Will the Cannes Film Festival continue their love affair with Quebecois filmmakers? Last year was an specially strong year, the Director’s Fortnight section loaded up, inviting a trio of titles from auteurs such as Denis Villeneuve, Denis Côté and the discovery of the section, in Xavier Dolan and his debut film I Killed My Mother. I’ve mentioned in my Cannes predictions that Villeneuve has a better than average chance in moving up a section with Incendies, and Xavier Dolan is most likely going to show up in the same section with his second film, Love Imagined aka Les Amours imaginaires, (for which we have some exclusive pics for) – a romantic drama featuring a bizarre love triangle. But the 2010 edition might include a couple more helmers from French Canada.
Just the other day I had a writer from Chile contact me for a piece about the probabilities for the Cannes line-up – just about every country must have a trade that are speculating on local fair making it to the fest. French newspaper Le Devoir got into the game mentioning the above two titles I mentioned, and they think that Côté might return with Curling (you can watch a clip here), Maxime Giroux, who brought his short film to Sundance a couple of years back, is hoping for Jo pour Jonathan to find a spot, agitator Robert Morin would certainly make things interesting with Journal d’un coopérant – his travelogue drama about a pedophile, and a pair of female filmmakers in Catherine Martin (Trois temps après la mort d’Anna) and Julie Hivon (Tromper le silence) are hopefuls for a spot if you go by the article.