[Culture] Cannes Film Festival 2012

Most prestigious film festival. Last year top prizes went to Tree of Life, Drive, The Artist, Take Shelter & Melancholia.

This year the USA is represented by Wes Anderson, Jeff Nicols (f-ck yeah!) and Lee Daniels (WTF?!?!).

Two Oceania productions set in the US, Andrew Dominik's (Chopper & The Assassination of Jesse James) Killing Them Softly and John Hillcoat (The Preposition) Lawless. Killing Them Softly was originally titled Cogan's Trade and stars Brad Pitt as an Irish Hitman. Which leads me to ask, Why the fudge would you rename a solid gangster film after a Roberta Flack sounding song. Lawless is about bootleggers in in 1920s Virginia. Tom Hardy, Guy Pearce, Gary Oldman star.

And finally a French Production of Jack Kerouac's On The Road with Kristen Stewert and the guy from Tron.

COMPETITION:
Moonrise Kingdom, dir: Wes Anderson USA
Rust & Bone, dir: Jacques Audiard
Holly Motors, dir: Léos Carax
Cosmopolis, dir: David Cronenberg CN
The Paperboy, dir: Lee Daniels USA
Killing Them Softly, dir: Andrew Dominik NZ
Reality, dir: Matteo Garrone
Amour, dir: Michael Haneke
Lawless, dir: John Hillcoat AUS
In Another Country, dir: Hong Sangsoo
Taste Of Money, dir: Im Sangsoo
Like Someone In Love, dir: Abbas Kiarostami
The Angel’s Share, dir: Ken Loach
Im Nebel, dir: Sergei Loznitsa
Beyond The Hills, dir: Cristian Mungiu
Baad El Mawkeaa, dir: Yousry Nasrallah
Mud, dir: Jeff Nichols USA
You Haven’t Seen Anything Yet, dir: Alain Resnais
Post Tenebras Lux, dir: Carlos Reygadas
On The Road, dir: Walter Salles FR
Paradis: Amour, dir: Ulrich Seidl
The Hunt, dir: Thomas Vinterberg
Thérèse Desqueyroux, dir: Claude Miller (closing film, out of competition)

UN CERTAIN REGARD:
Miss Lovely, Ashim Ahluwalia
La Playa, dir: Juan Andrés Arango COL
God’s Horses, dir: Nabil Ayouch
Trois Monde, dir: Catherine Corsini
Antiviral, dir: Brandon Cronenberg
7 Days In Havana, dirs: Benicio Del Toro, Pablo Trapero, Julio Medem, Elia Suleiman, Juan Carlos Tabio, Gaspard Noé, Laurent Cantet
Le Grand Soir, dirs: Benoit Delépine, Gustave Kervern
Laurence Anyways, dir: Xavier Dolan
Después De Lucia, dir: Michel Franco
Aimer A Perdre La Raison, dir: Joachim Lafosse
Student, dir: Darezhan Omirbayev
La Pirogue, dir: Moussa Toure
Elefante Blanco, dir: Pablo Trapero ARG
Confessions Of A Chile Of The Century, dir: Sylvie Verheyde
11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate, dir: Koji Wakamatsu
Mystery, dir: Lou Ye
Beasts Of The Southern Wild, dir: Behn Zeitlin USA

http://www.deadline.com/2012/04/cannes-film-festival-lists-from-the-full-65th-anniversary-official-selection/


Some Trailers

La Playa, Colombia UN CERTAIN REGARD

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Rust & Bone, France Main Competition
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On The Road, France Main Competition

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Elefante Blanco, Argentina UN CERTAIN REGARD

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