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Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway, all well and good, but Indian reports on the ongoing Cannes film festival have been far more interested in the fact that 70 year old Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan appears in the film, even if it's in a one scene cameo you might miss if you blinked twice and weren't waiting for this as the high point of the picture (as many Indians will be).
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“Actor?” is the first ever feature film in documentary history to be animated. It details the trials and tribulations of actors: working or ‘resting.’ “Actor?” will screen May 16th at 1:30pm & May 18th at 3:30pm both screenings will take place at Palais F in Cannes.
The 76-minute film culls the best from interviews with hundreds of actors, some big stars and some character actors. Beloved celebrity interviewees include Ed Asner (Up&r...
In Competition
Directed by : Jim JARMUSCH
Country: UNITED KINGDOM, GERMANY
Year: 2013
Duration: 123.00 minutes
Synopsis
Set against the romantic desolation of Detroit and Tangier, an underground musician, deeply depressed by the direction of human activities, reunites with his resilient and enigmatic lover.
Their love story has already endured several centuries at least, but their debauched idyll is soon disrupted by her wild and ...
In Competition
Directed by : Roman POLANSKI
Country: FRANCE
Year: 2013
Duration: 96.00 minutes
Synopsis
Alone in a Paris theater after a long day of auditioning actresses for the lead role in his new play, writer-director Thomas complains on the phone about the poor caliber of talent he has seen. No actress has what it takes to play his lead female character-a woman who enters into an agreement with her male counterpart to dominate him as her slave...
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Un Certain Regard
Directed by : Mohammad RASOULOF
Country: IRAN
Year: 2013
Duration: 125.00 minutes
Synopsis
Khosrow and Morteza set out on a mission to kill someone. The assassination ought to be arranged as a suicide. At the last minute however, they are obliged to change their initial plans…
Credits
Mohammad RASOULOF - Director
Mohammad RASOULOF - Screenplay
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In Competition
Directed by : James GRAY
Country: USA, FRANCE
Year: 2013
Duration: 119.00 minutes
Synopsis
1921. In search of a new start and the American dream, Ewa Cybulski and her sister Magda sail to New York from their native Poland. When they reach Ellis Island, doctors discover that Magda is ill, and the two women are separated. Ewa is released onto the mean streets of Manhattan while her sister is quarantined. Alone, with nowhere ...
Filmfestivals.com correspondent Elise Prado gets the scoop on the new Alexander Payne film, "Nebraska," as it premieres May 23.
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Un Certain Regard
Directed by : Katrin GEBBE
Country: GERMANY
Year: 2013
Duration: 110.00 minutes
Synopsis
Young Tore belongs to the Jesus FreakS, a Christian punk movement rebelling against established religion whilst at the same time following Jesus' precepts of love.
One day, in what appears to be a miracle, Tore manages to repair a car which has broken down and gets to know the driver, BENNO.
Before long, Tore moves into a tent in Ben...
Un Certain Regard
Directed by : Lav DIAZ
Country: PHILIPPINES
Year: 2013
Duration: 250.00 minutes
Synopsis
A man is wrongly jailed for murder while the real killer roams free. The murderer is an intellectual frustrated with his country's never-ending cycle of betrayal and apathy. The convict is a simple man who finds life in prison more tolerable when something mysterious and strange starts happening t...
In Competition
Directed by : Arnaud DES PALLIÈRES
Country: FRANCE, GERMANY
Year: 2013
Duration: 121.00 minutes
Synopsis
In the sixteenth century, somewhere in the Cevennes, Michael Kohlhaas, a prosperous horse merchant, leads a comfortable and happy family life. Victim of an injustice, this righteous and honest man raises an army and plunders cities to restore his right.
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In Competition
Directed by : Alexander PAYNE
Country: USA
Year: 2012
Duration: 110.00 minutes
Synopsis
A poor old man living in Montana escapes repeatedly from his house to go to Nebraska to collect a sweepstakes prize he thinks he has won. Frustrated by his increasing dementia, his family debates putting him into a nursing home -- until one of his two sons finally offers to take his father by car, even as he realizes the futility...
Un Certain Regard
Directed by : Hiner SALEEM
Country: KURD, FRANCE, GERMANY
Year: 2013
Duration: 100.00 minutes
Synopsis
After the fall of Saddam Hussein, Baran, a Kurdish independence war hero, resolves to accept a position in a godforsaken village at the borders of Iran and Turkey, an illegal trafficking Mecca.
