Tag: Film Festival
Festival de Cannes Official Competition Prospectus – Gisaengchung / Parasite
GISAENGCHUNG / PARASITE BONG Joon Ho — SOUTH KOREA — 132 minutes IN A NUTSHELL An impoverished Korean family, burdened by debt and poverty, live…
Festival de Cannes Official Competition Prospectus – Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood
ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD Quentin TARANTINO — UNITED STATES OF AMERICA — 159 minutes IN A NUTSHELL Firstly, how do you describe any…
Festival de Cannes Official Competition Prospectus – Frankie
FRANKIE Ira SACHS — FRANCE, PORTUGAL — 98 minutes IN A NUTSHELL Three generations grapple with a life-changing experience during one day of a vacation in…
Festival de Cannes Official Competition Prospectus – Le Jeune Ahmed / Young Ahmed
LE JEUNE AHMED / YOUNG AHMED Luc DARDENNE, Jean-Pierre DARDENNE — BELGIUM, FRANCE — 84 minutes IN A NUTSHELL Ahmed (Idir Ben Addi) is a 13-year-old Muslim…
Festival de Cannes Official Competition Prospectus – A Hidden Life
A HIDDEN LIFE Terrence MALICK — GERMANY, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA — 173 minutes IN A NUTSHELL A tale of the farmer, Franz Jägerstätter (August Diehl), and…
Festival de Cannes Official Competition Prospectus – La Gomera / The Whistlers
LA GOMERA / THE WHISTLERS Corneliu PORUMBOIU — ROMANIA, FRANCE, GERMANY — 97 minutes IN A NUTSHELL Cristi (Vlad Ivanov), is a corrupt Bucharest cop who has…
Festival de Cannes Official Competition Prospectus – Dolor Y Gloria / Pain and Glory
DOLOR Y GLORIA / PAIN AND GLORY Pedro ALMODOVAR — SPAIN — 112 minutes IN A NUTSHELL In Pedro Almodovar’s latest and somewhat semi-autobiographical film,…
Festival de Cannes Official Competition Prospectus – Little Joe
LITTLE JOE Jessica HAUSNER — AUSTRIA, UNITED KINGDOM, GERMANY — 105 minutes IN A NUTSHELL Alice (Emily Beecham), a single mother, is a dedicated senior plant breeder…
Festival de Cannes Official Competition Prospectus – Sorry We Missed You
SORRY WE MISSED YOU Ken LOACH — UK, FRANCE, BELGIUM — 100 minutes IN A NUTSHELL Ken Loach’s latest film deals with zero-hour contracts and the complications…
Festival de Cannes Official Competition Prospectus – Atlantique
ATLANTIQUE / ATLANTICS Mati DIOP — FRANCE, SENEGAL, BELGIUM — 104 minutes IN A NUTSHELL In Mati Diop’s debut feature, a young woman named Ada (Mama Sané)…
Festival de Cannes Official Competition Prospectus – Bacurau
BACURAU Kleber MENDONÇA FILHO, Juliano DORNELLES — BRAZIL, FRANCE — 132 minutes IN A NUTSHELL Set slightly in the future, the film follows Teresa (Bárbara Colen) who…
Festival de Cannes Official Competition Prospectus – Les Misérables
LES MISÉRABLES Ladj LY — FRANCE — 103 minutes IN A NUTSHELL This urban drama examines the hostility between police and civilians set in a…
Festival de Cannes Official Competition Prospectus – The Dead Don’t Die
The Dead Don’t Die Jim JARMUSCH — USA — 103 minutes IN A NUTSHELL Strange things seem to be occurring in the small peaceful town…
Cannes: Video – Nadine Labaki Talks About Coming Back to Cannes
Female filmmaker, Nadine Labaki, returns to the Cannes Film Festival this year. This time, as the President of the Un Certain Regard jury. Previous, the…
