The Cannes Film Festival gets underway this week with 22 films in competition. Here's a look at each one. All info and pictures courtesy: http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en.html
MOONRISE KINGDOM
Directed by : Wes ANDERSON
Country: USA
Year: 2012
Duration: 93.00 minutes
SYNOPSIS
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two 12-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore - and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in every which way.
CREDITS
Wes ANDERSON - Director
Wes ANDERSON - Screenplay
Roman COPPOLA - Screenplay
Robert YEOMAN ASC - Cinematography
Adam STOCKHAUSEN - Set Designer
Alexandre DESPLAT - Music
ACTORS
Bruce WILLIS - CAPTAIN SHARP
Edward NORTON - SCOUT MASTER WARD
Bill MURRAY - MR. BISHOP
Frances MCDORMAND - MRS. BISHOP
Tilda SWINTON - SOCIAL SERVICES
Jason SCHWARTZMAN - COUSIN BEN
Bob BALABAN - The narrator
Jared GILMAN - SAM
Kara HAYWARD - SUZY
MUD
Directed by : Jeff NICHOLS
Country: USA
Year: 2012
Duration: 130.00 minutes
SYNOPSIS
Mud is an adventure about two boys, Ellis and his friend Neckbone, who find a man named Mud hiding out on an island in the Mississippi. Mud describes fantastic scenarios - he killed a man in Texas and vengeful bounty hunters are coming to get him. He says he is planning to meet and escape with the love of his life, Juniper, who is waiting for him in town. Skeptical but intrigued, Ellis and Neckbone agree to help him. It isn’t long until Mud’s visions come true and their small town is besieged by a beautiful girl with a line of bounty hunters in tow.
CREDITS
Jeff NICHOLS - Director
Jeff NICHOLS - Screenplay
Adam STONES - Cinematography
David WINGO - Music
Julie MONROE - Film Editor
Ethan ANDRUS - Sound
ACTORS
Matthew MCCONAUGHEY - MUD
Reese WHITHERSPOON - JUNIPER
Tye SHERIDAN - ELLIS
Jacob LOFLAND - NECKBONE
Sam SHEPARD - TOM BLANKENSHIP
Ray MCKINNON - SENIOR
Sarah PAULSON - MARY LEE
Michael SHANNON - GALEN
ON THE ROAD
Directed by : Walter SALLES
Country: FRANCE, BRAZIL
Year: 2012
Duration: 137.00 minutes
SYNOPSIS
Just after his father’s death, Sal Paradise, an aspiring New York writer, meets Dean Moriarty, a devastatingly charming ex-con, married to the very liberated and seductive Marylou. Sal and Dean bond instantly. Determined not to get locked in to a constricted life, the two friends cut their ties and take to the road with Marylou. Thirsting for freedom, the three young people head off in search of the world, of other encounters, and of themselves.
CREDITS
Walter SALLES - Director
Jose RIVERA - Screenplay
Eric GAUTIER - AFC - Cinematography
Carlos CONTI - Set Designer
Gustavo SANTAOLALLA - Music
François GEDIGIER - Film Editor
ACTORS
Garrett HEDLUND - Dean Moriarty
Sam RILEY - Sal Paradise
Kristen STEWART - Marylou
Amy ADAMS - Jane Lee
Tom STURRIDGE - Carlo Marx
Elisabeth MOSS - Galatea Dunkel
Kirsten DUNST - Camille
Viggo MORTENSEN - Old Bull Lee
PARADIES: LIEBE
Directed by : Ulrich SEIDL
Country: AUSTRIA, GERMANY, FRANCE
Year: 2012
Duration: 120.00 minutes
SYNOPSIS
On Kenya’s beaches they are known as "sugar mamas": European women who seek out African boys selling love to earn a living. Teresa, a 50-year-old Austrian woman, travels to this vacation paradise. "PARADISE: Love" tells of older women and young men, of Europe and Africa, and of the exploited, who end up exploiting others. Ulrich Seidl’s film is the first in his PARADISE-Trilogy about three women, three vacations and three stories of the longing to find happiness today.
