72. Edition of the most important film festivals in the world is bursting with big names: Quentin Tarantino, Pedro Almodóvar, or Alain Delon. German were hardly taken into account. A couple of Directors…
1. The Opening Film
The American Indie icon Jim Jarmusch opens at the 14. May the Festival. “The Dead Don’t die” presents the film in a tongue-in-cheek Zombie movie. Billy Murray and Adam Driver play a slightly dorky cops-Team that gets to do it with any amount of bloody undead. In the satirical horror flick also Tilda Swinton, and Danny Glover, as well as the music of the veterans Iggy Pop and Tom Waits. On the Red carpet should make it to the Festival kick-off will be so tight.
2. The Competition
Subsequently, a further twenty films compete for the Palme d’or. The Festival has, as always, great name, many regulars from previous years, but also a few newcomers. Of Spain, Grand master Pedro Almodóvar presents his new Melodrama, from Belgium, the two-time palm winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. From the UK, veteran Ken Loach comes, the USA will be represented by Terrence Malick, Canada by Director Wunderkind Xavier Dolan. This time France is, with the exception of Abdellatif Kechiche (“Blue is a warm color”), with less well-known name. The competition complete films from China and South Korea, Brazil and Palestine.
As always casual: Brad Pitt in Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”
3. Quentin Tarantino
Only a few days before the Festival start, the organizers were able to Proudly announce the long-awaited Film of the Star Director, Quentin Tarantino. The new epic “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” was first in these days on the cutting table ready. Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie are the main actors in a Drama that is set in the late 1960s and the film capital of Hollywood in the times of the Hippie movement circles.
4. The German
The neighbouring country of France has it in the Cannes traditionally difficult. German Directors are invited by the Festival-makers on the Côte d’azur rather rare. The palms race of 2019 will be held, once again, without a German filmmaker. In the competition in Germany in 2019, is represented by at least Four Co-productions were created with German funding. The German Film is in this respect, but, as the Austrian Jessica was invited to Hausner with “Little Joe” for the competition. In a series of Werner Herzog’s new Film “Family Romance, LLC”, which he filmed in Japan, with Amateur actors.
The big show-run on the Red carpet of the festival can begin
5. The Jury
The Mexican Director Alejandro González Iñárritu this year is at the top of a prominent Jury, on may 25. May will announce the winner of the Golden palm. With the Jury the Actresses are Elle Fanning (USA), and Maimouna N’diaye (Burkina Faso), as well as lots of Director celebrities: Alice Rohrwacher (Italy), Enki Bilal, and Robin Campillo, from France, Kelly Reichardt (USA) and the Greek Yorgos Lanthimos.
6. In addition to series and Specials
Also Cannes has demonstrations of its next series and Special, where everything New from the world of the film is shown, what is not landed due to various reasons in competition for the palm trees. As world premieres, for example, the Elton-John-Bio-Picture “Rocket announced It is”. And also the new Film by veteran Claude Lelouch (81), “Les plus belles années d’une vie” with the legendary actor-Pair of Anouk Aimée and Jean-will be able to see Trintignant Louis. In the section “Un certain regard” after all, films by such prominent Directors such as Bruno Dumont, Christophe Honoré.
In “Rocket Man” is his rise to world star: Elton John
7. Golden Honor-Palm
To prominence with the honorary award of the festival, of course. The Golden honor-palm at Cannes this year, the acting icon Alain Delon. The 1935-born performer since the late 1950s, in the cinema present, turned over 80 films. He is one of the great actors of European cinema. Among his great Successes in movies like “Only the sun was witness”, “The ice-cold angel” and “The Leopard”. With the award, the wonderful presence of the legendary actor should be acknowledged “in the history of film,” said the Festival.
8. The Netflix Dispute
The Festival on the Côte d’azur has made in recent years to the forefront in the fight against the participation of films from the Streaming portal Netflix. In contrast to the Festivals in Berlin, Venice and Cannes in competition no productions that don’t run then in the cinema. Cannes understands that as a show of Solidarity for the cinema. New films by star Directors such as Martin Scorsese and Steven Soderbergh were not on the invitation list. Out of competition two parts of the new series of in Hollywood popular Danish Nicolas Winding Refn: “To Old to run after all The Young” – produced by the Amazon group.
The German cinema in Cannes represents: the Austrian Jessica Hausner
9. The Women
As a “feminist offensive” referred to a German newspaper in a not very serious manner, the fact that the Festival has this year in the competition, four films by women. For Cannes standards this is a lot of, had not covered the Festival leaders in this respect in the past years, can be proud of. “In the men’s Club of Cannes, you could call that progress,” mocked the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” in the run-up. Except for the Austrian Jessica Hausner, the three French Director Mati Diop, Céline Sciamma and Justine Triet at the palms race are represented.
10. The Final Film
French is also the conclusion of the festival. Of great interest then is the new Film by the successful Director Duo Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano, “Hors Normes” (“The Specials are likely to”). In addition to the professionals, Vincent Cassel, and Reda Kateb many lay people. In the social Comedy, it comes to autistic young people. Nakache/Toledano landed in 2011, “intouchables” a hit and shot two years ago, the wonderfully upbeat wedding Satire “life is a Festival”.