CANNES OPENS THIS WEEK
I've been focused on this week for some months now as the 70th Cannes Film Festival opens Wednesday with the screening of Arnaud Desplechin's Ismael's Ghosts starring Marion Cotillard, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Mathieu Almaric.
As regular readers know, we'll almost certainly hear about films that will end up playing Telluride after their bow at Cannes. That crossover usually averages 7-8 films per year. The tough part is trying to figure out what those films will be. In addition to looking at directors and distributors with a Telluride history, during Cannes it's usually a good idea to pay attention to the critical response as well as the films that ultimately win prizes at the end of the fest.
That doesn't mean that the Palme d'Or winner always makes it to southwest Colorado. As a matter of fact, the Palme winner is a hot or miss T-ride proposition. The last Palme winner to play Telluride was 2013's Blue is the Warmest Color. Amour followed the same path the year before. So it's best to pay attention to awards at all levels in the main competition category as well as in the other sections of the fest.
As I have for the past few years, I'll be keeping an eye on and posting the critical assessment as the fest progresses.
If you want to know when films are screening, here is the link to the official schedule from the Cannes website.
Additionally, I have linked more pre-Cannes analysis. Here's Guy Lodge's assessment of the films playing Cannes that he did for Variety.
I also have included this overview of the fest from Indiewire which highlights 22 films that they "want to see" including Happy End, Ismael's Ghosts, Loveless, The Meyerowitz Stories, You Were Never Really Here and Wonderstruck.
CANNES TRAILERS, TEASERS AND CLIPS
The onslaught of media about Cannes films has picked, as you might expect, as we get closer to the festival. As a result, we continue to get looks at some of the films that seem the best bets, at least at this point to make the trans-Atlantic journey from France to the San Juans.
Perhaps the Cannes film I am most excited about that also seems to me to be an excellent T-ride prospect is Todd Haynes' Wonderstruck which made a substantial splash this week with a clip from the film which is here via YouTube:
We also saw our first look at a poster for the film:
There was a good deal of coverage of the Wonderstruck images and I have linked a sample of that here from:
We were also treated to a trailer for Francios Ozon's L'amant Double. Here it is from YouTube:
And coverage for the releases from The Film Stage.
And finally, here we have a couple of clips from the opening night film, Ismael's Ghosts that you can peruse. Here's clip #1 from Facebook.
and here's clip #2 from Facebook as well.
And the story from The Playlist.
LOST IN PARIS TRAILER
Some films that everyone seems to have at the end of each festival are those that you had on a list that, for whatever reason, you didn't get to. For most of us, it's simply a matter of running out of time before you have to head back to the real world.
One of those films for me this last year was Lost in Paris and now that I've seen the trailer, I really wished I had traded it off for maybe a couple of films I did see. Hindsight and 20/20.
And maybe the film isn't as entertaining as the trailer makes it seem but the trailer is promising. Here it is via YouTube:
The film has no U.S. release date as yet but has played a number of other U.S. film festivals in addition to Telluride. Oscilloscope is the film's distributor.
That's your MTFB for Monday, May 15, 2017. Check back for more on Thursday.
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