Compiled by Paul Lindsell
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her home and daughter. When Otavio, her husband, is suddenly fired, work relations between these three characters change, and disturbing occurrences start to threaten Helena’s business. Un Certain Regard, press screening Salle Debussy
OFFSIDE (HORS JEU) (Iran) Drama, 88mins. Dir: Jafar Panahi. Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette
3:00PM
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN
FESTIVAL & PRESS 8:30AM
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN
(UK, US) Drama, 110mins. Dir: Lynne Ramsay. Key cast: Tilda Swinton, John C Reilly, Ezra Miller. Eva puts her ambitions and career aside to give birth to Kevin. The relationship between mother and son is
SCREENINGS 8:30AM
FESTIVAL & PRESS
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN See box, above
10:00AM
THE FAIRY (LA FEE) (France, Belgium) Drama, 94mins. Dir: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy, Philippe Martz. Dom works the night shift in a small hotel near the industrial sea port of Le Havre. One night, Fiona arrives with no luggage and no shoes. She tells Dom she is a fairy and grants
difficult from the very first years. When Kevin is 15, he does something irrational and unforgiveable in the eyes of the entire community. Eva grapples with her own feelings of grief and responsibility. Did she ever love her son? Competition, press screening Grand Theatre Lumiere
him three wishes. Fiona makes two wishes come true, then mysteriously disappears. Dom, who has fallen in love, searches for her everywhere and eventually finds her in the psychiatric hospital. Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette
11:00AM
RESTLESS (US) Romance, 91mins. Dir: Gus Van Sant. A teen romance about a girl dying of cancer who falls in love with a death- obsessed boy who hangs out with the ghost of a Kamikaze pilot. Un Certain Regard, press screening Salle Debussy
THE SLUT (Israel) Drama, 87mins. Dir: Hagar Ben Asher. Key cast: Daria Forman,
Hagar Ben Asher, Ishay Golan. Tamar cannot restrain her sexual desires. Once Shai, her new kind and gentle boyfriend, has settled into her life, she hopes to be able to control her animalistic behaviour. But the rounds of raw sex continues as Tamar cannot escape what men want from her. Critics’ Week Miramar
11:30AM
SLEEPING BEAUTY See box, below right
1:00PM
OUT OF BOUNDS (LABRADOR) (Denmark) Drama, 72mins. Dir: Frederikke Aspoock. Key cast: Jakob Eklund, Stephanie Leon. A desolate, windswept island. Stella and Oskar, a young couple, visit her father Nathan, who lives a lone life in the company of his labrador dog. Stella is pregnant and looking forward to the birth of her baby, but Oskar appears to be in doubt. When Oskar falls prey to Nathan’s provocations and feels bewildered by the relationship between father and daughter, a clash between the two men is inevitable
and Stella is caught in between. Out of Competition, press screening Salle Bazin
2:00PM
HARD LABOR (TRABALHAR CANSA) (Brazil) Drama, 99mins. Dirs: Juliana Rojas, Marco Dutra. Key cast: Helena Albergaria, Marat Descartes. Young housewife Helena decides to open a grocery store. She hires Paula as a maid to take care of
(UK, US) Drama, 110mins. Dir: Lynne Ramsay. Key cast: Tilda Swinton, John C Reilly, Ezra Miller. Competition Grand Theatre Lumiere
4:30PM
POLISSE (France) Drama, 127mins. Dir: Maiwenn. Key cast: Joey Starr, Karin Viard, Maiwenn. Fred, a rebel cop in Paris’ child protection unit, falls for Melissa, a photographer for the government. Torn between Fred and the world he reveals to her, and Lino, her wealthy, unfaithful conductor husband, how will uptown Melissa
come to terms with Fred’s violent reality? Competition, press screening Salle Debussy
5:30PM
THE SLUT (Israel) Drama, 87mins. Dir: Hagar Ben Asher. Key cast: Daria Forman, Hagar Ben Asher, Ishay Golan Critics’ Week Miramar
7:30PM
THE FAIRY (LA FEE) (France, Belgium) Drama, 94mins. Dir: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy, Philippe Martz Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette
SLEEPING BEAUTY (Australia) Drama, 104mins. Dir: Julia Leigh. Key cast: Emily Browning. Competition Grand Theatre Lumiere
7:45PM
RESTLESS (US) Romance, 91mins. Dir: Gus Van Sant. Un Certain Regard, press screening Salle Debussy
8:00PM
DECLARATION OF WAR (France) Drama, 100mins. Dir: Valerie
FESTIVAL & PRESS 11:30AM
SLEEPING BEAUTY (Australia) Drama, 104mins. Dir: Julia Leigh. Key cast: Emily Browning. Lucy is a young university student who takes a job as a Sleeping Beauty. In the Sleeping Beauty Chamber, old men seek
an erotic experience that requires Lucy’s absolute submission. This unsettling task starts to bleed into Lucy’s daily life and she develops an increasing need to know what happens to her when she is asleep. Competition Grand Theatre Lumiere
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