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The biggest festival is back soon, with the line up announced next Thursday (13th April).
So as we are in the habit of predicting things, what are we thinking will be opening, closing, premiering, and most importantly, competing, at the Croisette this year?
ReplyMy Predictions For Opening, Closing, Premiering and In Competition Films.
Opening Film: King Arthur Legend of the Sword (Guy Ritchie)
Closing Film: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (Luc Besson)
Premiering: Wonder Wheel (Woody Allen)The Beguiled (Sofia Coppola)
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Beyond Words (Urszula Antoniak)
A Ciambra (Jonas Carpignano)
Cobain (Nanouk Leopold)
Happy End (Michael Haneke)
Ishmael’s Ghosts (Arnaud Desplechin)
Kings (Deniz Gamze Erguven)
Lean on Pete (Andrew Haigh)
Madam Hyde (Serge Bozon)
Mektoub is Mektoub (Abdellatif Kechiche)
Okja (Bong Joon-ho)
A Radiance (Naomi Kawase)
Redoubtable (Michel Hazanavicius)
A Season in France (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun)
The Summit (Santiago Mitre)
Sweet Country (Warwick Thornton)
The Third Murder (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
Wonderstruck (Todd Haynes)Any news on who is going to be on the jury? Wouldnt it be great if Barry Jenkins or Chazelle could be on the jury this year?
Predictions for films in competition:
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Wonderstruck by Todd Haynes
Claire´s Camera by Hong Sang-soo
Dark Glasses by Claire Denis
D’après une histoire vra by Roman Polanski
Kings by Deniz Gamze Erguven
Okja by Bong Joon-hoBeside my beloved Sofia Coppola (it would be time to finally see a great film directed by her after some mixed results), I am SO pumped up for Haneke. At the time Amour came out I didn’t know him well and now he’s one of my favourite directors. Not all of his films are extraordinary (many of them are to be honest), but not a single one is uninteresting.
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It looks like we have a ton of lscar contenders from Cannes this year. I don’t think we had many last year. The only one I can think of is Loving. There was probably more that I’m forgetting.
You’re forgetting Elle. Loving and Elle made the Best Actress slate this year look less pedestrian.
ReplyCopy URLIt looks like we have a ton of lscar contenders from Cannes this year. I don’t think we had many last year. The only one I can think of is Loving. There was probably more that I’m forgetting.
You’re forgetting Elle. Loving and Elle made the Best Actress slate this year look less pedestrian.
Duh. I knew I was forgetting one. Thanks! Every time I think about Elle I like it more and more. Also, did Aquarius debut at Cannes. I feel guilty every time I think about that movie because I didn’t include Braga in my personal line up for some stupid reason lol. She honestly should have won the Oscar.
ReplyCopy URLWonderstruck seems interesting. What’s Kings?
Latest film from the director of Mustang, which screened in the Directors Fortnight at Cannes, and was later Oscar nominated:
“A South Central recluse helps a woman’s working-class mother during the 1992 civil unrest in Los Angeles.”
Starring Daniel Craig and Halle Berry, and is in English.
ReplyCopy URLKechiche’s Mektoub Is Mektoub may not debut a top Cannes after all.
French publication Le Point (via The Playlist) reveals that any chance of the film hitting Cannes this year have been squashed as the project has expanded beyond its initial plans.
The paper indicates that Kechiche has turned the project into a two-film familial saga now respectively titled “The Die Is Cast” and “Pray for Jack”.
This has led to complications with the financiers as Kechiche’s contract is to deliver one film – so now everyone is going to court.
Should Kechiche win, he then wants to show both pictures at Cannes next year. Kechiche is also already working on two more films to shoot this summer titled “Lamb Of God” and “Sister Marguerite”.
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