Tag: 2013 Cannes Film Festival
Folman’s The Congress Opens Directors’ Fortnight
Yesterday's glaring omission from the Cannes lineup will be the opening film for the Directors’ Fortnight. Edouard Waintrop has nabbed Ari Folman’s The Congress,...
Sofia Coppola’s “The Bling Ring” Opens Un Certain Regard in Cannes’ Year of the Woman?
We doubt that it'll be as populated as Sundance was, but if this year’s Cannes Film Festival should be remembered for anything, it will...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Arnaud Desplechin’s Jimmy P.
#1. Arnaud Desplechin's Jimmy P.
Gist: Desplechin's first film in 5 years, his first English language, U.S. production pits muse Mathieu Amalric vs. Benicio Del...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Joel & Ethan Coen’s Inside Llewyn Davis
#2. Joel & Ethan Coen's Inside Llewyn Davis
Gist: Follows an aspiring singer-songwriter (Oscar Isaac) as he navigates the 1960s folk-music scene in New York...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Asghar Farhadi’s The Past
#3. Asghar Farhadi's The Past
Gist: Farhadi returns to the spotlight after the success of 2011's A Separation, with a domestic drama about an Iranian...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Ari Folman’s The Congress
#4. Ari Folman’s The Congress
Gist: In The Congress, an aging actress (Robin Wright) with a disabled child agrees to a large payment to have...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God
#5. Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives
Gist: Julien (Ryan Gosling) runs a Thai boxing club in Bangkok, but the business is a front for...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: James Gray’s Lowlife
#6. James Gray's Lowlife
Gist: An innocent immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Paolo Sorrentino’s La Grande Bellezza
#7. Paolo Sorrentino’s La Grande Bellezza
Gist: The story of an aging journalist, Jap Gambardella (Toni Servillo, the man behind the Andreotti mask in Il...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive
#8. Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive
Gist: A story centered on two vampires who have been in love for centuries, the story follows Adam...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Catherine Breillat’s Abuse of Weakness
#9. Catherine Breillat’s Abuse of Weakness
Gist: Abuse of Weakness will trace the autobiographical experience of Breillat with a notorious swindler. Isabelle Huppert stars as...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring
#10. Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring
Gist: Inspired by actual events, a group of fame-obsessed teenagers use the Internet to track celebrities’ whereabouts in order...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s Grisgris
#11. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's Grisgris
Gist: It will tell the story of a 25-year-old man with a paralyzed leg who dreams of becoming a dancer, and...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer
#12. Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer
Gist: Based on the French graphic novel by Benjamin Legrand and Jacques Lob, Snowpiercer is set in a future where, after...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Roman Polanski’s Venus In Fur
#13. Roman Polanski's Venus In Fur
Gist: Polanski's wife Emmanuelle Seigner stars in this off-Broadway play adaptation about an actress trying to convince a director...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Michael Rowe’s Manto Acuifero
#14. Michael Rowe's Manto Acuifero
Gist: Part of a trilogy of films based on solitude, this revolves around a couple who decide to divorce, affecting...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue is the Warmest Color
#15. Abdellatif Kechiche's Blue is the Warmest Color
Gist: This centers on Jocelyne (Adele Exarchopoulos), who is 15 years old and is certain of two...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Claire Denis’ Bastards
#16. Claire Denis’ Bastards
Gist: Container ship captain Marco Silvestri is called urgently back to Paris. His sister, Sandra, is desperate... her husband has committed...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Tsai Ming-Liang’s Diary of a Young Boy
#17. Tsai Ming-Liang's Diary of a Young Boy
Gist: Tsai’s first feature since 2009’s, Face, this new one is set to recount the misfortunes of...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye To Language 3D
#18. Jean-Luc Godard's Goodbye To Language 3D
Gist: The idea is simple: A married woman and a single man meet. They love, they argue, fists...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin
#19. Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin
Gist: Based on Michel Faber’s 2000 novel, this is about Isserley (Scarlett Johansson), an extraterrestrial sent to Earth by...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Guillaume Canet’s Blood Ties
#20. Guillaume Canet's Blood Ties
Gist: Written by James Gray, with the ensemble cast of Clive Owen, Billy Crudup, Mila Kunis, James Caan, Marion Cotillard,...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Amat Escalante’s Heli
#21. Amat Escalante's Heli
Gist: Less encompassing than the Un Certain Regard selected Miss Bala, shot in various locations outside the city of Guanajuato, where...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Real
#22. Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Real
Gist: His first feature since Tokyo Sonata, which won the Un Certain Regard at Cannes, as well as best picture and...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Serge Bozon’s Tip Top
#23. Serge Bozon's Tip Top
Gist: Based on the novel by British author Bill James, Tip Top follows two female police inspectors from the police’s...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Kelly Reichardt’s Night Moves
#24. Kelly Reichardt's Night Moves
Gist: Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Peter Sarsgaard and Dakota Fanning, this centers on three environmentalists who plot to blow up a...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Corneliu Porumboiu’s A Nine-Minute Interval
#25. Corneliu Porumboiu's A Nine Minute Interval
Gist: We A Nine Minute Interval, I think we can expect some of the infused situational deadpan humor...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Michel & Vicky Franco’s A los ojos
#26. Michel & Vicky Franco's A los ojos
Gist: Featuring mostly non-actors, A los ojos is a docu-fiction hybrid about a mother (Año bisiesto's Monica del...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Steven Soderbergh’s Behind the Candelabra
#27. Steven Soderbergh's Behind the Candelabra
Gist: Based on the autobiographical novel, the film recounts the tempestuous 6 year relationship between Liberace and his much...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Alexander Payne’s Nebraska
#28. Alexander Payne's Nebraska
Gist: Payne's deft touch with comedy is always a pleasure to behold. A elderly boozing father and his estranged son make...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Like Father Like Son
#29. Hirokazu Kore-eda's Like Father Like Son
Gist: A successful businessman driven by money, learns that his biological son was switched with another child after...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s Dau
#30. Ilya Khrzhanovsky's Dau
Gist: In short, this is an epic biographical film depicting the life of scientist Lev Landau.
