thriller that I’m passing on.

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Un Certain Regard: Samson and Delilah and Bong Joon-ho‘s Mother.

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Director’s Fortnight: Hong Sangsoo‘s Like You Know It All, La Merditude des choses from Félix van Groeningen and returnees to the section: Josh and Benny Safdie’s Go Get Some Rosemary.

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Critic’s Week: A special screening of Albert Pereira-Lazaro and Emmanuel Klotz’s Round da Way and Nassim Amaouche‘s Adieu Gary.

Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society), FIPRESCI and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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