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04.19.07
The 2007 Cannes Line-up.
Look at it, love it and despair!
In Competition
"My Blueberry Nights," directed by Wong Kar-Wai (Opening night film)
"Auf Der Anderen Siete," directed by Fatih Akin
"Un Vielle Maitresse," directed by Catherine Breillat
"No Country For Old Men," directed by Joel & Ethan Coen
"Zodiac," directed by David Fincher
"We Own The Night," directed by James Gray
"Les Chansons D'Amour," directed by Christophe Honoré
"Mogari No Mori," directed by Naomi Kawase
"Breath," directed by Kim Ki Duk
"Promise Me This," directed by Emir Kusturica
"Secret Sunshine," directed by Lee Chang-dong
"4 Luni, 3 Saptamini Si 2 Zile," directed by Cristian Mungiu
"Tehilim," directed by Raphael Nadjari
"Stellet Licht," directed by Carlos Reygadas
"Persepolis," directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
"Le Scaphandre et le Papillon," directed by Julian Schnabel
"Import Export," directed by Ulrich Seidl
"Alexandra," directed by Alexandre Sokourov
"Death Proof," directed by Quentin Tarantino
"The Man From London," directed by Béla Tarr
"Paranoid Park," directed by Gus Van Sant
"Izgnanie" (The Banishment), directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev
Out of Competition
"The Age of Darkness," directed by Denys Arcand (Closing night film)
"Sicko," directed by Michael Moore
"Ocean's Thirteen," directed by Steven Soderbergh
"A Mighty Heart," directed by Michael Winterbottom
More, including the Un Certain Regard lineup (which contains Harmony Korine's "Mister Lonely") here at indieWIRE.
If we may pause for some obligatory whining — no Hou Hsiao-Hsien? No Todd Haynes? No Paul Thomas Anderson? We're most surprised about the absence of Hou's "The Red Balloon," which last we saw was set for a May release in France and so must, one would think, be finished. Four out of Hou's last five films premiered at Cannes. Sometimes, we need to learn to read more carefully and not be in such a hurry — it's in Un Certain Regard. Not quite like being in competition, but not so shabby.
Among the most exciting titles that are in competition are Akin's narrative follow-up to his smashing 2004 bruise-eyed romance "Head-On"; the Coen brothers' Cormac McCarthy adaptation; the latest provocation from Breillat (this one features Asia Argento, which seems an appropriate pairing); the new Reygadas; the new Sokourov; the new Tarr (starring Tilda Swinton!); and who isn't curious about what Tarantino's done to flesh out "Death Proof"? And of course there's "My Blueberry Nights" — what will Wong Kar Wai's America look like?
We won't be going to Cannes this year, but the Cannes Cam will be returning on IFC.com, so it'll be just like being there. Sans actual filmgoing.
