Tuesday 28 May 2013

Cannes 2013

The Cannes Film Festival of 2013 has just finished with the Palme d'or going to a French film called La Vie d'Adèle - Chapitre 1 & 2 (Blue is the Warmest Colour) by Abdellatif Kechiche. Seems to be a 3 hour lesbian romance starring Lea Seydoux. I'm on board.















The Grand Prix went to the Coen Brothers for Inside Llewyn Davis, which has garnered some pretty good reviews. I'll watch anything they do but the setting doesn't really grab me (1960's New York folk music scene).


Here are the other films that were vying for the top awards.
  • BEHIND THE CANDELABRA directed by Steven SODERBERGH
  • BORGMAN directed by Alex VAN WARMERDAM
  • GRIGRIS directed by Mahamat-Saleh HAROUN
  • HELI directed by Amat ESCALANTE
  • INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS directed by Ethan COEN, Joel COEN
  • JEUNE & JOLIE (YOUNG & BEAUTIFUL) directed by François OZON
  • JIMMY P. (PSYCHOTHERAPY OF A PLAINS INDIAN) directed by Arnaud DESPLECHIN
  • LA GRANDE BELLEZZA (THE GREAT BEAUTY) directed by Paolo SORRENTINO
  • LA VÉNUS À LA FOURRURE (VENUS IN FUR) directed by Roman POLANSKI
  • LA VIE D'ADÈLE - CHAPITRE 1 & 2 (BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOUR) directed by Abdellatif KECHICHE
  • LE PASSÉ (THE PAST) directed by Asghar FARHADI
  • MICHAEL KOHLHAAS directed by Arnaud DES PALLIÈRES
  • NEBRASKA directed by Alexander PAYNE
  • ONLY GOD FORGIVES directed by Nicolas WINDING REFN
  • ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE directed by Jim JARMUSCH
  • SOSHITE CHICHI NI NARU (Like Father, Like Son) directed by KORE-EDA Hirokazu
  • THE IMMIGRANT directed by James GRAY
  • TIAN ZHU DING (A TOUCH OF SIN) directed by JIA Zhangke
  • UN CHÂTEAU EN ITALIE (A CASTLE IN ITALY) directed by Valeria BRUNI TEDESCHI
  • WARA NO TATE (Shield of Straw) directed by Takashi MIIKE


The films that I'm keen on from this list are Le Passe, La Grande Bellezza and maybe Michael Kohlhass and Only God Forgives.

Check out all the winners here.

2 comments:

  1. Hello, How are you?
    Yesterday, I enjoyed a lesson and chatting about
    movies.Especially,Infanal affair.After lesson
    one funny movie,which I want you to watch hit upon my mind. It called Irina Palm and is British movie.It stared Marianne Faithful.

    Hiroshi Kokubo
    hiroshi.kokubo225@gmail.com

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    1. Hi Hiroshi. Thanks for your message. I'll look into that film when I get a chance. Cheers.

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