Compiled by Paul Lindsell
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SCREENINGS THURSDAY MAY 19
FESTIVAL & PRESS
8:30AM
SAUNA ON MOON (China) Drama, 95mins. Dir: Zou Peng. Key cast: Wu Yuchi, Yang Xiaomin, Lei Ting, Zhan Yi. With French subtitles only.
A businessman tries to revitalise his failing sauna business. Critics’ Week Salle Bunuel
THE SKIN I LIVE IN (LA PIEL QUE HABITO) (Spain) Thriller, 120mins. Dir: Pedro Almodovar. Key cast: Antonio Banderas. A surgeon goes to extreme lengths to save the life of his wife. Competition, press screening Grand Theatre Lumiere
9:00AM
BREATHING (ATMEN) (Austria) Drama, 98mins. Dir: Karl Markovics. Key cast: Georg Friedrich, Gerhard Liebmann, Karin Lischka. Roman Kogler, a young offender, finds himself working in a state funerary, where he begins to question his past and his actions. Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette
11:00AM
ISTANBUL EXPRESS (Turkey) Shorts, 75mins. Dir: Nisi Masa. With English subtitles only. Critics’ Week Miramar
THE MINISTER (L’EXERCICE DE L’ETAT) See box, above
THE MURDERER (THE YELLOW SEA) (South Korea) Thriller, 136mins. Dir: Na Hong- Jin. Key cast: Ha Jung- Woo, Kim Yoon-Suk. To pay off a gambling debt, a man is tricked into
SCREENINGS
FESTIVAL & PRESS THURSDAY 11:00AM
THE MINISTER (L’EXERCICE DE L’ETAT) (France) Drama, 112mins. Dir: Pierre Schoeller. Key cast: Michel Blanc, Olivier Gourmet.
entering a dangerous trap. Un Certain Regard Salle Bazin
PROGRAMME 2 Shorts, 81mins. ‘Ya-Gan-Bi-Hang’ (21mins), ‘Big Muddy’ (15mins), ‘Befetach Beity’ (6mins), ‘Drari’ (39mins). Cinefondation, press screening Salle Bunuel
11:30AM
BLUE BIRD (Belgium) Drama, 86mins. Dir: Gust Van Den Berghe. Key cast: Bafiokadie Potey, Tene Potey, Nanty Liberia Bani. One morning, Bafiokadie and his sister Tene, two African children, leave their village. The only thing on their mind is to find their lost blue bird before the day is over. But they will find much more along their way. Directors’ Fortnight Cinema Les Arcades 1
A government minister is sucked into a spiralling chain of crises and urgent decision making after a coach crashes. Un Certain Regard, press screening Salle Debussy
HARA-KIRI: DEATH OF A SAMURAI (Japan) Drama, 126mins. Dir: Takashi Miike. Key cast: Ebizo Ichikawa, Koji Yakusho. A tale of revenge, honour and disgrace, centred on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son- in-law, setting in motion a tense showdown of vengeance against the house of a feudal lord. Competition Grand Theatre Lumiere
HEAT WAVE (APRES LE SUD) (France) Drama, 92mins. Dir: Jean- Jacques Jauffret. Key cast: Adele Haenel, Sylvie Lachat, Ulysse Grosjean. One sweltering afternoon in the south of France, lives full of hurt intersect: those of Stephane and Luigi, two young cousins, Georges, a retired worker, Amelie, Luigi’s girlfriend, and
Anne, Amelie’s mother. Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette
MELANCHOLIA (France) Drama, 130mins. Dir: Lars von Trier. Key cast: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Rampling John Hurt, Kiefer Sutherland. Two sisters find their relationship challenged as a nearby planet threatens to collide into the Earth. Competition Salle du Soixantieme
2:00PM
THE DAY HE ARRIVES (South Korea) Drama, 79mins. Dir: Hong Sangsoo. Key cast: Yu Junsang, Kim Sangjoong, Song Sunmi. A professor travels to a suburb of Seoul to meet his mentor. Un Certain Regard, press screening Salle Debussy
IN FILM NIST (Iran) 75mins. Dir: Jafar Panahi, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb Panahi is currently incarcerated in Iran — this documentary made within prison charts his thoughts and musings. Out of Competition, press screening Salle Bazin
ON THE PLANK (SUR LA PLANCHE ) (France, Morocco) Drama, 106mins. Dir: Leila Kilani. Key cast: Mouna Bahmad, Soufia Issami, Nouzha Akel The story of Badia and Imane, two young Moroccan girls in their early 20s. Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette
SAUNA ON MOON (China) Drama, 95mins. Dir: Zou Peng. Key cast: Wu Yuchi, Yang Xiaomin, Lei Ting,
Zhan Yi. With French subtitles only. Critics’ Week La Licorne
2:30PM
PROGRAMME 3 Shorts, 81mins. ‘Duelo Antes Da Noite’ (20mins), ‘Bento Monogatari’ (27mins), ‘Der Wechselbalg’ (8mins), ‘Al Martha Lauf’ (26mins). Cinefondation, press screening Salle Bunuel
THE SKIN I LIVE IN (LA PIEL QUE HABITO) (Spain) Thriller, 120mins. Dir: Pedro Almodovar.
Key cast: Antonio Banderas. Competition Grand Theatre Lumiere
4:00PM AVE
(Bulgaria) Romance, 105mins. Dir: Konstantin Bojanov. Key cast: Ovanes Torosyan, Angela Nedyalkova. With French subtitles only. While hitchhiking to the funeral of his art school friend, Kamen meets Ave, a 17-year-old runaway who is looking for her troubled brother. With each ride they hitch, Ave invents new identities for them and gets Kamen deeper and deeper into trouble. Reluctantly drawn into this adventure, Kamen begins to fall in love with her. Critics’ Week Studio 13
OSLO, AUGUST 31 (Norway) Drama, 95mins. Dir: Joachim Trier. Key cast: Anders Danielsen Lie, Hans Olaf Brenner, Ingrid Olava. A recovering drug addict returns to the city to make amends and discover his wrongs. Un Certain Regard Salle Bazin
May 19, 2011 Screen International at the Cannes Film Festival 15 n
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