CANNES IS ON
The 79th Cannes Film Festival is officially underway in France. As is our habit here at MTFB, we will monitor the fest for the next two weeks looking at buzz, critical reception and ultimately prize winners to assess prospects for films to do the Cannes/Telluride Two Step.
As I have often mentioned, the link between the two film fests is quite strong with an average of 7ish or so films playing each year, first at Cannes and then later at Telluride.
I also tend to look at Cannes-ratings.org, Ioncinema and Screen daily for collections of critical responses. Last year nine films made the trans-Atlantic leap from France to Colorado. Here's where they stood critically at Cannes based on the Cannes-ratings.org site's 10 point system:
Sentimental Value 8.04
It Was Just an Accident 7.75
Pillion 7.30
Nouvelle Vague 7.23
Urchin 7.15
The Secret Agent 6.99
Mastermind 6.29
A Private Life 5.90
The History of Sound 5.31
It's too early in the fest to start keeping tabs on the critical reactions but we may be able to begin to evaluate some of that in Monday's post.
AWARDS WATCH AND TFF CLUES
Erik Anderson has begun his annual updating list of predictions for Oscar '27 and I'm going through them for possible TFF titles. among the films that he lists as Best Picture possibilities, these are the ones that look most Telluride-friendly:
Fjord
Wild Horse Nine
Fatherland
The Social Reckoning
All of a Sudden
Sense and Sensibility
Behemoth!
Being Heumann
Coward
Hope
Jack of Spades
Minotaur
Paper Tiger
Saturn Return
Sweetsick
No One Cares (Jesse Eisenberg musical)
https://awardswatch.com/2027-oscar-predictions-best-picture-and-best-director-may/
BITTER CHRISTMAS TEASER AND POSTER
Pedro Almodovar's Bitter Christmas is playing Cannes...and could be a Telluride player as well. In conjunction with its bow at Cannes, there is a poster and a teaser. Here they be:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PgPkSpuYpY&t=2s
PICS FROM POSSIBLES FROM CANNES:
***From Vanity Fair: Paper Tiger:
***From The Hollywood Reporter: Coward:
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