From Hollywood to Trubchevsk

Almadovar, Tarantino, Dzharmush: New "guide for the 72nd Cannes Film Festival

Among the 19 paintings, selected for the main competition, next to the "dark horses" are world -famous names, from which the synofiles are breathtaking. The new works of Pedro Almodovara, Xavier Dolan, Jean-Pierre and Luke Dardenov, Terrens Malik, Jim Jarmusha, Ken Louch, Konrelu I.

The "dead do not die" Jim Jarmusha. The picture will open a review, but will also claim awards. The broadcast of the opening ceremony along with the film Jarmusha will be shown simultaneously in 550 cinemas of France. After the vampire drama, “only lovers will survive”, the director took off the zombie apocalypse in an American outback. Cast: Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Chloe Sevigny, Tilda Swinton, Steve Buscami, Iggy Pop, Tom Waites and rapper RZA.

"Once ... in Hollywood"

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In early May, it became known about the inclusion of Quentin Tarantino “Once ... in Hollywood” in the main competition of the new film. The end of the 60s. Television actor Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his understudy Cliff Butt (Brad Pitt) are trying to break into the movie screens. Their neighbor actress Sharon Tate on the night of August 9, 1969 became one of the victims of the sect of Charles Manson. Almost a quarter of a century ago, Tarantino received a “gold palm branch” for the “criminal reading”.

"Pain and Glory"

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“Pain and Glory” by Pedro Almodovara - about the director at the sunset of his career. History with a strong autobiographical taste. About meetings in reality and in the space of memory. About doubts and the main questions. The scene is the El Deoseo studio, which the Brothers Pedro and Agustin Almodovars founded in 1987 during the filming of the film “The Law of Desire”. Cast: Antonio Banderas, Penelope Cruis, Asier Echeanded and Zhuliet Serrano.

"Young Ahmed"

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"Young Ahmed" Jean-Pierre and Luke Dardenov. The favorites of the Cannes (starting with their Rosetta, who received three prizes at once, including the “gold palm branch”) return to the festival with a drama about the methods of recruiting terrorists in Europe. The hero of the film is a Belgian Muslim teenager who decides to crime under the pressure of Islamist propagandists.

"Matthias and Maxim"

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"Matthias and Maxim" Xavier Dolan. Canadian Kinovunterkind, winner of the Grand Prix of the Cannes Festival tells the story of childhood friends. “I want to talk about true friendship and true love,” says Dolan, who played one of the main roles. And again reflects on the topic of gender variability.

"Sorry, we missed"

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"Sorry, we missed." Ken Louch, 82-year-old master, twice crowned with a “golden palm branch”, describes a family who tries to get out of the bondage of debts after the financial crisis of 2008. About the shade of hopes for restoring their independence.

"Radegund"

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“Radegund” by Terrens Malika is a military drama of the classic of world cinema (“Tree of Life”, “To the Miracle”, “Knight of Cups”, “Song for the Song”). About the Austrian military who refused to take the oath in 1943 and fight on the side of the Nazis. This is the story of Franz Jaherstetter (August Dil). The script is based on genuine front -line letters between the hunter and his wife. Cast: Jurgen Shkhnov, Bruno Ganz, Matthias Schonarts. Radegund was the last work of the famous Swedish actor Michael Nyukvist who died in 2017.

"TRAITOR"

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"Traitor" Marco Belllock. Another famous veteran of numerous film battles (“Fists in your pocket”, “Hello, Night”, “My Mother Smile”, “China is close). He received "Golden Leo" in his career from Bertolucci's hands. In the center of his new picture of Tommaso Bushett (Pierfracheko Favino) is the mafiosi, who was called the "boss of the two worlds." He helped judges Falcone and Borsellino shed light on the organization Cosa Nostra.

