Compiled by Paul Lindsell
paullindsell@gmail.com
SCREENINGS
SCREENINGS 8:30AM
FESTIVAL & PRESS
17 GIRLS (17 FILLES) (France) Drama, 90mins. Dir: Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin. Key cast: Esther Garrel, Juliette Darche, Louise Grinberg. With English subtitles. Seventeen teenage girls together take an unexpected decision that will change their lives and leave them misunderstood by the boys and adults around them: they decide to get pregnant all at the same time. This is based on a true story that occurred in 2008. Critics’ Week Salle Bunuel
THE ARTIST (France) Drama, 100mins. Dir: Michel Hazanavicius. Key cast: Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo, James Cromwell. Hollywood 1927. George Valentin is a silent movie superstar. The advent of the talkies will sound the death knell for his career and see him fall into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller, it seems the sky’s the limit — major movie stardom awaits. Competition, press screening Grand Theatre Lumiere
9:00AM
PLAY (Sweden, France, Denmark) Drama, 118mins. Dir: Ruben Ostlund. Documentary analysing the theatrical gimmicks used by a group of youths to rob other children. Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette
11:00AM
BOLLYWOOD — THE GREATEST LOVE STORY EVER TOLD (India) Documentary, 81mins. Dir: R. Omprakash Mehra, Jeffrey Zimbalist. The documentary pays
FESTIVAL & PRESS 11:30AM
THE KID WITH A BIKE (LE GAMIN AU VELO) (Belgium) Drama, 87mins. Dir: Jean- Pierre et Luc Dardenne. Key cast: Cecile De France Sick of waiting for a
tribute to Bollywood that has contributed to establishing India’s identity in the eyes of the world and to making Mumbai one of the world capitals of the film history. Out of Competition, press screening Grand Theatre Lumiere
BONSAI (Chile, France, Argentina, Portugal) Comedy, 92mins. Dir: Cristian Jimenez. Key cast: Diego Noguera, Nathalia Galgani, Gabriela Arancibia Dark romance. Un Certain Regard, press screening Salle Bazin
FOOTNOTE (HEARAT SHULAYIM) (France) Drama,
father who has placed him in a children’s home after promising to come back for him, 11-year-old Cyril runs away and returns to the apartment where they lived together. Competition Grand Theatre Lumiere
106mins. Dir: Joseph Cedar. Key cast: Shlomo Bar Aba, Lior Ashkenzani. A journey into the world of two professors specialising in ancient scriptures; but most of all, a journey to the heart of a father- son relationship: the unsaid and untold, the admiration and envy for a role model, leading to silence and resentment. Competition Salle du Soixantieme
STOPPED ON TRACK (HALT AUF FREIER STRECKE) (Germany) Drama, 110mins. Dir: Andreas Dresen. Key cast: Milan Peschel, Steffi Kuhnert, Talisa Lily Lemke. Forty-year-old Frank has a wife and family, a steady job and a new house in the suburbs.
Out of the blue he is diagnosed with a brain tumour that leaves him with only a few months to live. The decision to home care Frank proves to be a struggle for him and his family to live and die in dignity. Un Certain Regard, press screening Salle Debussy
TAKE SHELTER (US) Drama, 116mins. Dir: Jeff Nichols. Key cast: Jessica Chastain, Michael Shannon. With French subtitles. Curtis LaForche lives a peaceful life with his wife, Samantha, and daughter, Hannah, until terrifying dreams begin to consume him, causing odd behaviour that weakens his marriage and confounds his friends. Critics’ Week Miramar
11:30AM
CODE BLUE (Netherlands) Drama, 80mins. Dir: Urszula Antoniak. Key cast: Bien De Moor, Lars Eidinger. Marian, a middle-aged nurse, devotes herself to her patients like a saint.
Sometimes she even takes on the role of a redeemer by helping the gravely ill to die. When she gets linked to a neighbour in an act of common voyeurism, she becomes fascinated by him. Marian surrenders to her human needs. Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette
END OF SILENCE (LA FIN DU SILENCE) (France, Austria) Thriller, 80mins. Dir: Roland Edzard. Key cast: Alexis Michalik, Carlo Brandt, Oscar Wagner. Tense thriller in an isolated cottage as a family falls apart. Directors’ Fortnight Cinema Les Arcades 1
THE KID WITH A BIKE (LE GAMIN AU VELO) See box, above
1:00PM
BE OMID E DIDAR (AU REVOIR) (Iran) Drama, 100mins. Dir: Mohammad Rasoulouf. Key cast: Leyla Zareh, Fereshteh Sadreorafai, Shahab Hoseini. A young lawyer in Tehran
searches for a visa to leave the country. Un Certain Regard Salle Bazin
MICHAEL (Austria) Drama, 96mins. Dir: Markus Schleinzer. Key cast: Michael Fuith, David Rauchenberger. Describes the last five months of 10-year-old Wolfgang’s and 35-year- old Michael’s involuntary life together. Competition Salle du Soixantieme
2:00PM
17 GIRLS (17 FILLES) (France) Drama, 90mins. Dir: Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin. Key cast: Esther Garrel, Juliette Darche, Louise Grinberg.With English subtitles. Critics’ Week La Licorne
THE ARTIST (France) Drama, 100mins. Dir: Michel Hazanavicius. Key cast: Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo, James Cromwell Competition Grand Theatre Lumiere
IRIS IN BLOOM (EN VILLE) (France) Drama, 75mins. Dir: Valerie Mrejen, Bertrand Schefer. Key cast: Lola Creton, Stanislas Mehhar. Iris is 16 and finishing her teenage years a small provincial town when she meets Jean, a 40-year- old photographer from Paris. Over the course of their meetings, their relationship evolves to an amorous friendship that will turn their lives upside down. Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette
MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE (US) Thriller, 101mins. Dir: Sean Durkin. Key cast: Elisabeth Olsen, John Hawkes, Sarah Paulson. Haunted by painful memories and increasing paranoia, a damaged woman struggles to re-assimilate with her family after fleeing
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