In just under a month, some of the biggest names in the film industry along with a large proportion of the world’s press will descend upon the French Riviera for one of the year’s most prestigious film festivals, the Festival de Cannes.
This year’s lineup consists of 49 films that will screen either in Competition, in the Un Certain Regard section of the festival, or out of competition, and out of those 49 there are five first-time directors and 15 female directors.
In just under a month, some of the biggest names in the film industry along with a large proportion of the world’s press will descend upon the French Riviera for one of the year’s most prestigious film festivals, the Festival de Cannes.
This year’s lineup consists of 49 films that will screen either in Competition, in the Un Certain Regard section of the festival, or out of competition, and out of those 49 there are five first-time directors and 15 female directors.
Many Cannes Film Festival veterans return with films in competition such as two-time Palme d’Or-winning auteurs Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne with Two Days, One Night staring Marion Cotillard as a woman on a mission to convince her colleagues to sacrifice their bonus so she can keep her job. David Cronenberg also returns with his satire on the Hollywood star system called Maps to the Stars, as too does Mike Leigh with Mr Turner his art world biopic on painter J.M.W. Turner. Ken Loach hits the Cannes Film Festival for the twelfth time this year with political drama Jimmy's Hall, reported to be his last feature film.
There are high expectations for Ryan Gosling's directorial debut Lost River (previously titled How to Catch a Monster) about a single mother swept into a dark underworld, while her teenage son discovers a road that leads him to a secret underwater town. Think Twin Peaks mixed with Goonies - seriously.
The release date for Olivier Dahan’s Grace of Monaco staring Nicole Kidman has been put back several times, but this will open this 67th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, and Samuel Theis's Party Girl will launch the Un Certain Regard section.
The Cannes Film Festival runs May 14 - May 25, with the closing ceremony and awards handed out May 24. And don’t forget, during May, Rialto Channel is all about the Festival de Cannes. Throughout the month, I’ll be on screen introducing you to an eclectic collection of award winning and critically acclaimed feature films that have screened in competition at Cannes recently.
Here’s the full list of films screening at the 2014 Festival de Cannes.
COMPETITION
Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard)
The Captive (Atom Egoyan)
Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas)
Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller)
The Homesman (Tommy Lee Jones)
Jimmy’s Hall (Ken Loach)
La Meraviglie (Alice Rohrwacher)
Leviathan (Andrei Zvyaginstev)
Mommy (Shayne Laverdiere)
Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg)
Mommy (Xavier Dolan)
Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh)
Saint Laurent (Bertrand Bonello)
The Search (Michel Hazanavicius)
Still the Water (Naomi Kawase)
Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako)
Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
Wild Tales (Damian Szifron)
Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
UN CERTAIN REGARD
OPENER: Party Girl (Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis)
Amour Fou (Jessica Hausner)
Bird People (Pascale Ferran)
The Blue Room (Mathieu Amalric)
Charlie’s Country (Rolf de Heer)
Dohee-ya (July Jung)
Eleanor Rigby (Ned Benson)
Fantasia (Wang Chao)
Harcheck mi Headro (Keren Yedaya)
Hermosa Juventud (Jaime Rosales)
Incompresa (Asia Argento)
Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)
Lost River (Ryan Gosling)
Run (Philippe Lacote)
The Salt of the Earth (Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado)
Snow in Paradise (Andrew Hulme)
Titli (Kanu Behl)
Tourist (Ruben Ostlund)
Xenia (Panos Koutras)
OUT OF COMPETITION
Coming Home (Zhang Yimou)
How to Train Your Dragon 2 (Dean DeBlois)
Les Gens du Monde (Yves Jeuland)
OPENER
Grace of Monaco (Olivier Dahan)
MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
The Rover (David Michod)
The Salvation (Kristian Levring)
The Target (Yoon Hong-seung)
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
The Bridges of Sarajevo (various directors)
Eau Argentee (Mohammed Ossama)
Maidan (Sergei Loznitsa)
Red Army (Gabe Polsky)
Caricaturistes – Fantassins de la Democratie (Stephanie Valloatto)