There he meets Govend, a beautiful young woman who has come to work as the teacher in the newly-opened school despite her twelve brot...
Un Certain Regard
Directed by : Diego QUEMADA-DIEZ
Country: MEXICO, SPAIN
Year: 2013
Duration: 110.00 minutes
Synopsis
Juan, Sara and Samuel, all 15 years old, flee from Guatemala towards the USA. On their journey through Mexico they meet Chauk, a Tzotzil indian who does not speak Spanish and has no official documents. They all believe they will find a better world beyond the USA-Mexico border but they ru...
In Competition
Directed by : Mahamat-Saleh HAROUN
Country: CHAD, FRANCE
Year: 2013
Duration: 101.00 minutes
Synopsis
Despite a paralyzed leg that could have barred most avenues, Grigris, 25 year old, dreams of being a dancer. A challenge. But his dreams are dashed when his uncle falls critically ill. To save him, Grigris resolves to work for petrol traffickers...
Credits
Mahamat-Saleh HAROUN - Dir...
In Competition
Directed by : Nicolas WINDING REFN
Country: DENMARK, FRANCE
Year: 2012
Duration: 90.00 minutes
Synopsis
Julian, an American fugitive from justice, runs a boxing club in Bangkok as a front for his drug business.
His mother, the head of a vast criminal organization, arrives from the US to collect the body of her favorite son, Billy. Julian’s brother has just been killed after having savagely murdered a ...
Un Certain Regard
Directed by : Lucía PUENZO
Country: ARGENTINA, FRANCE, SPAIN, NORWAY
Year: 2013
Duration: 93.00 minutes
Synopsis
Patagonia, 1960. A German physician meets an Argentinean family and follows them on the long desert road to Bariloche where Eva, Enzo and their three children are going to open a lodging house by the Nahuel Huapi lake. This model family reawakens his obsession with purity and perf...
Un Certain Regard
Directed by : Claire DENIS
Country: FRANCE, GERMANY
Year: 2012
Duration: 100.00 minutes
Synopsis
Captain on a container-ship, Marco Silvestri is called urgently back to Paris. His sister, Sandra, is desperate… her husband has committed suicide, the family business has gone under, her daughter has gone adrift. Sandra accuses the powerful businessman, Edouard Laporte responsible. Marco moves into the buildin...
Un Certain Regard
Directed by : Chloé ROBICHAUD
Country: CANADA
Year: 2013
Duration: 97.00 minutes
Synopsis
Sarah is a gifted young middle-distance runner. Her life changes when she’s offered admission to Quebec’s best university athletics program, in Montreal - far from her suburban Quebec City home. Sarah doesn’t have her mother’s financial support for the move, or any support at all: her mother worries...
In Competition
Directed by : Steven SODERBERGH
Country: USA
Year: 2013
Duration: 118.00 minutes
Synopsis
Before Elvis, before Elton John, Madonna and Lady Gaga, there was Liberace: virtuoso pianist, outrageous entertainer and flamboyant star of stage and television. Liberace lived lavishly and embraced a lifestyle of excess both on and off stage. In summer 1977, handsome young stranger Scott Thorson walked into his dressing room and, des...
Nadine Vinzens catches the stars of Shield of Straw and the press's reaction to the film's first screening in Cannes.
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“RectoVerso” Cannes Premiere, prestige market screening on Tuesday May 21st
Directed by five Indonesian female directors: Marcella Zalianty, Happy Salma, Olga Lydia, Cathy Sharon and Rachel Maryam
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 110 minutes
Subtitle: English
Synopsis: Below
Award: Special Jury Award - Asian International Film Festival 2013
The Premiere will be held tomorrow Tuesday the 21st at 6pm at Star 1, 98 rue d’Antib...
Out of Competition
Directed by : Guillaume CANET
Country: FRANCE
Year: 2012
Duration: 144.00 minutes
Synopsis
New York, 1974. Fifty year-old Chris has just been released on good behavior after several years in prison following a gangland murder. Waiting for him reluctantly outside the prison gates is his younger brother, Frank, a cop with a bright future. Chris and Frank have always been different, and their father, Leon, who’d raised them al...
Un Certain Regard
Directed by : James FRANCO
Country: USA
Year: 2012
Duration: 110.00 minutes
Synopsis
Based on the acclaimed novel by William Faulkner, AS I LAY DYING follows a family through their turmoil-filled journey to bring their mother to her gravesite.
Credits
James FRANCO - Director
James FRANCO - Screenplay
M...
