Tag: 2013 Cannes Film Festival
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Frederick Wiseman’s At Berkeley
#49. Frederick Wiseman's At Berkeley
Gist: "For the past five weeks, with over 100 hours of film footage, famed documentarian Frederick Wiseman has been working...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Hiner Saleem’s Aga
#50. Hiner Saleem's Aga
Gist: Starring Golshifteh Farahani (she was in his previous 2010 film, Si tu meurs, je te tue!), duel characters share the...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Ben Wheatley’s A Field In England
#51. Ben Wheatley’s A Field In England
Gist: Described as a psychedelic horror film, Wheatley’s latest is set during the English civil war, where a...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Robin Campillo’s Eastern Boys
#52. Robin Campillo's Eastern Boys
Gist: Featuring Olivier Rabourdin (Of Gods and Men), this focuses on one young adult, an immigrant who hangs out with...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza’s Salvo
#53. Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza's Salvo
Gist: Salvo is a mafia killer in Palermo. Rita is twenty and blind from birth. Salvo sneaks into...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Bertrand Tavernier’s Quai d’Orsay
#54. Bertrand Tavernier's Quai d'Orsay
Gist: Written by Christophe Blain, Abel Lanzac, and Tavernier, inspired by true events (the eve of the beginning of the...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Alexei Guerman’s Hard to Be a God
#55. Alexei Guerman's Hard to Be a God
Gist: While it may possibly be released as History of the Arkanar Massacre, we’re hoping this retains...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Steve McQueen’s Twelve Years A Slave
#56. Steve McQueen's Twelve Years A Slave
Gist: After the divisive and award-winning Shame from 2011, McQueen's latest is a period piece set in the...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Spike Jonze’s Her
#57. Spike Jonze's Her
Gist: In the not so distant future, Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix), a lonely writer, purchases a newly developed operating system designed to...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Lee Daniels’ The Butler
#58. Lee Daniels' The Butler
Gist: “Lee tells stories in a way no one else does,” says Harvey Weinstein, and I don’t think he’ll get...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Urszula Antoniak’s Nude Area
#59. Urszula Antoniak's Nude Area
Gist: A project that’s sounds typically Antoniakian (right down to the title) - albeit less suffocating and more optimistic and...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine
#60. Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine
Gist: It’s only been four years, but it feels like ages since Woody Allen has shot one of his films...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Alejandro Fernandez Almendras’ Matar a un Hombre
#61. Alejandro Fernandez Almendras' Matar a un Hombre
Gist: Jorge is a hardworking family man, who lives with his wife and two of his three...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Djinn Carrenard’s Making Love
#62. Djinn Carrenard's Making Love
Gist: Filmed on the outskirts of Paris, Faire l’amour is about a mother who leaves prison in search of her...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Nicole Garcia’s He Left On Sunday
#63. Nicole Garcia’s He Left On Sunday
Gist: Il est parti dimanche takes place during the weekend of Pentecost, a teacher in the South of...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Axelle Ropert’s Tirez la Langue, Mademoiselle
#64. Axelle Ropert's Tirez la Langue, Mademoiselle
Gist: Moving into the comedy/dramatic realm once again, this is about two very close brothers, both doctors in...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Claude Lanzmann’s The Last of the Unjust
#65. Claude Lanzmann's The Last of the Unjust
Gist: This reveals a little-known yet fundamental aspect of the Holocaust, and sheds light on the origins...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Denis Dercourt’s Happy Birthday
#66. Denis Dercourt’s Happy Birthday
Gist: Opening at the beginning of the 1980s in former East Germany, the film centers on Paul who enters into...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Gregg Araki’s White Bird in a Blizzard
#67. Gregg Araki's White Bird in a Blizzard
Gist: Based on the novel by Laura Kasischke, the narrative follows an adolescent female whose life is...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Atom Egoyan’s Devil’s Knot
#68. Atom Egoyan's Devil’s Knot
Gist: What will certainly be served up by Egoyan as atmospherically cold, in 1993, in the small town and religious...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Joanna Hogg’s Untitled London project
#69. Joanna Hogg's Untitled London project
Gist: The as yet untitled third feature from Joanna Hogg is described as the everyday intersection between horrendous and...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Hong Sang-soo’s Our Sun-Hee
#70. Hong Sang-soo's Our Sun-Hee
Gist: No details on this one as yet, but expect soju, dudes with girlfriend issues, a leading character with some...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Sylvain Chomet’s Attila Marcel
#71. Sylvain Chomet's Attila Marcel
Gist: Chomet leaves behind animation for his first live action film, a musical comedy. A young boy sees his parents...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Luc Jacquet’s Once Upon a Forest
#72. Luc Jacquet's Once Upon a Forest
Gist: With Once Upon a Forest, Luc Jacquet invites the spectator into a never-before-seen world of natural wonder...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Ulrich Seidl’s In the Basement
#73. Ulrich Seidl’s In the Basement
Gist: Seidl returns to his roots as a documentary filmmaker for his first feature after completing his revered Paradise...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: J.C. Chandor’s All Is Lost
