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"It happens every year: at least one film from France is in competition that the domestic audience seems to adore but which leaves us foreign journalists, almost without exception, utterly nonplussed as to why it was selected." Sight & Sound editor Nick James: "This year's puzzle is Pater (France), the latest relaxed, personal, made-at-home film from the usually estimable Alain Cavalier."
"There is one fascinating, appalling non-cinema subject that people have been talking about endlessly," notes the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw from Cannes. "The line taken generally is that Strauss-Kahn is innocent until proven guilty, but also an uneasy sense that this sort of legal sensation could never have happened in France, where attitudes to sexual politics and powerful men are quite different. The case gave an interesting flavor to Alain Cavalier's Pater, which satirizes the patriarchal system of political power, and power generally, in France. The film… is a stripped-down,...
"It happens every year: at least one film from France is in competition that the domestic audience seems to adore but which leaves us foreign journalists, almost without exception, utterly nonplussed as to why it was selected." Sight & Sound editor Nick James: "This year's puzzle is Pater (France), the latest relaxed, personal, made-at-home film from the usually estimable Alain Cavalier."
"There is one fascinating, appalling non-cinema subject that people have been talking about endlessly," notes the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw from Cannes. "The line taken generally is that Strauss-Kahn is innocent until proven guilty, but also an uneasy sense that this sort of legal sensation could never have happened in France, where attitudes to sexual politics and powerful men are quite different. The case gave an interesting flavor to Alain Cavalier's Pater, which satirizes the patriarchal system of political power, and power generally, in France. The film… is a stripped-down,...
- 5/21/2011
- MUBI
Cannes is going to have a stellar Main Comp (Pedro, Ramsey, Lars, Dardenne Bros., Kaurismaki) but there are still plenty of unexpected no-shows this year. Making Venice extremely happy we don't find: Giorgos Lanthimos, Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud, Aleksandr Sokurov, Christophe Honoré, Lou Ye, Pen-ek Ratanaruang and Brillante Mendoza. At the top of the list for surprise inclusions we have Camera D'or nominee in Julia Leigh's Sleeping Beauty - (see the Eyes Wide Shut-like trailer here) I was expecting this to be the highlight for the Un Certain Regard section, but I guess this now means her first film is an extremely strong entry from Australia. Despite showing Tiresia in the Main Comp several years ago, I was thinking Bertrand Bonello's L'apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close) (picture above) would be relegated to the Ucr category - which isn't the case. The same can be said about...
- 4/14/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
With a total of 26 pics, we've got some real good looking ones, and our very own Dr. Nathan is tentatively planned to be there to bring us reviews.
How about Air Doll? Check.
Samson & Delilah? Nice.
Fish Tank? Awesome. Our review here.
Check em out after the break.
Masters
Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl Manoel de Oliveira, France/Portugal/Spain
North American Premiere
Famed filmmaker Oliveira, who celebrates his 101st birthday this year, tells the tale of Macario's obsession with the enticing blond he spies from his window. Little does he know that she will end up stealing much more than his heart.
Les Herbes Folles Alain Resnais, France
North American Premiere
From modernist master Alain Resnais comes a romantic adventure based around the simple act of losing a wallet.
Air Doll Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan
North American Premiere
This compelling tale of a blow-up doll that becomes a real person...
How about Air Doll? Check.
Samson & Delilah? Nice.
Fish Tank? Awesome. Our review here.
Check em out after the break.
Masters
Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl Manoel de Oliveira, France/Portugal/Spain
North American Premiere
Famed filmmaker Oliveira, who celebrates his 101st birthday this year, tells the tale of Macario's obsession with the enticing blond he spies from his window. Little does he know that she will end up stealing much more than his heart.
Les Herbes Folles Alain Resnais, France
North American Premiere
From modernist master Alain Resnais comes a romantic adventure based around the simple act of losing a wallet.
Air Doll Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan
North American Premiere
This compelling tale of a blow-up doll that becomes a real person...
