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Aug 5,2007-Aug 12,2007 |
Europeans dominate Cannes Film Festival
Italians include Nanni Moretti, Paolo Sorrentino and Monica Bellucci
By Angela Baldassarre
Originally Published: 2006-05-14
This year Italy is represented by not one, but two movies in the competition section of the Cannes Film Festival, while Canada has none. Back at la Croisette is Nanni Moretti (whose The Son's Room won in 2001) with The Caiman, his controversial look at Italian politics and Silvio Berlusconi. Also vying for the Palme D'or is Paolo Sorrentino's L'amico di famiglia, about a moneylender who believes he's doing good by helping out families.
And though there are a large number of little-known filmmakers in the competition section this year, the big-name stars still maintain a healthy presence. Opening the fest, out-of-competition, is Ron Howard's controversial The Da Vinci Code, whose high profile is paralleled with Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Babe starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Gael García Bernal; Sofia Coppola's Marie-Antoinette with Kirsten Dunst; and Richard Kelly's Southland Tales with the Rock, Seann William Scott, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Mandy Moore and Miranda Richardson.
As the first director ever to have films in the main competition and Un Certain Regard sidebar, Richard Linklater has scored a berth for Fast Food Nation starring Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette, Kris Kristofferson, Avril Lavigne and Greg Kinnear in the former, and one for A Scanner Darkly with Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Woody Harrelson and Robert Downey Jr. in the latter.
"The Festival de Cannes is the privileged venue where great directors present their latest opuses," says festival artistic director Thierry Fremaux. "This year, we'll find once again Nanni Moretti (Golden Palm in 2001 with The Son's Room), who returns with his new film, The Caiman), Aki Kaurismäki (Grand Prix 2002 for The Man Without a Past), who presents Lights of the Suburb, Pedro Almodovar (Best Director Prize in 1999 for All About My Mother), who comes back with Volver, Ken Loach (Prize for Best Script in 2002 with Sweet Sixteen) who presents The Wind That Shakes the Barley or finally the French Bruno Dumont and Nicole Garcia, who've already come in Competition. But amid the whole Competition, new names appear."
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