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Cannes competition
It looks like a battle of the auteurs at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, which begins May 13.
Festival programmers announced the lineup for competition films today, and it’s packed with some of the most high-profile directors in the world.
Quentin Tarantino will be bringing his World War II Brad Pitt star vehicle “Inglourious Basterds” to the Croisette, and it’ll have the longest running time of the 20 competitors, 2 hours and 40 minutes.
Tarantino will be facing such an Asian-heavy lineup that includes Johnnie To, with “Vengeance,” Park Chan-Wook with “Thirst,” Lou Ye with “Spring Fever,” Brillante Mendoza, with “Kinatay,” and Tsai Ming-Liang with “Visage.”
The king of Spanish film, Pedro Almodovar, will be screening his new movie, “Broken Embraces,” starring Penelope Cruz. And Jane Campion will be screening “Bright Star.” Also on board are Ang Lee, with his comedy “Taking Woodstock,” Ken Loach with “Looking for Eric,” Gaspar Noe with “Enter the Void” and enfant terrible Lars Von Trier with “Antichrist.” Trailers for the Von Trier flick have been stirring interest on the Internet, mainly because of a writhing Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg making love in the roots of a giant tree.
Michael Haneke will be bring his thriller “The White Ribbon” to Cannes, and Marco Bellocchio will explore a love affair of Mussolini in “Vincere.”
Other films include Andrea Arnold’s “Fish Tank,” Jacques Audiard’s “Un Prophete,” Isabel Coixet’s “Map of the Sounds of Tokyo,” Xavier Giannoli’s “A L’Origine,” Alain Resnais’ “Les Herbes Folles” and Elie Suleiman’s “The Time That Remains,” an epic about the creation of Israel.
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