CREDITS
Ulrich SEIDL - Director
Veronika FRANZ - Screenplay
Ulrich SEIDL - Screenplay
Ed LACHMAN - Cinematography
Wolfgang THALER - Cinematography
Andreas DONHAUSER - Set Designer
Maribel MARTIN - Set Designer
Christof SCHERTENLEIB - Film Editor
Ekkehart BAUMUNG - Sound
ACTORS
Margarethe TIESEL - Teresa
Peter KAZUNGU - Munga
Inge MAUX - Teresa's friend
POST TENEBRAS LUX
Directed by : Carlos REYGADAS
Country: MEXICO, FRANCE, GERMANY, NETHERLANDS
Year: 2012
Duration: 120.00 minutes
SYNOPSIS
Juan and his urban family live in the Mexican countryside, where they enjoy and suffer a world apart. And nobody knows if these two worlds are complementary or if they strive to eliminate one another.
CREDITS
Carlos REYGADAS - Director
Carlos REYGADAS - Screenplay
Alexis ZABE - Cinematography
Nohemi GONZALEZ - Set Designer
Natalia LOPEZ - Film Editor
Gilles LAURENT - Sound
ACTORS
Adolfo JIMENEZ CASTRO
Nathalia ACEVEDO
Willebaldo TORRES
Rut REYGADAS
Eleazar REYGADAS
REALITY
Directed by : Matteo GARRONE
Country: ITALY, FRANCE
Year: 2012
Duration: 115.00 minutes
SYNOPSIS
Luciano is a Neapolitan fishmonger who supplements his modest income by pulling off little scams together with his wife Maria. A likeable, entertaining guy, Luciano never misses an opportunity to perform for his customers and countless relatives. One day his family urge him to try out for Big Brother. In chasing this dream his perception of reality begins to change.
CREDITS
Matteo GARRONE - Director
Maurizio BRAUCCI - Screenplay
Ugo CHITI - Screenplay
Matteo GARRONE - Screenplay
Massimo GAUDIOSO - Screenplay
Marco ONORATO - Cinematography
Paolo BONFINI - Set Designer
Alexandre DESPLAT - Music
Marco SPOLETINI - Film Editor
ACTORS
Aniello ARENA - Luciano
Loredana SIMIOLI - Maria
Nando PAONE - Michele
Raffele FERRANTE - Enzo
THE ANGELS' SHARE
Directed by : Ken LOACH
Country: UNITED KINGDOM, FRANCE, BELGIUM, ITALY
Year: 2012
Duration: 106.00 minutes
SYNOPSIS
A bittersweet comedy about a Glasgow boy locked in a family feud who just wants a way out. When Robbie sneaks into the maternity hospital to visit his young girlfriend Leonie and hold his newborn son Luke for the first time, he is overwhelmed. He swears that Luke will not lead the same stricken life he has led.
On community service Robbie meets Rhino, Albert and Mo for whom, like him, work is little more than a distant dream. Little did Robbie imagine that turning to drink might change their lives - not cheap fortified wine, but the best malt whiskies in the world. What will it be for Robbie? More violence and vendettas or a new future with 'Uisge Beatha,' the 'Water of Life'? Only the angels know...
CREDITS
Ken LOACH - Director
Paul LAVERTY - Screenplay
Robbie RYAN - Cinematography
Fergus CLEGG - Set Designer
George FENTON - Music
Jonathan MORRIS - Film Editor
Ray BECKETT - Sound
ACTORS
Paul BANNIGAN - Robbie
John HENSHAW - Harry
Gary MAITLAND - Albert
Jasmin RIGGINS - Mo
William RUANE - Rhino
Roger ALLAM - Thaddeus
Siobhan REILLY - Leonie
THE PAPERBOY
Directed by : Lee DANIELS
Country: USA
Year: 2012
Duration: 107.00 minutes
SYNOPSIS
The story of a young man who returns to his small Florida home town to help his reporter brother uncover the truth about a man on death row, who might have been wrongly convicted. In the process, he falls for the convict’s lover. Conflict, danger, deceit, seduction and betrayal ensue.
