The official selections for the Cannes Film Festival have been announced.
Without going into everything, the Jury this year is full of people who I love without necessarily trusting them to judge a damn thing about movies (President of the Jury: Wong Kar-Wai).
The films in competition:
–L’amico di famiglia, Paolo Sorrentino [The Friend of the Family]
–Babel, Alejandro González Iñárritu
–Il caimano, Nanni Moretti [The Caiman]
–Fast Food Nation, Richard Linklater
–Flandres, Bruno Dumont
–Idigènes, Rachid Bourchareb [Natives]
–Iklimler, Nuri Bilge Ceylan [Climates]
–Juventude em Marcha, Pedro Costa [Youth in March]
–El laberinto del fauno, Guillermo del Toro [Pan’s Labyrinth]
–Laitakaupungin valot, Aki Kaurismäki
–Marie-Antoinette, Sofia Coppola
–Quand j’étais chanteur, Xavier Giannoli [When I Was a Singer]
–La raison du plus faible, Lucas Belvaux [The Weakest Reason]
–Red Road, Andrea Arnold (first film)
–Selon Charlie, Nicole Garcia [According to Charlie]
–Southland Tales, Richard Kelly
–Summer Palace, Lou Ye
–The Wind that Shakes the Barley, Ken Loach
–Volver, Pedro Almodóvar [Return]
A lot to be excited about, director-wise; mostly it makes up for the extraordinarily dubious choice of opening with Ron Howard’s The Da Vinci Code. And as always, I’m extremely jealous that I can’t be in attendance.