CANNES Festival 2019

[Chris Knipp]

Directors' Fortnight /Quinzaine des réalisateurs announced.

The Directors’ Fortnight runs from 15-25 May. There is some hint of controversy since a Netflix film, Anvari's Wounds, was chosen, and Cannes bars Netflix films. But the Fortnight has been run independently of but concurrently with the Festival since 1969.

Some cool genre variations are featured here. Eggers is the director of the much-admired The Witch (Filmleaf reviewed, 2015). This one casts Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe in a tale drawn from seafarer myths. It's released by A24. Wounds actually debuted at Sundance. It's a psychological horror film starring among others Armie Hammer and Dakota Johnson. Bertrand Bonello's film, set in Haiti in 1962, depicts a return from the dead, a family curse, and sugar plantations. Fabrice Luchini plays the mayor in Pariser's political film. Dogs Don't Wear Pants is a Finnish film about S&M practices. Song Without a Name is about child trafficking in Peru in the Eighties.Guadignino's The Staggering Girl is a 35 min. film directed for the clothing company Valentino and starring Julianne Moore.


ALICE AND THE MAYOR

Directors’ Fortnight lineup
Alice and the Mayor (dir Nicolas Pariser)
And Then We Danced (dir Levan Akin)
Blow It to Bits (dir Lech Kowalski)
Deerskin (dir Quentin Dupieux) – opening film
Dogs Don’t Wear Pants (dir Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää)
First Love (dir Takashi Miike)
An Easy Girl (dir Rebecca Zlotowski)
For the Money (dir Alejo Moguillansky)
Ghost Tropic (dir Bas Devos)
Give Me Liberty (dir Kirill Mikhanovsky)
The Halt (dir Lav Diaz)
The Lighthouse (dir Robert Eggers)
Lillian (dir Andreas Horwath)
Oleg (dir Juris Kursietis)
The Orphanage (dir Shahrbanoo Sadat)
Les Particules (dir Blaise Harrison)
Perdrix (dir Erwan Le Duc)
Sick, Sick, Sick (dir Alice Furtado)
Song Without a Name (dir Melina León)
Tlamess (dir Ala Eddine Slim)
To Live to Sing (dir Johnny Ma)
Wounds (dir Babak Anvari)
Yves (dir Benoît Forgeard) – closing film
Zombi Child (dir Bertrand Bonello)

Special screenings
Red 11 (dir Robert Rodriguez)
The Staggering Girl (dir Luca Guadagnino)