The race for the Palme d’Or was never an easy game, but the 69th Cannes Film Festival opens Wednesday puts at stake a particularly competitive selection of the best filmmakers in the world.
in yellow tones, the official poster of the event which reproduces an image of the Villa Malaparte on Capri, taken from “contempt” (1963) by Jean-Luc Godard, was replicated all over Cannes and giant version of the facade of the Palace Festivals.
the Mediterranean seaside resort put the finishing touches to the security device with hundreds of police, a team of atificieros and 400 private security agents, according to the French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, who after the 2015 bombings in Paris spoke of “a higher level of risk than ever.”
from the Irish Ken Loach, almost octogenarian, the “wunderkind” Canadian Xavier Dolan 27 -both worshiped in Cannes- the cream of the seventh art has an appointment until May 22 for two weeks of better film.
of the five continents arrived since early this year thousand 869 films in all, the artistic director Thierry Fremaux and his assistants saw frantic march to select the 21 feature films facing on Thursday the stretch.
the event opened with the screening Wednesday night outside competition, “Café Society”, the last of Woody Allen, Kristen Stewart, on the golden age of Hollywood.
All the contestants have already been in Cannes but not necessarily entered the red carpet of the official selection, such as Brazilian Kleber Mendonça Filho, one excrítico who decided to get rolling and presented a short in 2005.
His second feature “Aquarius” starring Sonia Braga in the role of a retired resisting the threatening changes that surround it is the only film Latin American competition.
PALMA iN HONOR Léaud
Some already won the Oscar and covet la Palma, like the Iranian Asghar Farhadi ( ” separation “), which brings” the Salesman, “the story of two actors whose relationship is poisoned during her portrayal of Arthur Miller’s” Death of a Salesman “.
Other instead won the Palma Gold even twice. Belgian brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne cherish the hope of a third medal with “La inconnue fille” the story of a young doctor confronted the problem of guilt
also guilt is invisible protagonist –the a mother confronted with what left to do on your hija– in “Juliet” by Pedro Almodovar, the Spanish fifth attempt to seize de la Palma, but said he can live without it.
the most assiduous suitor –diez intentos– American Jim Jarmusch is the son of a festival that saw him come to fame in 1984 with a Golden Camera “Stranger than paradise”. Presents this time “Paterson” with Adam Driver in the role of a driver poet bus.
La Palma will be awarded by a jury chaired by Australian George Miller and made up of four men and four women .
the organizers announced that the Palme honor of this 69th edition will reward the trajectory of the French Jean-Pierre Léaud, fetish actor François Tuffaut and star of “the death of Louis XIV” the Spanish Albert Serra.
Leaud, 71, plays the king setting sun in the movie Serra to be released on May 19 in a special session of the official program.
WOMEN’S MAIN CHARACTER
Many point as hallmark of this edition a strong female presence in all sections of the festival beyond counting -more genres in movies whose theme carteleras– gives special importance to women.
on the Dutch Paul Verhoeven “Elle”, a story of female restatement to a violent situation brings back to the red carpet to the most assiduous actress of Cannes, the French Isabelle Huppert.
“the neo demon”, Danish Nicolas Winding Refn present a glamorous vampire genre around Elle Fanning variant as a model whose beauty is coveted by other women in Los Angeles.
French Nicole Garcia will present “From the land of the moon” and the German Maren Ade, revealed seven years ago at the Berlinale, “Toni Erdmann”.
the South Korean Park Chan-Wook explores other labyrinths of the feminine universe with “the maidmen” in a complex intrigue thriller spiced with cruelty, lesbian attraction, betrayal and madness.
also be in Cannes out of competition Jodie Foster with “Money Monster”, the ” great natured giant “that Steven Spielberg did with Disney, and” Mano de Piedra “the Venezuelan Jonathan Jakubowicz, with Robert de Niro.
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