All the cinema docked in Cannes – El Universal (Venezuela)

Cannes .- Starting today, the Mecca of cinema will not be in California. For two weeks, Cannes, the city balneriario Blue Riviera in France will take place when the International Film Festival convene in their summer best known streets to the world of film and millions of curious around a single prize: Palme d’Or.

For actors or directors, Cannes is a milestone. Cate Blanchett, Matthew McConaughey, Michael Fassbender, Salma Hayek, Woody Allen or Gus Van Sant will go this year to the coastal town with the intention to enlarge the dream excited fantasy, impossible love, broken dreams and many more emotions.

Concern with something of fear, a lot of joy and even vertigo is what will probably live Natalie Portman, who debuted as a feature film director nothing less than taking the memories of Israeli writer Amos Oz to the big screen A tale of love and darkness . The only thing that will save the nerves of competition, as the tape is shown out of competition.

In the list of the official section only contains a Latin American representative: Mexican Michel Franco, who with Chronic , his fourth film, debuts in the premier section of the French event.

To Cannes also travels Australian Blanchett hand American director Todd Haynes, who attends a second time for the Palme d’Or with Carol , a story of a lesbian love the New York of the 50′s based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith The price of salt .

The drama is emerging as one of the most frequent genera in this 68th edition, as true The sea of ​​trees , in which Gus Van Sant takes Matthew McConaughey and Ken Watanabe to the forest called suicides; a story of survival which also acts Naomi Watts.

This issue highlights the deployment of European authors nourished, although many deals using international profile. Such is the case of the Italians Matteo Garrone and Paolo Sorrentino; the first with fancy Il racconto racconti dei , inspired by the fables of the writer of the sixteenth century Neapolitan Giambattista Basile, in which Salma Hayek plays a gothic fairy queen.

Sorrentino, meanwhile, returns to the festival with Youth , starring veteran Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel and Jane Fonda.

Until Mortetti Nanni, the third Italian in competition, has not resisted an international cartel. John Turturro corprotagoniza my mother , with the filmmaker could boost his second Palme d’Or.

In addition, the Australian Justin Kurzel take the throne of Scotland Michael Fassbender in Macbeth , a Shakespearean tragedy about ambition and power in which Marion Cotillard will give the reply.

But if overwhelming is the presence of Hollywood actors, so is the weight French films in competition with five films in competition, including two unique filmmakers competing for the Palme d’Or: Maiwenn ( Mon roi ) and Valérie Donzelli ( Marguerite et Julien )

In addition, another French- director, also will have the honor of raising the curtain in Cannes. Emmanuelle Bercot becomes the second woman to open the festival in its nearly 70-year history with drama social La tête haute , starring Catherine Deneuve.

And could not miss the traditional serving of Asian cinema represented by radical Hour Taiwanese Hsiao Hsien ( The assassin ), the poignant family stories focusing on Japanese Hirokazu Kore-eda ( Our Little Sister ) and criticism of Chinese society of Jia Zhang-ke ( Mountains May depart ).