70th Edition of the Cannes Film Festival
By Moira Sullivan
The 70th Edition of the Cannes Film Festival runs from May 17 to 28 with Spanish director Pedro Almodovar presiding as President of the Jury of the Official selection. Also noteworthy is the Mistress of Ceremonies for the event, a gender title which sounds unworthy of Italian actress Monica Bellucci.
The 70th Edition of the Cannes Film Festival runs from May 17 to 28 with Spanish director Pedro Almodovar presiding as President of the Jury of the Official selection. Also noteworthy is the Mistress of Ceremonies for the event, a gender title which sounds unworthy of Italian actress Monica Bellucci.
The festival poster this year is Italian actress Claudio
Cardinale dancing on the rooftops of Rome in 1959. Already stirring controversy
is the airbrushing of the poster that diminished the waist and thighs of the
actress. This didn’t bother Cardinale who identifies as a feminist and said
that she is proud of her body image in which she dances film-- this is just a
representation she said Presiding over the Camera d’or jury as president for a
director's first work jury is Sandrine Kiberlain French actress who has worked
with the French director Laetitia Masson where she won the most promising
actress at the 1995 French Cesar wards and in 2013 and 2014 she won Cesars for
the best actress.
In the official selection three women are among the 22 directors
– Sofia Coppola The Beguiled, Lynn Ramsey, You Were Never Really Here, and
Naomi Kawase Hikari (Radiance). All three directors have been invited with
their films previously into the official selection.
Coppola's film stars Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning Nicole
Kidman, and Colin Farrell. Set during the civil War in Virginia in 1864, a
wounded Union officer arrives at a Confederate girls school and charms all the women.
The film has previously been made by Don Siegel in 1971 starring Clint Eastwood
as the soldier, which was not a particularly noteworthy film but Coppola must
have her reasons for doing it again, as we shall see.
Naomi Kawase was nominated for the Palme d’or in 2014 for
Still the Water, and this year Hikari is about a photographer with a wandering eye
who meets a socially reclusive woman.
Lynn Ramsey, You Were Never Really Here Stars Joaquin
Phoenix as a war veteran who tries to stop a young girl from becoming a victim of
a sex trafficking ring.
Male veteran directors to Cannes this year include Michael
Haneke, Le Redoutable,
Other sections of the festival include Un Certain Regard whose jury is presided over by president Marthe Keller Swiss actress, the director’s fortnight, and a special section called ACID –the association of independent filmmakers that has been created to give visibility to lesser known directors in hopes of theatrical distribution.
Other sections of the festival include Un Certain Regard whose jury is presided over by president Marthe Keller Swiss actress, the director’s fortnight, and a special section called ACID –the association of independent filmmakers that has been created to give visibility to lesser known directors in hopes of theatrical distribution.
In a festival that is usually 70% men, it is with great
anticipation that French director Agnès Varda will present a new film, Visages
Villages out of competition. Another special event with be Vanessa Redgrave's directorial debut Sea Sorrow on the refugee crisis.
Special 70-year anniversary events include: Jane Campion and Ariel Kleiman’s Top Of The Lake: China Girl, The
Second Season starring Elizabeth Moss, and also Nicole Kidman, the late Abbas
Kiarostami's 24 Frames, and David Lynch’s Twin Peaks. Also highly anticipated is
Kristen Stewart’s short film Come Swim that already debuted at Sundance.
© 2017 - Moira Sullivan - Air Date: 04/19/17
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