"Parasites"

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"Parasites" Pon Zhong Ho. Two years ago, around the magical environmental phantasmagoria of the film “October”, shot by Korean director Pon Jong Ho at Netflix funds, a scandal flared up. The representative of the French cinemas demanded that the streaming service release films first in cinemas and only after a while - online. In response, Netflix simply recalled all his films from the 2018 program. Cannes lost such festival hits as Alfonso Kuaronai, Basterggs Bastera Bastera Brothers Brothers Cohen. And now the director returns to France with a “parasite”, shot at the modest means of the Korean film company. This is a tragicomedy thriller about a family of unemployed loafers who intended to cash in on one wealthy family.

"Lake of wild geese"

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"Lake of wild geese." The film of the Chinese director Diao Inan, the author of Neonuar “Black Coal, Subtle Ice”, awarded the “Golden Bear” of Berlinale.

"Whistles"

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There is a lot of chance of victory with Corneliu I., who received a “Treasure” for his film, shown in the “Special View” program, a prize with the wording “For Special Talent”. His painting “whistles” , about a policeman who came to the Spanish Island of the same name and began to study “Silbo Homero” there, a special whistle, which allows the locals to communicate through gorges and valleys at a distance of up to five kilometers.

"Mektub, my love: intermetso"

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Closer to the final of the festival, we will see the new chapter of the giant meditative saga “Mektub, my love: Intermezzo” of the Franco-Tunisian director Abladatif Keshish a lasting four hours. Recall: six years ago, Keshish received a “gold palm” for the “life of Adele”.

"The best years of life"

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Klod Lelush is responsible for nostalgia for Cannes, who shot his film award “Man and Woman” - “The Best Years of Life”. On the screen again, the duet Anuk Eme and Jean-Louis Trentignan. "Golden Palm Branch" of 1966. The continuation in 1986 was called "Man and Woman. Twenty years later. " And then Anne will see Louis again. Nostalgia for love to the music of Francis Lay.

The main event outside the competition promises to be the premiere of “Rocketman” - the movie book of Elton John, who himself will complain to Cannes.

The jury is headed by the Latin American director, producer and screenwriter Alejandro Gonzalez injarita, adherent of new technologies and visual experiments. Following Hollywood, the Cannes Festival is trying to be as political correct as possible. In the jury (in addition to injarita), four men and four women are representatives of six different nationalities from four continents. There are also many female detectors in the competition: Senegal Mati Diop, Austrian director Jessica Hauser, Frenchwoman Selin Schyamma and Justin Trier, Mati Diop.

There are no Russian paintings in the competition. But two domestic films apply to the prize of "Special Glash".

"Dylda"

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“Dylda” is the second full -length picture of Kantemir Balagov. In 2017, for the film “Testamus”, he received a fiber prize, a year later he joined the jury “Special Glash”. The film, produced by Alexander Rodnyansky, talks about two young women who have returned from the front who are trying to establish a peaceful life.

"Once in & Nbsp Tubchevsk"

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Almost at the last moment, the painting “Once in Trubchevsk” Larisa Sadilova was included in the official program. The film takes place in a small provincial town. A movie about a complex personal choice between an old life and a new one. The filming was attended by professional actors and residents of Trubchevsky district. The art director of the film festival Thierry Fremo considered it necessary to present the picture: “The Russian director Larisa Sadilova, who had already shot six full-length films, has not shot for the past few years. She returns with the “chronicles of the town of Trubchevsk”, causing a sense of love for the modern Russian province in the viewer, showing her heroes through the prism of sophisticated directing and a delicate look. The aspirations and patience of women, their courage in relation to illusory emancipation, their dreams, disappointments, the feeling of eternal fatalism were presented by the director acutely and at the same time easily. The Cannes Film Festival first welcomes Larisa Sadilova. ”

The director himself believes that her picture, shot after a large break in work, ended up in the official program of the main film conducting of the world.

"Home" (Ukraine)

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Also in the "Special View" the film "Home" of the Ukrainian director Nariman Aliyev. He is from Crimea. This is the story of the return to the Crimea of ​​the father and the youngest son, who are going to bury in the homeland of the eldest son and brother who died in the Donbass.