Cannes’ Film Festival program
In the main competition will participate "Skin, in which I live" (La piel que habito) by Pedro Almodovar, Terrence Malick's "Tree of Life", "Melancholia" by Lars von Trier, "Le Gamin au vélo" Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, as well as new tapes of Aki Kaurismaki and Takashi Miike. Totally, at the competition will participate 19 films.
New paintings by Lars von Trier and Terrence Malick's don’t need special introduction: "Melancholia" and "The Tree of Life" film fans have been waiting for a long time.
Let’s look at other 17 films.
Pedro Almodovar film "The skin in which I live" will be on Croisette earlier than at home in Spain. Program director at the Cannes Film Festival Thierry Fremaux said that this happens first with the master film. Hero - a plastic surgeon in the performance of Antonio Banderas - finds the rapist of his daughter and changes his sex.
Italian Nanni Moretti, winner of the "Golden Palm" for his drama "Son's room" will present the painting "We have a Pope," in which Michel Piccoli plays the pope, who is trying to cope with its responsibilities.
John C Reilly and Tilda Swinton - the stars of Englishwoman Lynne Ramsay drama "We need to talk about Kevin". Woman decides to have a baby, but no idea what price she pays for the love of his son: the boy will make a real massacre at the school.
Another female director in the competition (a total of four) - Japanese Naomi Kawase. In 2007, she took the Grand Prix at Cannes for the tape "Forest of Sorrow". This year, it brings the film "Hanezu no Tsuki".
Compatriot of Naomi Takashi Miike has recently participated in the competition at the Venice festival, but he took another picture. "Seppuku" - a remake of Masaki Kobayashi movie in 1962. The film was shot in 3D.
Turkish Nuri Bilge Ceylan won the award for Best Director at Cannes for film "Three Monkeys", and in 2003 his "Distant" has earned the Grand Prix of the jury. His new film "Once Upon A Time in Anatolia" about a doctor who lives in the steppes of Anatolia. In the starring role - actor, director and screenwriter Yilmaz Erdogan.
"Le Gamin au vélo" from Dardenne brothers ("The Silence of Lorna," "Rosetta") tell us the story of 12 year old boy who wants to find his father, leaving him in an orphanage. Quite by chance he meets Samantha (Cecile de France), barbershop owner who allows the boy to stay with her on weekends.
Comedy "Le Havre" by Finn Aki Kaurismaki - the second film of director, which has been filmed in French. Here one of the main characters is also a child - an African boy who has been tried to save by shoe shiner. Action develops in the French city of Le Havre - hence the name.
Winner of Jury Prize at the Cannes Festival for the movie "Il divo" Italian director Paolo Sorrentino will present his new work "Wherever you were." Sean Penn plays a rock musician, whose glory days are already numbered. He is 50, he lives on the royalties for his songs. His father's death brings the hero in New York. It turns out that his father wanted all his life to avenge his humiliation, and rocker goes in search of the man in the Nazi past.