#74. J.C. Chandor’s All Is Lost
Gist: Robert Redford stars as a man lost at sea in a survival story that is widely reported to...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway & Edgar Pera’s 3x3D
#75. Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway, & Edgar Pêra's 3x3D
Gist: Three directors world-renowned directors explore 3D and its evolution in the field of cinema. Jean-Luc...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem
#76. Terry Gilliam's The Zero Theorem
Gist: A reclusive computer genius named Qohen Leth (Christoph Waltz) spends his time searching for the titular theorem, which...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Gotz Spielmann’s Oktober, November
#77. Gotz Spielmann's Oktober, November
Gist: An estranged family comes together in a guest house in the Alps after a father’s ailing health necessitates a...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Takashi Miike’s Straw Shield
#78. Takashi Miike's Straw Shield
Gist: Based on a novel by Kiuchi Kazuhiro, Straw Shield will follow Fujiwara, a ‘child killer,’ who’s been captured and...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s The Young and Prodigious Spivet
#79. Jean-Pierre Jeunet's The Young and Prodigious Spivet
Gist: Spivet is a 12 year-old prodigy with a passion for cartography and scientific inventions. One day,...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Ruxandra Zenide’s About Cosmetics and Happiness
#80. Ruxandra Zenide's About Cosmetics and Happiness
Gist: The second part of a trilogy that started with Zenide’s Ryna. In this one, Felicia, a young...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Nacho Vigalondo’s Open Windows
#81. Nacho Vigalondo’s Open Windows
Gist: A man (Elijah Wood) obsessed with an abducted actress (played by adult crossover star Sasha Grey) attempts to discover...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Hong Khaou’s Lilting
#82. Hong Khaou's Lilting
Gist: Placed third on 2011 Brit List, with Ben Whishaw toplining, Lilting tells the story of a mother’s attempt at understanding...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Clio Bernard’s The Selfish Giant
#83. Clio Bernard's The Selfish Giant
Gist: Fascinating little tidbit of info is that Clio Barnard based her adaptation of The Selfish Giant on stories...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Lucia Puenzo’s Wakolda
#84. Lucia Puenzo's Wakolda
Gist: Starring Alex Brendemuhl, Natalia Oreiro, Diego Peretti and Elena Roger, this is based on Puenzo's own novel detailing the true...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: David Lowery’s Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
#85. David Lowery's Ain't Them Bodies Saints
Gist: In the spirit of Malick and a slew of films from the 70's, the Sundance synopsis for...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Saodat Ismailova’s 40 Days of Silence
#86. Saodat Ismailova's 40 Days of Silence
Gist: This sees Bibicha, a young woman living in a small Uzbek village, suddenly refuses to speak and...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: J.J Abrams’ Star Trek Into Darkness
#87. J.J Abrams' Star Trek Into Darkness
Gist: Part II in the new cycle, after the crew of the Enterprise find an unstoppable force of...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Faruk Loncarevic’s Berina’s Chakras
#89. Faruk Loncarevic's Berina’s Chakras
Gist: A Sarajevo-set coming of ager, or rather, a self-declared “true” (as in ‘genuine’) coming-of-age story, in that it looks...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Bogdan Mustata’s Wolf
#90. Bogdan Mustata's Wolf
Gist: Featuring 2013 Shooting Star selected Ada Condeescu (Mustata co-wrote Loverboy which she also starred in) this is about a 16-year-old...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Julia Leigh’s Disquiet
#91. Julia Leigh's Disquiet
Gist: Like her feature debut - the 2011 Main Competition alum Sleeping Beauty - Julia Leigh is again directing her own...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Marco Van Geffen’s In Your Name
#92. Marco Van Geffen’s In Your Name
Gist: Following his 2011 film Among Us, the second part of Van Geffen’s Vinex Trilogy, (revolving, facetiously, around...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Liu Jiayin’s Oxhide III
#93. Liu Jiayin's Oxhide III
Gist: No word yet on what the Liu family will be ‘doing’ this time (our vote is for basket weaving),...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Cattet & Forzani’s The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears
#94. Cattet & Forzani’s The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears
Gist: A man’s wife disappears in Brussels under strange circumstances and is determined to...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Destin Cretton’s Short Term 12
#95. Destin Cretton's Short Term 12
Gist: Winner of the Grand Jury and Audience Award (it would have easily measured up against any film at...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Alvaro Brechner’s Mr Kaplan
#96. Alvaro Brechner's Mr Kaplan
Gist: What will most definitely be compared to Sorrentino's This Must Be the Place, the Uruguayan-born, Spanish filmmaker latest focuses...
Soko is the Face of the 52nd Critics’ Week
The young singer turned actress in Xavier Giannoli's In the Beginning, Virginie Despentes' Bye Bye Blondie and specifically last year's Critics' Week selected Alice...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Manuel Nieto Zas’ El Lugar Del Hijo (The Militant)
#97. Manuel Nieto Zas' El Lugar Del Hijo (The Militant)
Gist: Workshopped at Cannes’ Cinefondation Residence in 2008', this is about a college student involved...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Wim Wenders & Juliano Ribeiro Salgad’s Shade & Light
#98. Shade & Light
Gist: Co-directed with Juliano Salgado (the subject's son), Shade & Light focuses on photographer and explorer Sebastião Salgado’s latest work an...
