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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 Salle Bunuel
THE TREE OF LIFE (US) Drama, 138mins. Dir: Terrence Malick. Key cast: Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain. The story of a family who must come to terms with a devastating loss. In doing so, they discover life’s most important lessons of unselfish love and forgiveness. Competition, press screening Grand Theatre Lumiere
9:00AM BUSONG
(Philippines) Drama, 95mins. Dir: Auraeus Solito. Key cast: Alessandra De Rossi, Bonivie Budao, Clifford Banagale. Busong is the indigenous Palawan concept of fate or instant karma. Nature reacts instantly to man’s disrespect of nature and other men — as it does to the people a troubled brother and sister meet on their travels. 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 La Licorne
11:00AM
SNOWTOWN (Australia) Drama, 120mins. Dir: Justin
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FESTIVAL & PRESS 2:00PM
WHERE DO WE GO NOW? (ET MAINTENANT ON VA OU?) (France) Drama, 100mins. Dir: Nadine Labaki. Key cast: Claude Msawbaa, Leyla Fouad. Set against the backdrop of a war-torn country, this film tells the heart- warming tale of a
Kurzel. Key cast: Lucas Pittaway, Daniel Henshall, Louise Harris. With French subtitles. When 16-year-old Jamie is introduced to a charismatic man, a friendship begins. However, as the relationship grows so do Jamie’s suspicions, until he finds his world threatened by both his loyalty for, and fear of, his newfound father figure, John Bunting: Australia’s most notorious serial killer. Critics’ Week Miramar
STOPPED ON TRACK (HALT AUF FREIER STRECKE) (Germany) Drama, 110mins. Dir: Andreas Dresen. Key cast: Milan Peschel, Steffi Kuhnert,
group of women with a determination to protect their isolated, mine- encircled, community from the pervasive and divisive outside forces which threaten to destroy it from within. Un Certain Regard, press screening Salle Debussy
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 Salle Bazin
TOOMELAH (Australia) Drama, 106mins. Dir: Ivan Sen. Key cast: Daniel Connors, Christopher Edwards. A 10-year-old boy in a remote Aboriginal community tries to resist the lure of
violence and drugs. Un Certain Regard Salle Bunuel
11:30AM
IRIS IN BLOOM (EN VILLE) (France) Drama, 75mins. Dir: Valerie Mrejen, Bertrand Schefer. Key cast: Lola Creton, Stanislas Mehhar. A troubled 17-year-old falls for a man almost three times her age. Directors’ Fortnight Cinema Les Arcades 1
OUTSIDE SATAN (HORS SATAN) (France) Drama, 110mins. Dir: Bruno Dumont. Key cast: David Dewaele, Alexandra Lematre, Valerie Mestdagh Near a hamlet with river and marshland lives a strange guy who struggles along, poaches, prays and builds fires. A girl from a local farm takes care of him and feeds him. They spend time together in the wide scenery of dunes and woods, mysteriously engaging in private prayer at the edge of the ponds, where the devil is prowling. Un Certain Regard, press screening Salle Debussy
UNFORGIVABLE (IMPARDONNABLES) (France) Drama, 113mins. Dir: Andre Techine. Key cast: Andre Dussollier, Carole Bouquet, Melanie Thierry. Love, betrayal, forgiveness and unforgiving attitudes riddle this compelling drama in beautiful, romantic Venice. Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette
11:45AM
HOUSE OF TOLERANCE (L’APOLLONIDE — SOUVENIRS DE LA MAISON CLOSE) (France) Drama, 125mins. Dir: Bertrand Bonello. Key cast: Adele Haenel, Alice Barnole, Celine Sallette During the early 1900s, in a brothel in Paris, a man disfigures a prostitute for life. She is marked with a scar that draws a tragic smile on her face. Competition Grand Theatre Lumiere
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 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 Salle du Soixantieme
2:00PM
THE ISLAND (Bulgaria) Drama, 110mins. Dir: Kamen Kalev. Key cast: Boyka Velkova, Laetitia Casta. A romantic trip for a Parisian couple to Bulgaria tests their relationship to the limit. Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette
TAKE SHELTER (US) Drama, 116mins. Dir: Jeff Nichols. Key cast: Jessica Chastain, Michael Shannon. With French subtitles. Critics’ Week La Licorne
WHERE DO WE GO NOW ? (ET MAINTENANT ON VA OU?) See box, above
3:00PM
THE TREE OF LIFE (US) Drama, 138mins. Dir: Terrence Malick.
May 16, 2011 Screen International at the Cannes Film Festival 33 n
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