This year Korean writer and director Bong Joon-Ho will preside over the jury that hands out the Camera d'Or (Golden Camera) award - the only cross-section award on the Croisette that is given to the best first feature. This year's winner will join the ranks of Michael Rowe (Leap Year, 2010), Warwick Thornton (Samson & Delilah, 2009), Steve McQueen (Hunger, 2008), Etgar Keret & Shira Geffen (Jellyfish, 2007), Corneliu Porumboiu (12:08 East of Bucharest, 2006) who all won the prestigious prize in the last five years.
The Safdie brothers who closed the same sidebar last year with a short film and The Pleasure of Being Robbed have combined their efforts to bring another project in Go Get Some Rosemary, which oddly sounds like something my mother might have said when I was a young lad. The pair to watch out for in the section are Colossal Youth's director Pedro Costa who returns to Cannes with his docu on Jeanne Balibar called Ne change rien. Three year's back he got beat up by critics. Woman Is the Future of Man's Hong Sang-soo (who I originally balked at including in my predictions for the Main Comp) is finally going to showcase his latest work (Like You Know it All) in the 41st edition of the section
IONCINEMA.com's Chief Film Critic Nicholas Bell reviewed the entire competition and more. Here is a comprehensive guide to all the feature films across all...