Cannes Line-Up Includes New Films From The Coen Brothers, Nicolas Winding Refn, Alexander Payne, And Roman Polanski
The lineup for the 2013 Cannes Film Festival was released this morning, and as ever it is a list that represents great promise and potential for the coming year in film.
A number of films that we fully expected to see on the list are here:Only God ForgivesfromNicolas Winding Refn,Inside Llewyn Davisfromthe Coen Brothers,Behind The CandelabrafromSteven Soderbergh, along with openerThe Great GatsbyandSofia Coppola’s Un Certain Regard headlinerThe Bling Ring. There are alsoThe ImmigrantfromJames GrayandThe Past, fromA SeparationdirectorAsghar Farhadi.
But there are some surprises here, too, such as the new film fromRoman Polanski, in which he adapts David Ives' stage playVenus In Fur, andAlexander Payne’sNebraska. And there are plenty more potential gems, including films from Denis, Ozon, Miike, Kore-eda, and To. Check out the full list, along with this year’s Cannes poster, below.
Here’s the full lineup:
Opening film (out of competition): The Great Gatsby – Baz Luhrmann
Closing film: Zulu – Jérôme Salle
Competition:
Only God Forgives – Nicolas Winding Refn
Borgman – Alex Van Warmerdam
La grande bellezza (The Great Beauty) – Paolo Sorrentino
Behind The Candelabra – Steven Soderbergh
La Venus à la fourrure (Venus in Fur) – Roman Polanski
Nebraska – Alexander Payne
Jeune et jolie – François Ozon
Wara No Tate (Shield of Straw) – Takashi Miike
La vie d’Adèle – Abdellatif Kechiche
Soshite Chich Ni Naru (Like Father, Like Son) – Hirokazu Kore-eda
Tian Zhy Ding – Zhangke Jia
Grisgris – Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
The Immigrant – James Gray
Le Passé – Asghar Farhadi
Heli – Amat Escalante
Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian) – Arnaud Desplechin
Michael Kohlhaas – Arnaud Despallières
Inside Llewyn Davis – Ethan & Joel Coen
Un Château en Italie – Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi
Out of competition:
All Is Lost – J.C Chandor
Blood Ties – Guillaume Canet
Special screenings:
Otdat Konci – Taisia Igumentseva
Seduced and Abandoned – James Toback
Week of a Champion – Roman Polanski
Stop the Pounding Heart – Roberto Minervini
Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight – Stephen Frears
Max Rose – Daniel Noa
Midnight screenings:
Blind Detective – Johnnie To
Monsoon Shootout – Amit Kumar
Un Certain Regard:
Grand Central – Rebecca Zlotowski
Sarah préfère la course – Chloé Robichaud
Anonymous – Mohammad Rasoulof
La jaula de oro – Diego Quemada-Díez
L’image manquante – Rithy Panh
Bends – Flora Lau
The Bling Ring – Sofia Coppola
L’inconnu du lac – Alain Guiraudie
