Sean Penn...yes, it IS Sean Penn in Paolo Sorrentino's "This Must Be the Place"
The Cannes Film Festival announced its lineup Thursday. Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris" will open that festival on May 11. Here's the lineup via Hollywood.com:
Opening Film Midnight in Paris - Woody Allen
Competition
The Skin I Live In - Pedro Almodovar
House of Tolerance - Bertrand Bonello
Pater - Alain Cavalier
Footnote - Joseph Cedar
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia - Nuri Bilge
Ceylan Le Gamin au Velo - Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Le Havre - Aki Kaurismaki Hanezu
No Tsuki - Naomi Kawase
Sleeping Beauty - Julia Leigh
Poliss - Maiwenn
The Tree of Life - Terrence Malick
La Source des Femmes - Radu Mihaileanu
Hara-kiri: Death of a Samurai - Takashi Miike
We Have a Pope - Nanni Moretti
We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lynne Ramsay
Michael - Markus Schleinzer
This Must Be the Place - Paolo Sorrentino
Melancholia - Lars Von Trier
Drive - Nicolas Winding Refn
Out of Competition
The Conquest - Xavier Durringer
The Beaver - Jodie Foster
The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides - Rob Marshall
Un Certain Regard
Restless - Gus Van Sant (opening film)
The Hunter “ Bakur Bakuradeze
Halt auf freier Strecke - Andreas Dresen
Hors Satan - Bruno Dumont
Martha Marcy May Marlene - Sean Durkin
The Snows of Kilamanjaro - Robert Guedeguian
Skoonheid - Oliver Hermanus
The Day He Arrives - Hong Sang-soo
Bonsai - Cristian Jimenez
Tatsumi - Eric Koo Arirang - Kim Ki-duk
Where Do We Go Now? - Nadine Labaki
Loverboy - Catalin Mitulescu
Yellow Sea - Na Hong-jin
Miss Bala – Gerardo Naranjo Trabalhar
Cansa - Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra
L’Exercice de l’Etat - Pierre Schoeller
Toomelah - Ivan Sen
Oslo, August 31 - Joachim Trier
Midnight Screenings Wu Xia - Chan Peter Ho-Sun
Dias de Gracia - dir. Tekla Taidelli
Special Screenings Labrador - Frederikke Aspock
Le Maitre des Forges de l’Enfer - Rithy Panh
Michel Petrucciani - Michael Radford
Tous Au Larzac - Christian Rouaud
What didn't make it (that had been rumored and that we thought were pretty good T-ride possibles...) included “Chicken with Plums” from Persepolis creators Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, “The Descendants” from Alexander Payne and “The Exchange” from Eran Kolirin. This doesn’t mean that these films won’t be in Telluride, but Cannes is usually a pretty good connection for about half a dozen films at Telluride each year.
Perhaps getting a boost from the Cannes announcement would be past Telluride tributees, The Dardennes and their film “Le Gamin au Velo” (Set Me Free). Pedro Almodovar’s “The Skin I Live In” which was reported in and out and back in for Cannes and finally ended up in the competition category. Maybe Gus Van Sant’s inclusion with “Restless” as the opener for the Un Certain Regard section of the Festival portends a return to Telluride for the director. He has been there before with “Elephant” in 2003. It’s possible that we could see Lars Von Trier’s “Melancholia” (he was at TFF #23 with “Breaking the Waves” in 1996 and “Dogville” in 2003).
Among the other films chosen for Cannes, intuition suggests that we might also see: “We Have a Pope’” “We Need to Talk About Kevin,” and “This Must be the Place,” and perhaps the Carey Mulligan starrer “Drive.”
In the last five festivals the Cannes-Telluride connection has been strong and consistent with an average of half a dozen films playing in France in May and then again in Telluride in September.
In 2010 the cross-pollination included: “Of Gods and Men,” “Biutiful,” “Poetry,” “Another Year,” “The Princess of Montpensier,” “Tamara Drewe,” “Carlos, “and “Inside Job.”
In 2009: “Bright Star,” “A Prophet,” “The White Ribbon, “Vincere,” and “Fish Tank.”
In 2008: “24 City,” “Gomorra,” “Waltz with Bashir,” “The Good, The Bad and The Weird,” “O’ Horten,” and “Tulpan.”
In 2007: “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,” “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” “Persepolis,” “Terror’s Advocate” and “The Band’s Visit.”
In 2006: “Volver,” “Babel,” and “Ten Canoes.”
Almost certainly we'll see the same situation occur this year.
