COLOGNE - the Cannes 2011 slate seems designed to avoid the pitfalls of competition last year, who do not have produced one winner of Oscar, commercial success or a scandal of great cinema - the three large boxes Mostra worthy of the name must check.
For its 64th Edition, starting Wednesday, Cannes appears intent to reassert its claim to the title of best of the world film festival, with a range of author-heavy that includes Pedro Almodovar, Lars von Trier and Terrence Malick.
The fest also focuses on young people with a generous sampling of the hottest goes-and-venus in film overall, Nicolas Winding Refn, Danish Director of the vehicle Ryan Gosling "Drive," to Julia Leigh, first-timer Aussie behind edgy "sleeping beauty."
On the front of the star, Cannes this year is spoilt for choice, playing safe with big names such as Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Eva Longoria, Jodie Foster, Antonio Banderas and Owen Wilson. Not to mention those of France, President Nicolas Sarkozy and the first lady Carla Bruni, who will likely be pigs the star of the opening night when they appear for the first Woody Allen "midnight in Paris," in which Bruni has a cameo.
But at Cannes, films are the stars, and with a range of competition of this year, the festival really shines.
The hottest ticket is long in gestation "tree of life of Malick." The drama, starring Pitt and Penn, was initially set to bow year last at Cannes before perfectionist Malick withdrew to redesign later. Delay has only enhanced the film enigmatic allure, and expectations are high.
"It was very important to Cannes to have this film because we talked about it for a year," explains Xavier Leherpeur, a critic of films for French cinema CineLive of Studio magazine. "I want to make it great."
Malick was at Cannes that only once before - in 1979, when he won the award the Director for the "days of heaven". But even sight unseen, "Tree of life", screens may 16, is the former favorite to win the Palme d'Or.
That said, Malick has some stiff competition.
Almodovar - which, despite three previous attempts, has not won the first prize in the Cannes - throws his bonete back in the ring with "the skin I live In". The film is a departure from gender to the Spanish captain of melodrama. A horror film, "skin" stars Banderas as a surgeon in plastic that hunting the man who raped his daughter.
Von Trier, who abhors heights (and depressions) with "Antichrist" two years ago, returns with his knife blow to science fiction, "Melancholy." Starring Kirsten Dunst, Kiefer Sutherland and Alexander Skarsgard, the film is ironically called "beautiful film towards the end of the world".
David Gritten, a critic of film for the London Telegraph, said "Melancholia" could be big scandal this year. "Von Trier has probably taken things also that he was able to with the Antichrist," Gritten said, but when it comes to scandals in Cannes, you can never exclude him. ?
If von Trier does not provide in issues of shock, the baton could move to Leigh, whose debut, "sleeping beauty", is an erotic drama about a woman (Emily Browning) that falls in a form of prostitution narcoleptic.
Less scandalous, but all also well considered are duo Belgian cinema and twice winners of gold Palm the Dardenne brothers, returning to competition after an absence of three years with their drama "The Kid with the bike." But other Cannes heavy weights that make up the list of this year seem ready to push the envelope unexpectedly, including Radu Mihaileanu the Romania, whose "The Source of women" tells the story of a group of village women who threaten a sex strike. Then, there normally calm Nanni Moretti, which curiously entitled "we have a Pope" focuses on the relationship between a newly elected Pope and his therapist.
Whether if lineup this year will be always all buzz coming time Oscar - never a certainty, especially after last year - a handful of titles could appeal to the voters of the Academy, including the thriller of action of the Refn "Drive", which is reinforced by the presence of Gosling and Carey young stars Mulligandeux more RCVI to screen at this time. Then there's "We need to talk about Kevin" of British helmer, Lynne Ramsay, who gets the big buzz for its performance by Tilda Swinton and John c. Reilly as the parents of a teenager who goes on a shooting.
As for dark horses, keep an eye for "This must be the place", a drama of language English of "it divo" Director Paolo Sorrentino. If the plot - Gothic rocker-towers-Nazi hunter to avenge his father - do not out-there seems enough to generate interest, Penn in a wig with a mustache and mascara is sure to be one of the most enduring images on the Croisette this year.
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