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film as "a model of sophistication and timeless elegance" is one of the objectives of the Festival de Cannes , and therefore have chosen a picture of Faye Dunaway , taken by New York filmmaker Jerry Schatzberg in 1970 to illustrate the poster its 64 th edition.
be held from 11 to 22 May . 'Midnight in Paris' , the new Woody Allen film, will be responsible for opening the festival. With regard to the granting of awards, Robert De Niro is the President of the Jury, the same position that he will Emir Kusturica but in the Un Certain Regard. Bong Joon-Ho will so in the Jury of the Caméra d'Or, while Michel Gondry heads the short films and the Cinéfondation. Tons of prestige that bind also announced a tribute to the actor Jean-Paul Belmondo. policy slips on the red carpet
A last minute inclusion was announced, out of competition , the films In Film Nist, Jafar Panahi and Bé é Omid Didar, Mohammad Rasoulof, the two filmmakers who are political prisoners of the Iranian theocratic regime.
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From Cannes
The forecast for today and the next day on the Croisette indicates sunny, but with a political storm. The opening of this night's 64 th edition of the Festival de Cannes, with the screening out of competition for Midnight in Paris, the new Woody Allen movie - filmed on location in the City of Light and the first lady Carla Bruni in the cast- officer promised to give a bonus to the famous red carpet serves as the entrance to the Palais des Festivals. But Mme. Bruni-Sarkozy said yesterday that "personal reasons" will not be opening. Beyond this faltazo, which will surely have to do intricate protocol considerations, Cannes, the most important festival of international cinema calendar, and has secured a political storm with the inclusion, at the last moment, two films that came out Iran clandestinely. In Film is Nist (This is not a movie), Jafar Panahi, and Bé é Omid Didar (Goodbye), by Mohammad Rasoulof, the two filmmakers from last year are political prisoners of the theocratic regime in Tehran. Midnight in Paris (2011) - Official Trailer ... by Eklecty-City
Convicted in your country to six years in prison and banned for twenty, Panahi, which began here in Cannes, his career when White Balloon obtained in 1995 the House Gold for best first film, last week sent a message to the festival in which he said: "The fact of being alive and the dream of keeping intact the Iranian film encourages us to overcome Current restrictions are imposed on us ". His film, entitled suggestively This is not a movie , tells how, for months, Panahi awaits the verdict of the court of appeal. "Through the representation of a day of their daily lives, and another director Jafar Panahi Iranian Mojtaba Mirtahmasb (co-director of the documentary), we propose a vision of the current situation of Iranian cinema" , said in a statement the authorities the festival.
For its part, Bé é Omid Didar (Goodbye) tells the story of a young lawyer in Tehran seeking a visa to leave the country. The movie was filmed in secret last year. In a joint statement, the festival's general delegate Thierry Fremaux, and the chairman of the event, Gilles Jacob, said they "Mohammad Rasoulof's film and the conditions under which it has done, and this journal on Jafar Panahi days of his life working as a private artist, by their very existence, a resistance that affects the sentence. Being sent to Cannes is an act of courage and a wonderful artistic message. "
Although none of these two titles competing for the Palme d'Or (the Panahi will be in a special and the integrated Rasoulof Un Certain Regard), the presence in Cannes Iranian cinema returns to the center of the scene, after just three months before the movie Nader and Simin, a separation is the big winner of the edition 61 of the Berlinale. There, in addition, the empty chair with the name of Panahi, invited as the official jury, was a constant cry in solidarity with the filmmaker and a call to freedom of expression in Iran.
Beyond this highly political side, Cannes this year offers a rare combination of established names and newcomers in the major leagues. Argentine cinema is represented in the official selection by the presence on the jury of the actress and producer Martina Guzman and short I am so happy to compete for the Palme d'Or in its category, plus a large presence in other sections (see sidebar). But attention, once again, the fidelity of Cannes who has long been the French press calls "paid" big names who return again and again to compete for the grand prize in the world of cinema.
The Belgian brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, twice winners of the Palme d'Or, first by Rosetta (1999) and then for the Child (2005), returning this year with Le gaminauvélo on a boy abandoned by his father and handed over to social services. Another winner for the Palma, Italy's Nanni Moretti, winner of The Son's Room (2001), returns with Habemuspapam, farcical comedy about a priest (Michel Piccoli) who, having been consecrated pope suffers a spiritual crisis and does not dare to assume office. And the Danish director Lars von Trier's Palm d'Or 2000 for Dancer in the dark, now brings Melancholia, the strange story of the confrontation between two sisters (Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg) while a nearby planet threatens to hit Earth.
Among the "abonnés" who have had major awards at Cannes but still aspire to be the Palm, the Finn Aki Kaurismäki return to Le Havre (port promising title for the filmmaker working class par excellence), the Japanese director Naomi Kawase excelsa with no Tsuki Hanezu, Turk Nuri Bilge Ceylan with Once upon a time Anatolia and Pedro Almodóvar, of course, now try to fight for the top prize with the skin I live, another noir melodrama, this time on a plastic surgeon (Antonio Banderas) who seeks revenge on those who raped his daughter.
To balance the scales, there are few managers who come this year for the first time in official competition cannoise. Eight, to be precise: the French Maïwenn Le Besco, the Scottish Lynne Ramsay (women stomp on this issue), Nicolas Winding Refn Danish, Romanian Radu Mihaileanu, Japanese Takashi Miike, the Israeli Joseph Cedar, Austrian Markus Schleinzer (former assistant to Michael Haneke) Julia Leigh and Australia, the last two newcomers in the film (and this is rare in a less strict Cannes festival, where they usually pay dues to get to the competition). The French Alain Cavalier and Bertrand Bonello, meanwhile, are first-timers in the competition, but their presence has attracted the attention of local media, betting on other filmmakers there.
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Moreover, as in recent years, the presence of American film in competition is less than low: only The Tree of Life, by Terrence Malick, starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn, comes across the Atlantic. Although the Italian Paolo Sorrentino, which presents This Must Be the Place, filmed in the United States, also with Sean Penn in front of the cast. The big Hollywood machine in any case, find refuge outside competition, where will the next installment of Pirates of the Caribbean and The Beaver, directed by Jodie Foster and starring Mel Gibson.
Moreover, Thierry Fremaux, general delegate of Cannes and solely responsible for programming, has been strengthening in recent years the section Un Certain Regard (A Certain Regard), until it becomes almost parallel competition, with names that rival in prestige and importance to the official competition. The 2011 is no exception, to the point that the opening is in charge of Restless, Gus van Sant (Palme d'Or 2003 by Elephant) and the full program are many filmmakers who have gone through the official competition, as French Bruno Dumont and Robert Guédiguian, Korean Hong Sang-soo and Kim Ki-duk, and Eric Khoo Singapore. Beside them, Latin America will battle with films from Mexico, Brazil and Chile, cinema in recent times had been somewhat overshadowed by the presence of Argentine cinema in Cannes and this year seem to take revenge.
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