“Leaky” Cannes 2012-Exclusive list of films in competition for the 65th festival next month
A slight mishap led to the disclosure of the list of films in competition in this year’s festival.
Take the chance to enjoy this ‘avant-premiere’ from Cannes.
Great to see that both the very young Xavier Dolan (23 years old), and acclaimed veteran director Manoel de Oliveira (103 years old) are represented. Previous Palme d’Or winners are also in contention with last year’s controversial winner Terrence Malick presenting his latest film, The Burial and 2007 winner Cristian Mungiu’s Provizoriu. Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest The Master with Philip Seymour Hoffman, follows his spell-binding There Will be Blood. High expectations are also with Jacques Audiard (Le Prophete) latest De Rouille et d’Os (Rust & Bone) with Marion Cotillard; and Ryan Gosling teams up again with Blue Valentine director, Derek Cianfrance in The Place Beyond the Pines.
An exciting fortnight awaits from the 16th May. Who do you think will carry away the coveted top prize and who are you surprised not to see on the list? Michael Haneke? Walter Salles?
- APRES LA BATAILLE – Yousry Nasrallah
- BIG HOUSE – Matteo Garrone
- THE BURIAL – Terrence Malick
- COSMOPOLIS – David Cronenberg
- DE ROUILLE ET D’OS – Jacques Audiard
- ELEFANTE BIANCO – Pablo Trapero
- GEBO ET L’OMBRE – Manoel de Oliveira
- LE GRAND SOIR – Gustave Kervern et Benoit Delépine
- IL EST DIFFICILE D’ETRE UN DIEU – Alexei Guerman
- IN ANOTHER COUNTRY – Hong Sangsoo
- THE LAND OF HOPE – Sono Sion
- LAURENCE ANYWAYS – Xavier Dolan
- A LIAR’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY & THE TRUE STORY OF MONTY PYTHON’S GRAHAM CHAPMAN – Bill Jones, Jeff Simpson & Ben Timlett
- MAIN DANS LA MAIN – Valérie Donzelli
- THE MASTER – Paul Thomas Anderson
- MISHIMA (provisional title) – Koji Wakamatsu
- MOONRISE KINGDOM – Wes Anderson
- NO – Pablo Larrain
- PIAZZA FONTANA – Marco Tullio Giordana
- A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH REFLECTING ON EXISTENCE –
- Roy Anderson
- THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES – Derek Cianfrance
- PROVIZORIU – Cristian Mungiu
- RHINOS SEASON – Bahman Ghobadi
- STOKER –Park Chan-wook
Rod Rhule
Hallo, You are doing good job writing this cinema posts. I am reading your articles for some time on this website and I can’t wait for more news about the Cannes festival.Thanks!