- 6/23/2009
- QuietEarth.us
- Traditionally among Tiff's first wave of announcements are titles that premiered at Cannes and Berlin and are solid enough to merit a North American preem in Toronto. Of the first 26 titles announced, nineteen of them were first shown on the Croisette. Tiff's busy Asian, South American and European curators selected Eyes Wide Open (Haim Tabakman), Huacho (Alejandro Fernandez Almendras), Like You Know It All (Hong Sang-Soo), Lourdes (Jessica Hausner), Men on the Bridge (Asli Özge), My Year without Sex (Sarah Watt), Police, Adjective (Corneliu Porumboiu), The Time that Remains (Elia Suleiman), and The Wind Journeys (Ciro Guerra) for the Contemporary World Cinema section, chose Face (Tsai Ming-Liang), Independencia (Raya Martin), Irène (Alain Cavalier), Karaoke (Chris Chong Chan Fui), Nymph (Pen-ek Ratanaruang) and To Die Like a Man (Joäo Pedro Rodrigues) to populate the Visions sidebar. The "Masters" section will see Air Doll (Hirokazu Kore-eda), Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl
- 6/23/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
I think I may have just seen the 2010 Oscar winner for best foreign film. Whether it will win the Palme d'Or here at Cannes is another matter. It may be too much of a movie movie. It's named "A l'origine," by Xavier Giannoli, and is one of several titles I want to discuss in a little festival catch-up. Based on an incredible true story, it involves an insignificant thief, just released from prison, who becomes involved in an impromptu con game that results in the actual construction of a stretch of highway. At the beginning he has no plans to build a highway. He simply sees a way to swindle a contractor out of 15,000 euros. He is sad, defeated, unwanted, apart from his wife and child, sleeping on a pal's sofa. What happens is not caused by him nor desired by him. It simply happens to him.
This is one...
This is one...
- 5/25/2009
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
Direct from Cineuropa:
It’s an impressive feat for Franco-German TV network Arte, which backed 16 features selected in the different sections of the 62nd Cannes Film Festival (May 13-24).
In the Official Selection, Arte is represented by nine features, including two co-productions by Arte France Cinéma in competition: Danish director Lars von Trier’s Antichrist [trailer] (also supported by Arte/Zdf) and Taiwanese filmmaker Tsaï Ming-Liang’s Face.
The Un Certain Regard section includes three films backed by Arte France Cinéma (Father of My Children by France’s Mia Hansen-Love, Irène by fellow French director Alain Cavalier and Independencia by Philippine filmmaker Raya Martin) and two by Arte/Zdf (Eyes Wide Open by Israel’s Haim Tabakman and The Wind Journeys by Colombia’s Ciro Guerra).
In the Official Selection, there will be Special Screenings of Chinese director Zhao Liang’s Petition (co-produced by Arte France) and Israeli filmmaker Keren Yedaya...
It’s an impressive feat for Franco-German TV network Arte, which backed 16 features selected in the different sections of the 62nd Cannes Film Festival (May 13-24).
In the Official Selection, Arte is represented by nine features, including two co-productions by Arte France Cinéma in competition: Danish director Lars von Trier’s Antichrist [trailer] (also supported by Arte/Zdf) and Taiwanese filmmaker Tsaï Ming-Liang’s Face.
The Un Certain Regard section includes three films backed by Arte France Cinéma (Father of My Children by France’s Mia Hansen-Love, Irène by fellow French director Alain Cavalier and Independencia by Philippine filmmaker Raya Martin) and two by Arte/Zdf (Eyes Wide Open by Israel’s Haim Tabakman and The Wind Journeys by Colombia’s Ciro Guerra).
In the Official Selection, there will be Special Screenings of Chinese director Zhao Liang’s Petition (co-produced by Arte France) and Israeli filmmaker Keren Yedaya...
- 5/3/2009
- by Sydney@SydneysBuzz.com (Sydney)
- Sydney's Buzz
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