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Nothing can top last year's Cannes for the German Sales Agent -- Apichatpong Weerasethakul can thank the Tim Burton led jury for Uncle Boonmee being crowned with the Palme. This year The Match Factory have one in the main comp, a dark horse contender with Aki Kaurismaki's Le Havre and they have a trio in the Un Certain Regard section in Oslo, August 31st, Tatsumi and Stopped on Track.

On the world cinema front, we have a new film from Aki Kaurismäki (filming in the North of France), we have Lou Ye joining forces with Tahar Rahim, and another auteur in Phillippe Garrel who will be directing Monica Bellucci.

A good percentage of films that make up the Un Certain Regard section each year work with lingering cameras, long takes and a non-moving camera. You had on one side the Tsai Ming-Ling or Hou Hsiao Hsien kind, and then you have this formula embedded with a wryness coming from the likes of Aki Kaurismaki and Roy Andersson. Police Adjectiv falls somewhere in between.

They Kill Horse Riders, Don’t They?: Ortega Puzzles with Deadpan Metaphors Nothing is what it appears to be in Argentinean Luis Ortega’s latest film Kill...

All the Leaves Are Brown: Kaurismaki’s Song for the Lonely Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismäki adds a fourth chapter to his thematic Proletariat Trilogy with...