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\nCannes International Film Festival<\/B>

\n13-25 May 2015

\nCannes, France

\nCannes website<\/A>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In its 68-year history, Cannes has never been short of stars and scandals but it seems that in more recent years the darker, bolder, more daring films are to be found in the sidebars rather than in the main Competition line-up. And while 2014 proved particularly strong with It Follows<\/i><\/a>, When Animals Dream<\/i><\/a> and Ryan Gosling\u2019s Lost River<\/i><\/a>, a first glance at this year\u2019s programme promises another exciting festival to come.<\/p>\n

Read our 2014 Cannes coverage<\/A>.<\/div>\n

Opening on 13 May with Emmanuelle Bercot\u2019s Standing Tall <\/i><\/b>, there seems to be a focus on French social drama this year, but beyond that, the Competition still includes a number of intriguing works from both new and already established directors. Having won the Un Certain Regard award in 2009 for Dogtooth<\/i><\/a>, Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos<\/a> returns to the festival with what might be one of this year\u2019s boldest and presumably funniest sci-fi love stories, The Lobster<\/i><\/b>, while Gomorra<\/i>-director Matteo Garonne presents his first English-language film with Tale of Tales<\/i>, based on the collection of fairy tales of 17th century writer Giambattista Basile, who predates more familliar household names such as the Brothers Grimm, Andersen or Perrault. We will also be checking out Todd Haynes\u2019s 50s lesbian melodrama Carol<\/i><\/b>, Paolo Sorrentino\u2019s Youth<\/i><\/b>, his eagerly awaited follow up to The Great Beauty<\/i><\/a>, as well as the latest offerings form Denis Villeneuve, Sicario<\/i><\/b>, and Gus Van Sant’s The Sea of Trees<\/i><\/b>, starring Matthew McConaughey as an American man lost in Japan\u2019s suicide forest. Plus, we look forward to George Miller\u2019s Mad Max Fury Road<\/i><\/b> and Justin Kurzel\u2019s Macbeth<\/i><\/b>, both screening \u2018out of competition\u2019. <\/p>\n

In addition, this year\u2019s Un Certain Regard strand features new works by exciting directors including Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Journey To The Shore<\/i><\/b>), Brillante Mendoza (Trap<\/i><\/b>) and Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Cemetery of Splendour<\/i><\/b>), alongside two promising Korean entries: The Shameless<\/i><\/b> by Oh Seung-Uk and Madonna<\/i><\/b> by Shin Suwon. And we also look forward to a special screening of Gaspar Noé’s latest offering Love<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in Cannes, the films that stand out from the line-up in the Directors\u2019 Fortnight programme are US director Jeremy Saulnier\u2019s follows up to his brilliant Blue Ruin<\/i><\/a> with Green Room<\/i><\/b>, a story of punk rockers battling neo-Nazis starring Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots and Patrick Stewart, and Takashi Miike\u2019s gangster-vampire hybrid thriller Yakuza Apocalypse: The Great War Of The Underworld<\/i><\/a>, which receives a special presentation. Plus, we will also try to catch at least one of Miguel Gomes\u2019s Arabian Nights<\/i><\/b>, the three-film contemporary epic from the Portuguese director, which is loosely based on Scheherazade\u2019s tales of \u2018One Thousand And One Nights\u2019 but essentially devolves into a chronicle of Portugal\u2019s economic malaise.<\/p>\n

Pamela Jahn<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

For more information on the full line-up, visit the Cannes website<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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