Prediction: Back in 2005, Khrzhanosvsky won...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Dance of Reality
#31. Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Dance of Reality
Gist: Alejandro Jodorowsky has published 23 novels, but it’s his autobiography that the 84 year-old Chilean director has...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi’s A Castle in Italy
#32. Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi's A Castle in Italy
Gist: An actress of charm and intelligence, Bruni-Tedeschi (Un couple parfait, Rien a faire, 5x2, The Milk of...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Denis Villeneuve’s An Enemy
#33. Denis Villeneuve's An Enemy
Gist: A man seeks out his exact look-alike after spotting him in a movie. Villeneuve's An Enemy, based on the...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Hubert Sauper’s We Come as Friends
#34. Hubert Sauper's We Come as Friends
Gist: Much in the same matter as fact tone as Darwin's Nightmare - this looks at slave...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Riad Sattouf’s Jacky In Women’s Kingdom
#35. Riad Sattouf’s Jacky In Women’s Kingdom
Gist: Similar in theme as something akin to Egalia’s Daughters by Gerd Brantenberg, Sattouf’s film is set in...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Francois Ozon’s Just 17
#36. Francois Ozon’s Just 17
Gist: For his fourteenth feature, Ozon has chosen to film from a closed set with a media blackout pertaining to...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Rebecca Zlotowski’s Grand Central
#37. Rebecca Zlotowski's Grand Central
Gist: Cannes regulars Léa Seydoux, Tahar Rahim, and Olivier Gourmet star in a pic that is being called a complex...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Diego Luna’s Chavez
#38. Diego Luna's Chavez
Gist: Written by Keir Pearson, the inspirational story of Cesar Chavez, the celebrated Mexican American activist who, at great personal cost,...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups
#39. Terrence Malick's Knight of Cups
Gist: Christian Bale, Natalie Portman, Cate Blanchett, Antonio Banderas, Imogen Poots, Freida Pinto and Wes Bentley headline Malick's latest,...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale
#40. Ryan Coogler's Fruitvale
Gist: From the Sundance guide: Oscar Grant was a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who loved his friends, was generous to strangers,...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Katell Quillévéré’s Suzanne
#41. Katell Quillévéré's Suzanne
Gist: Suzanne and Maria are sisters who are extremely, indeed intensely close. They have a happy childhood despite the absence of...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Claire Simon’s Gare du Nord
#42. Claire Simon’s Gare du Nord
Gist: Claire Simon’s fourth feature film will see her applying her documentary style to the Gare du Nord railway...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Pascale Ferran’s Bird People
#43. Pascale Ferran's Bird People
Gist: Starring an acting mix of Radha Mitchell, Josh Charles, Anaïs Demoustier, Clark Johnson and Roschdy Zem, this takes place...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Albert Serra’s The Story of My Death
#44. Albert Serra's The Story of My Death
Gist: Also known as ‘Albert Serra’s Dracula movie’, the plot focuses on the transition between the 18th...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Shinji Aoyama’s Dog Eat Dog
#45. Shinji Aoyama’s Dog Eat Dog
Gist: Based on Shinya Tanaka’s novel, Dog Eat Dog revolves around a 17-year-old boy named Tooma Shinogaki who lives...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: János Szász’s The Notebook
#46. János Szász's The Notebook
Gist: Not your remake of the Ryan Gosling film, based on Agota Kritóf‘s famous and bestselling novel of the same...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Arnaud des Pallieres’ Michael Kohlhaas
#47. Arnaud des Pallieres' Michael Kohlhaas
Gist: This is an adaptation of Heinrich Von Kleist 1811 novella of the same name. Set in the sixteenth...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Alain Guiraudie’s The Unknown Lake
#48. Alain Guiraudie's The Unknown Lake
Gist: "In this love story, two men meet in a nudist resort on the banks of a lake, but...
