Cannes Film Festival 2012 starts this week and goes on for 11 glamour filled days!
Cannes Film Festival
Cannes Festival, after 65 years, is still a mecca for film lovers and critics because of the high calibre of films chosen. In addition to the high quality films chosen, it another event for celebrities to get glammed up to attend the screenings.
With previous attendees including Grace Kelly to Pamela Anderson it is a chance for actresses to get out their glitzy dresses, best jewellery and fabulous hair accessories to wow the paparazzi. But I’m sure our friends over at Gossip Fever will cover all the glitz and glamour at the event! So enough of them, what about the film choices?
Here is a full list of all the contenders in this years awards:
Opening Night
Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson
In Competition
Amour, Michael Haneke
The Angels’ Share, Ken Loach
Baad el mawkeaa, Yousry Nasrallah
Beyond the Hills, Cristian Mungiu
Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg
Holy Motors, Leos Carax
The Hunt, Thomas Vinterberg
Killing Them Softly, Andrew Dominik
In Another Country, Hong Sang-soo
In the Fog, Sergei Loznitsa
Lawless, John Hillcoat
Like Someone in Love, Abbas Kiarostami
Mud, Jeff Nichols
On the Road, Walter Salles
The Paperboy, Lee Daniels
Paradies: Liebe, Ulrich Seidl
Post tenebras lux, Carlos Reygadas
Reality, Matteo Garrone
Rust and Bone, Jacques Audiard
Taste of Money, Im Sang-soo
You Haven’t Seen Anything Yet, Alain Resnais
Out of Competition
Hemingway & Gellhorn, Philip Kaufman
Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted, Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, Conrad Vernon
Me and You, Bernardo Bertolucci
Un Certain Regard
7 Days in Havana, Benicio del Toro, Pablo Trapero, Julio Medem, Elia Suleiman, Juan Carlos Tabio, Gaspar Noe, Laurent Cantet
11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate, Koji Wakamatsu
Antiviral, Brandon Cronenberg
Beasts of the Southern Wild, Benh Zeitlin
Confession of a Child of the Century, Sylvie Verheyde
Despues de Lucia, Michel Franco
La Pirogue, Moussa Toure
La Playa, Juan Andres Arango
Laurence Anyways, Xavier Dolan
Le grand soir, Benoit Delepine, Gustave Kervern
Les Chevaux de Dieu, Nabil Ayouch
Loving Without Reason, Joachim Lafosse
Miss Lovely, Ashim Ahluwalia
Mystery, Lou Ye
Student, Darezhan Omirbayev
Trois mondes, Catherine Corsini
White Elephant, Pablo Trapero
Midnight Screenings
Dario Argento’s Dracula, Dario Argento
The Legend of Love & Sincerity, Japan, Takashi Miike
Special Screenings
A musica segundo, Tom Jobim, Nelson Pereira Dos Santos
The Central Park Five, Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon
Der Mull im Garten Eden, Fatih Akin
Journal de France, Claudine Nougaret, Raymond Depardon
Les Invisibles, Sebastien Lifshitz
Mekong Hotel, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir, Laurent Bouzereau
Villegas, Gonzalo Tobal
Closing Night Film
Therese D, Claude Miller
This year has come under some scrutiny by feminist group Le Barbe because of the lack of female directors. They are so passionate about it that they have written an article for Le Monde and created a petition to increase the awareness of women in the film industry and that their voices matter. The discussions continue…
The 2012 Cannes Film Festival begins May 16 and will run through May 27 along the French Riviera.
Who would you like to see win? Which films have you seen or want to see? Let us know…
