SCREENINGS Edited by Paul Lindsell
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FESTIVAL AND PRESS
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See box, right 10:00
THE WE AND THE I (US) 103mins. Dir: Michel Gondry. Key cast: Alex Barrios, Jonathon Ortiz, Lady Chen Carrasco, Michael Brodie, Raymond Delgado, Teresa Rivera. With Gondry’s trademark offbeat take on reality, ‘The We And The I’ is a delicate urban tale from the Bronx and one of the most surprising and moving cinematic events of 2012. Directors Fortnight Theatre Croisette
11:00 MYSTERY
(China) 90mins. Dir: Lou Ye. Key cast: Hao Lei, Qin Hao, Qi Xi. Liu Jie has no idea her husband Yongzhao is leading a double life, until the day she sees him entering a hotel with a young woman. Her world crumbles — and it’s just the beginning. A few hours later, the young woman dies beneath the wheels of a car. Un Certain Regard Press Theatre Claude Debussy
11:30
LOS SALVAJES (Argentina) 119mins. Dir: Alejandro Fadel. Key cast: Cesar Roldan, Leonel Arancibia, Martin Cotari, Roberto Cowal, Sofia Brito. Five teenagers violently escape a reform school in an Argentinean province. They travel 100km by foot, across hills, for the promise of a new home. Critics’ Week Miramar
12:00
AFTER THE BATTLE (France) 122mins. Dir: Yousry Nasrallah. Key cast: Menna Chalaby, Bassem Samra, Najed El Sebai.
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PARADISE: LOVE (Austria) 120mins. Dir: Ulrich Seidl. Key cast: Margarethe Tiesel, Peter Kazungu, Inge Maux. On Kenya’s beaches they are known as “sugar mamaso — European women who seek out African boys selling love to earn a living. Teresa, a 50-year-old Austrian woman, travels to this vacation paradise. In Competition Press Salle Debussy
17:00
FESTIVAL & PRESS 08:30
RUST & BONE (France) 120mins. Dir: Jacques Audiard. Key cast: Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Corinne Masiero, Celine Sallette, Bouli Lanners. Ali suddenly finds himself in charge of Sam, his five-year-old
Once a member of one of the notorious armed groups that were coerced by the Egyptian government to carry out violent attacks on protestors in Tahir Square on February 2 2011, Mahmoud has since lost his job and been ostracised by his own community. Mahmoud is close to despair when he meets Reem, a divorcee and modern thinker who works in advertising. Their encounter develops into a love story that will radically change the course of their lives forever. In Competition Grand Theatre Lumiere
MOONRISE KINGDOM (US) 94mins. Dir: Wes Anderson. Key cast: Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Jason
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son he barely knows. Penniless and without friends, he leaves the north of France to seek shelter at his sister’s place in Antibes, where he meets Stephanie a beautiful woman — and tragedy strikes. In Competition Press Grand Theatre Lumiere
Schwartzman, Bob Balaban. Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, the story of two 12 year olds who fall in love, make a secret pact and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore — and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in every which way. In Competition Salle du 60eme
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POLLUTING PARADISE (Germany) 98mins. Dir: Fatih Akin. Camburnu is a small mountain village in northeastern Turkey. Thanks to the Black Sea’s mild and humid climate, the villagers have lived for generations off tea cultivation and fishing in
harmony with the nature surrounding them. But this idyllic environment is threatened by the government’s decision 10 years ago to build a garbage landfill directly above the village. Out of Competition Special Screenings Press Salle Bazin
14:00
NUAGES DE MAI 117mins. Dir: Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Directors Fortnight Theatre Croisette
STUDENT (Kazakhstan) 90mins. Dir: Darezhan Omirbayev. A modern day interpretation of the novel ‘Crime And Punishment’, set in Kazakhstan. Un Certain Regard Press Theatre Claude Debussy
14:30
WOODY ALLEN: A DOCUMENTARY (US) 120mins. Dir: Robert B Weide. The film chronicles the trajectory and longevity of Allen’s career: from his early work as a TV scribe for Sid Caesar, standup comedian and frequent TV talk show guest, to the writer-director we know today, averaging one film per year for
more than 40 years. Cannes Classics Salle du 60eme
15:00
MEKONG HOTEL (Thailand) 57mins. Dir: Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Mekong Hotel is a portrait of a hotel near the Mekong River in the north-east of Thailand. The river there marks the border between Thailand and Laos. In the bedrooms and terraces, Apichatpong held a rehearsal with his crew for a movie that he wrote years ago called ‘Ecstasy Garden’. The film shuffles different realms, fact and fiction, expressing the bonds between a vampire- like mother and her daughter, the young lovers and the river. Mekong Hotel — since it was shot at the time of the heavy flooding in Thailand — also weaves in layers of demolition, politics, and a drifting dream of the future. Out of Competition Press Salle Bazin
RUST & BONE (France) 120mins. Dir: Jacques Audiard. Key cast: Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Corinne Masiero, Celine Sallette, Bouli Lanners. In Competition Grand Theatre Lumiere
LOS SALVAJES (Argentina) 119mins. Dir: Alejandro Fadel. Key cast: Cesar Roldan, Leonel Arancibia, Martin Cotari, Roberto Cowal, Sofia Brito. Critics’ Week Miramar
ROMAN POLANSKI/A FILM MEMOIR (Italy) 90mins. Dir: Laurent Bouzereau. Documentary about the celebrated, controversial film director. Special Screenings Salle du 60eme
17:15
AFTER THE CURFEW (Indonesia) 101mins. Dir: Usmar Ismail. Key cast: A N Alcaff, Netty Herawaty, R D Ismail. Thriller set in the months following Indonesia’s independence. It follows Iskandar, a medical student and war veteran, who finds himself disillusioned with civilian life in the post- war era and feels betrayed by the corruption and mismanaged leadership around him. Eventually Iskandar finds himself on the run from the authorities in a city that, after the revolution, is still under the curfew. Cannes Classics Salle Bunuel
19:30
KALPANA (India) 155mins. Dir: Uday Shankar. Key cast: Uday Shankar, Amala
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