CREDITS
Lee DANIELS - Director
Lee DANIELS - Screenplay
Pete DEXTER - Screenplay
Pete DEXTER - Based on the novel by
Roberto SCHAEFER ASC - Cinematography
Daniel T. DORRANCE - Set Designer
Mario GRIGOROV - Music
Joe KLOTZ - Film Editor
ACTORS
Matthew MCCONAUGHEY - Ward Jansen
Zac EFRON - Jack Jansen
David OYELOWO - Yardley Acheman
Macy GRAY - Anita
John CUSACK - Hillary Van Wetter
Nicole KIDMAN - Charlotte Bless
V TUMANE (IN THE FOG)
Directed by : Sergei LOZNITSA
Country: GERMANY, NETHERLANDS, LATVIA, RUSSIA
Year: 2012
Duration: 127.00 minutes
SYNOPSIS
Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation, and local partisans are fighting a brutal resistance campaign.
A train is derailed not far from the village, where Sushenya, a rail worker, lives with his family. Innocent Sushenya is arrested with a group of saboteurs, but the German officer makes a decision not to hang him with the others and sets him free. Rumours of Sushenya’s treason spread quickly, and partisans Burov and Voitik arrive from the forest to get revenge.
As the partisans lead their victim through the forest, they are ambushed, and Sushenya finds himself one-to-one with his wounded enemy.
Deep in an ancient forest, where there are neither friends nor enemies, and where the line between treason and heroism disappears, Sushenya is forced to make a moral choice under immoral circumstances.
CREDITS
Sergei LOZNITSA - Director
Sergei LOZNITSA - Screenplay
Oleg MUTU - Cinematography
Kirill SHUVALOV - Set Designer
Danielius KOKANAUSKIS - Film Editor
Vladimir GOLOVNITSKI - Sound
ACTORS
Vladimir SVIRSKI - Souchénia
Vlad ABASHIN - Bourov
Sergeï KOLESOV - Voïtik
Vlad IVANOV - Le Commandant en chef
Julia PERESILD - Anelia
Nikita PERETOMOVS - Gricha
Nadezhda MARKINA - La mère de Bourov
Directed by : Alain RESNAIS
Country: FRANCE, GERMANY
Year: 2012
Duration: 115.00 minutes
SYNOPSIS
From beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d’Anthac gathers together all his friends who have appeared over the years in his play "Eurydice". These actors watch a recording of the work performed by a young acting company, La Compagnie de la Colombe. Do love, life, death and love after death still have any place on a theater stage? It’s up to them to decide. And the surprises have only just begun...
CREDITS
Alain RESNAIS - Director
Laurent HERBIET - Screenplay
Alex RÉVAL - Screenplay
Eric GAUTIER - Cinematography
Jacques SAULNIER - Set Designer
Mark SNOW - Music
Hervé DE LUZE - Film Editor
Jean-Pierre DURET - Sound
Gérard HARDY - Sound
Gérard LAMPS - Sound
ACTORS
Sabine AZÉMA
Pierre ARDITI
Anne CONSIGNY
Lambert WILSON
5 comments:
On the Road is finally a movie?! I remember reading about a guy who went to a casting call maybe 15 years ago for Coppola, who was going to do the movie.
Mud looks interesting too. I used to live on the Mississippi in Hannibal, MO, Mark Twain's hometown.
Yep after many false starts, On The Road is finally a movie. Hopefully it will be worth the wait.
Small world! ShuZin, who supplies reviews periodically, also hails from Hannibal. You're both fine representatives of the Show-Me-State.
I'm not FROM Missouri, I just lived there for awhile. I'm FROM Kansas, and live here now, thank God. I kid, Missouri was nice too.
So ShuZin is from Hannibal? That's wild.
It is true, Retro! I am a real Hannibalian! Small world, and in it, the real one, I am a Pettibone. Can you guess my first name? LOL!!! Dark secret illuminated)))) Remember Turtle Island? Riverview Park?
Bunchie - This is a perfectly delicious partial listing of Cannes offerings, but where the heck is my favorite...THE DICTATOR, with Sasha Baron Cohen? I think we diversity-loving, politically correct film lovers could use a dose of really tasteless and offensive humor...I am just catching up with BRUNO))))))xo, shoes
Shuz: I don't think The Dictator was a selection, although that hasn't stopped Mr. Cohen from making a spectacle of himself at the festival :)
I'll have to visit Hannibal someday. I drove through St. Louis once on I-64. I think they make beer there or something.
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