Cannes Film Festival toppers Pierre Viot and Gilles Jacob finally announced the line-up today (22 April) for this year's 50th annoversary of the event.
Opening Film:The Fifth Element (Luc Besson) Gaumont
in competition:The Ice Storm (Ang Lee) Good Machine Il principe di Hombourg (Marco Bellochio) Sacis Call It Love (Nick Cassavetes) Miramax The Brave (Johnny Depp) Icon (10.5.97) The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan) Alliance Funny Games (Michael Haneke) AustrianFC L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson) La Femme defendue (Philippe Harel) Unagi (Shoei Imamura) Assassin(s) (Matthieu Kassovitz) Studio Canal + The Well (Samantha Lang) Southern Star Nil By Mouth (Gary Oldman) Kini & Adams (Idrissa Ouedraogo) Sales Co Western (Manuel Poirier) The Truce (Francesco Rosi) Capitol Happy Together (Wong-kar Wai) Fortissimo The End of Violence (Wim Wenders) CiBy Sales Welcome to Sarajevo (Michael Winterbottom) Film Four Keep Cool (Zhang Yimou) UGC/Fortissimo
Out of Competition:Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh) Castle Rock Al Massir (Destiny) (Youssef Chahine) The Blackout (Abel Ferrara) MDP Nirvana (Gabrielle Tornatore) (Capitol) Voyage to the Beginning of the World (Manoel de Oliveira) Gemini Ghosts (Stan Winston)
Closing FilmAbsolute Power (Clint Eastwood) Castle Rock
This year's international jury consists of:
Isabelle Adjani (president)
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Un Certain Regard
Opening FilmThe Serpent's Kiss (Philippe Rousselet) J&M
Other FilmsLa Cruz (Alejandro Agresti) Le Frère (Alexei Balabanov) The House (Sharunas Bartas) American Perfekt (Paul Chart) La buena estrella (Ricardo Franco) Histoire(s) du cinema (2 chapters) (Jean-Luc Godard) Marius et Jeannette (Robert Guediguian) Wind Echoing in My Being (Leon Soo Il) Akrebin Yolculugu (Omer Kavur) Twelve Storeys (Eric Khoo) Love & Death on Long Island (Richard Kwietniowksi) Sales Co In the Company of Men (Neil Labute) Her Majesty, Mrs Brown (John Madden) Miramax ABC Manhattan (Amir Naderi) Sunday (Jonathan Nossiter) CFP? Witman Fiuk (The Witman Boys) (Janos Szasz) Hungarofilm? Marcello Mastroianni: mi ricordo, si mi ricordo (Anna Maria Tato) Inside Out (Rob Tregenza) Private Confessions (Liv Ullman) Sales Co East Palace, West Palace (Zhang Yuan) Fortissimo
Closing Film
Already announced was the selection for the Critics' Week, a seperate sidebar that also runs
Junk Mail (Pal Sletaune/Norway) Nordisk Faraw (Abdoulaye Ascofaré/Mali) This World, Then the Fireworks (Michael Oblowitz/US) Le mani forti (Franco Bernini/Italy) Karakter (Mike Van Diem/Netherlands) First Floor Bent (Sean Mathias/UK) Film Four Insomnia (Erik Skjoldbjaerg/Norway) Nordisk
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