31ª Mostra Internacional de Cinema

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ALL OUT OF COMPETITION FILMS

It is well known that many good films are left out of the 22-film selection of an important festival such as Cannes (Jornal da Mostra nº 564 and 566). The yearly production, besides all crises announced by the followers of cinema industry, is still growing. In all countries the matter is more of cultural identity than of industry. Thanks to this concept, support to cinema is still high and cinema-goers from all over the world will go on profiting.

Still about the panorama of the official selection of the 61st Cannes Festival, four other films will compete for attention. The Korean THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE WEIRD, by Kim Jee-woon and three by American directors. The new Woody Allen, VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA, and two new candidates to blockbusters: KUNG FU PANDA, by Mark Osborne and John Stevenson, and INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL, by Steven Spielberg.

Seven other films will have special presentations: OF TIME AND THE CITY, by British Terence Davies; CHELSEA ON THE ROCKS, by American Abel Ferrara; SANGUEPAZZO, by Italian Marco Tullio Giordana; C`EST DUR D`ÊTRE AIMÉ PAR DES CONS, by French debutant Daniel Leconte; ASHES OF TIME REDUX, a re-editing of the classic western by Chinese Wong Kar Wai; ROMAN POLANSKI: WANTED AND DESIRED, a documentary by American Marina Zenovich and THE THIRD WAVE, by Australian Alison Thompson, a documentary about four volunteers who cross Sri Lanka and its zones devastated by the 2004 tsunami, three years later. The film will be presented in a special session by the president of the jury, Sean Penn.

Three other titles will be the midnight sessions’ attractions - MARADONA BY KUSTURICA, is the documentary by Serbian Emir Kusturica about the controversial Argentinean soccer idol; SURVEILLANCE, by American Jennifer Lynch, the daughter of director David Lynch; and THE CHASER, American remake of THE MURDERER, directed by the same Korean Na Hong-Jim. The latter will certainly be one of the chosen by Quentin Tarantino, actor and filmmaker who will present this year’s cinema lesson in Cannes.


English version: Laura Rebessi

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