The Cannes Film Festival begins to put its most anticipated cards on the table at the beginning of the second week.
The glamor of the opening has been left behind, Tom Cruise's overwhelming power of star has been filed away, reconciled with cinephiles, now aligns the hunters for La Palma.
Scheduled:
- CRIMES OF THE FUTURE
by David Cronenberg with Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart.
IN COMPETITION.
His name is Saul Tenser and he is a star of performing art known all over the world.
But this time, with the help of his partner Caprice, he decided to go further by staging the transformation of his organs.
A police officer watches the couple closely, until a mysterious extremist group bursts on the scene ... At the turn of the age of 80, the great Canadian director decides to amaze again by returning to his ancient obsession with the transformation of the human body and the advent of machine.
His best special effects remain emotions, but his new film is for strong spirits.
- DECISION TO LEAVE
by Park Chan-Wook with Tang Wei, Park Hae-il, Go Kyung-pyo.
IN COMPETITION.
It is still the body, the all-consuming passion, the attraction to overcome the limit that motivates the author of "Old Boy".
Here the narrative spring is the investigation into a strange mountain accident in which a man lost his life.
Detective Hae-Joon soon realizes that it is murder and that the prime suspect is the sister of the dead.
He delves into her life, looks for the flaws in her alibi, but in the meantime he experiences an increasingly intense attraction, fueled by the woman.
Park Chan-wook's cinema looks for excess and hits the mark of our unconscious.
- THE NATURAL HISTORY OF DESTRUCTION
by Sergei Loznitsa.
OUT OF COMPETITION.
Almost surprisingly, given the times, the most famous Ukrainian director does not film current events, but turns his gaze to a page from the past, putting his talent as a documentary maker and historian at the service of a painful page in Europe: the ruthless bombings allies on German cities during World War II.
It follows step by step the documented investigation by WG Sebald and shows us all the pain of a civilian population that awaits death from above.
Bombs yesterday, missiles today.
- NOS FRAGINS
by Rachid Bouchareb with Reda Kateb, Lyna Khoudri, Raphaël Personnaz.
OUT OF COMPETITION.
France does not forget the beginning of the demonstrations, almost a civil war, which in the 1980s tore apart the body of society that many believed to be ethnic and tolerant.
It is up to the French director-producer of Algerian origin to recall the killing of Malik Oussekine during the student protests of 1986. And to show how the police and the government are trying to silence the case because of another dead man, a boy of Algerian origin massacred in the same night by the cops.
- MOONAGE DAYDREAM
by Brett Morgen with David Bowie.
OUT OF COMPETITION.
Thousands of photos, unpublished films, memories of those who knew him and saw him in action.
On the notes of his success, the documentary, an authentic nocturnal gift for the faithful of rock, covers the life and career of the White Duke.
- BURNING DAYS
by Emin Alper with Selahattin PaşalÕ, Ekin Koç, Eylül Ersöz, Selin Yeninci.
A CERTAIN REGARD Emre, a young prosecutor seeking glory, is assigned to the tourist town of Balkaya on Turkey's southern coast.
Soon he is confronted with corruption, the unspoken truths, the manipulations of a world that he should fight against.
He thus meets Murat, the owner of the local newspaper who could reveal a lot to him.
- JOYLAND
by Saim Sadiq with Sana Jafri, Ali Junejo, Sania Saeed.
A CERTAIN REGARD.
The first Pakistani film invited to Cannes also marks the feature debut of the director nominated for the Caméra d'or.
The (partially autobiographical) story of the discovery of sex by Haider, husband expecting the male child that the whole religious family with whom he lives, will certainly make a sensation.
Haider, on the other hand, in secret and looking for a job, is hired in a cabaret where dancers are queens and falls in love with the sensual Biba.
Only to discover that the object of his passion is a transgender.
- LES CINQ DIABLES
by Léa Mysius with Adèle Exarchopoulos, Sally Drame, Swala Emati.
QUINZAINE DES REALISATEURS.
Little Vicky, an African father and a very blond mother, has a singular gift: she senses all smells with morbid intensity, collects them, reproduces them by closing them in special bottles.
The most sought after smell of her is that of the mother to whom she is morbidly attached.
Until one day, Julia, her father's sister, arrives.
Something unexpected explodes in Vicky's head and smell.
Truly a film capable of creating scandal, but for the subtle malaise that runs through it.
- DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA
by Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor.
QUINZAINE DES REALISATEURS.
On a festival day in which the real protagonist is the human body, in all its manifestations and transformations, this singular anatomical essay filmed in hospitals and on the beds of the sufferers could not be missing, following the intuitions of the anatomist André Vesale, a Dutch scientist almost the same age as Galileo and Leonardo, as their forerunners of the knowledge of the body and its transformations.
- TASAVOR
by Ali Behrad with Leila Hatami.
SEMAINE DE LA CRITIQUE.
One night in Tehran.
A silent passenger, a taxi driver used to asking questions.
A love story that breaks the rules and that is consumed in the depth of the night.
The memory goes to Kiarostami and Panahi, but we are here in front of a new generation of Iranian cinema and the story of a changing society.
