The 49th Cannes International Film Festival in 1996 took place from May 9th to May 20th, 1996.
competition
The following films were shown in the festival competition in 1996:
Movie title
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Director
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Country of production
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Actor (selection)
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On the eighth day
|
Jaco Van Dormael
|
France , Belgium , Great Britain
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Daniel Auteuil , Pascal Duquenne , Miou-Miou
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Breaking the waves
|
Lars from Trier
|
Denmark , Sweden , France , Netherlands , Norway , Iceland
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Emily Watson , Stellan Skarsgård , Katrin Cartlidge
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Crash
|
David Cronenberg
|
Canada , UK
|
James Spader , Holly Hunter , Elias Koteas
|
Thieves of the night
|
André Téchiné
|
France
|
Catherine Deneuve , Daniel Auteuil
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Three lives and one death
|
Raul Ruiz
|
France , Portugal
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Marcello Mastroianni , Chiara Mastroianni
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Fargo
|
Joel Coen
|
United States
|
Frances McDormand , William H. Macy , Steve Buscemi
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Fish & chips
|
Stephen Frears
|
Great Britain , Ireland
|
Colm Meaney
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Feeling and seduction
|
Bernardo Bertolucci
|
Italy , France , Great Britain
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Liv Tyler , Jeremy Irons , Sinéad Cusack
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Me and my love
|
Arnaud Desplechin
|
France
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Mathieu Amalric , Emmanuelle Devos
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Kansas City
|
Robert Altman
|
USA , France
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Jennifer Jason Leigh , Miranda Richardson , Harry Belafonte
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Life: a lie
|
Jacques Audiard
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France
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Mathieu Kassovitz , Anouk Grinberg , Jean-Louis Trintignant
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Lies & Secrets *
|
Mike Leigh
|
France , Great Britain
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Timothy Spall , Phyllis Logan , Brenda Blethyn
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Nanguo zaijan, nanguo
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Hsiao-hsien Hou
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Taiwan
|
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Po di Sangui
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Flora Gomes
|
France , Guinea-Bissau , Tunisia , Portugal
|
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Prea târziu
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Lucian Pintilie
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Romania
|
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The Quiet Room
|
Rolf de Heer
|
Australia , Italy , France
|
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Ridicule - On the ridiculousness of appearances
|
Patrice Leconte
|
France
|
Charles Berling , Jean Rochefort , Fanny Ardant
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The Sunchaser
|
Michael Cimino
|
United States
|
Woody Harrelson , Jon Seda , Anne Bancroft
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Tierra
|
Julio Médem
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Spain
|
Carmelo Gomez
|
Seductive moon
|
Chen Kaige
|
PR China , Hong Kong
|
Leslie Cheung , Gong Li
|
Clouds pass by
|
Aki Kaurismäki
|
Finland
|
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The second time
|
Mimmo Calopresti
|
France , Italy
|
Francesca Antonelli , Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
|
* = Golden palm
International jury
That year, Francis Ford Coppola was the jury president. He presided over a jury with the following members: Michael Ballhaus , Nathalie Baye , Henry Chapier , Atom Egoyan , Eiko Ishioka , Krzysztof Piesiewicz , Greta Scacchi , Antonio Tabucchi and Trần Anh Hùng .
Award winners
-
Golden Palm : Lies & Secrets
- Grand Jury Prize: Breaking the Waves
- Special prize of the jury: Crash
- Best Actors: Daniel Auteuil and Pasquale Duquenne in The Eighth Day
- Best Actress: Brenda Blethyn in Lies & Secrets
- Best Director: Joel Coen for Fargo
- Best script: Jacques Audiard and Alain Le Henry for Life: a Lie
Further prices
Un Certain Regard
The Un Certain Regard series featured the following films this year:
Al Pacino's Looking for Richard by Al Pacino , Die Bettlektüre by Peter Greenaway , Cwał by Krzysztof Zanussi , Fourbi by Alain Tanner , Irma Vep by Olivier Assayas , I Shot Andy Warhol by Mary Harron , Last Exit Reno by Paul Thomas Anderson , Love Serenade by Shirley Barrett , Mothers & Sons of Terry George , Defenseless - Shadows Over Carolina by Anjelica Huston , Summer by Éric Rohmer .
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