There is a crowd today competing at the Cannes Film Festival with three films, while the parallel sections of the festival spend their last fires and give the balance and comments.
The most anticipated author is the Japanese veteran Kore-eda, for the first time committed to shooting outside his country.
Scheduled:
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PACIFICATION by Albert Serra with Benoît Magimel, Pahoa Mahgafanau, Matahi Pambrun, Marc Susini, Sergi Lopez,
IN COMPETITION.
High Commissioner of France De Roller is a perfect diplomat, impeccable in public and in private, attentive to the moods of the people of Tahiti.
The mysterious appearance of a submarine in Polynesian waters, however, creates understandable agitation, in the memory of the nuclear tests which are a never removed fault of France against this people.
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BROKER by Kore-eda Hirokazu with Song Kang-Ho, Doona Bae, Dong-won Gang
.IN COMPETITION.
Traveling to Korea, the most beloved living Japanese director focuses on the fate of two men who, on a rainy night, recover the newborn child that a woman has abandoned.
Their pilgrimage across the country to find a family for the newborn will change their lives.
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CLOSE by Lukas Dhont with Eden Dambrine, Gustav De Waele, Emilie Dequenne
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IN COMPETITION.
Another story of childhood friendship and an unspeakable secret that now unites and separates thirteen-year-olds Léo and Rémi.
Rémi's mother will try to help them.
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SALAM by Melanie Diam's, Houda Benyamina and Anne Cissé.
OUT OF COMPETITION.
The return to the scene, after a wait that has lasted for more than ten years, of the most beloved rapper in France, of Malian origin, who tells herself without veils through an artistic journey that coincides with her life.
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REBEL by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah with Aboubakr Bensaihi, Amir El Arbi, Younes Bouab.
OUT OF COMPETITION.
The fury of the war in Syria returns to the present in this story of brotherhood: Kamal has come to help the refugees and finds himself stuck in Raqqa, besieged;
his younger brother Nassim would like to join him, but he becomes an easy prey of the Isis guerrillas.
The horror of the massacre comes to the big screen.
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LE BLEU DU CAFTAN by Maryam Touzani with Lubna Azabal, Saleh Bakri, Ayoub Missioui.
A CERTAIN REGARD.
For the closing of the second Cannes competition, Morocco takes the field with a story written by the famous Nabil Ayush and focused on Halim's rams who cannot confess his homosexuality and for years has lived a perfect marriage with Mina who knows his secret.
When the woman falls ill and their clothing store is in danger of failure, it is the complicity between the two that supports them.
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1976 by Manuela Martelli with Aline Küppenheim, Nicolás Sepúlveda, Hugo Medina.
QUINZAINE DES REALISATEURS.
The famous parallel section of the festival is also preparing for its conclusion with a balance of light and shadow.
The film by the Chilean actress and director follows Carmen's life in the mid-1970s, when society was shaken by strong social conflicts.
Carmen lives a life without shock: it is the winter holidays and while the woman is in charge of the renovation of the house by the sea, the family comes and goes from Santiago.
Until one day a priest asked her to take care of a young man hiding in the parish ...
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LE PARFUM VERT by Nicolas Pariser with Sandrine Kiberlain, Vincent Lacoste, Rüdiger Vogler.
QUINZAINE DES REALISATEURS.
A famous actor dies poisoned on stage: all suspicions are pinned on the young Martin, but on his trail - in addition to the police - there is also the mysterious organization that plotted the murder.
With the help of his friend Claire, the boy embarks on a breathtaking adventure to clear himself and save his own life.
