International Cannes Film Festival 1998

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The 51st International Cannes Film Festival in 1998 took place from May 13th to May 24th, 1998.

competition

The following films were shown in the festival competition in 1998:

Movie title Director Country of production Actor (selection)
April Nanni Moretti Italy , France Nanni Moretti
Claire Dolan Lodge Kerrigan USA , France Katrin Cartlidge , Vincent D'Onofrio
Corazón iluminado Hector Babenco France , Brazil , Argentina
Dance Me to My Song Rolf de Heer Australia
Eternity and a day * Theo Angelopoulos Germany , Greece , France , Italy Bruno Ganz , Isabelle Renauld
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Terry Gilliam United States Johnny Depp , Benicio del Toro , Tobey Maguire
The party Thomas Vinterberg Denmark , Sweden Ulrich Thomsen , Henning Moritzen , Thomas Bo Larsen
The General
(The General) 		John Boorman Great Britain , Ireland Brendan Gleeson , Adrian Dunbar , Sean McGinlay
Hai shang hua Hou Hsiao-Hsien Taiwan
Henry Fool Hal Hartley United States Thomas Jay Ryan , James Urbaniak , Parker Posey
Idiots Lars from Trier Denmark , Sweden , France , Netherlands , Italy Bodil Jørgensen , Jens Albinus , Anne Louise Hassing
Illuminata John Turturro Spain , USA , Japan Susan Sarandon , Ben Gazzara
The class trip Claude Miller France
Khrustalev, machinu! Alexei German Russia , France
Life is Beautiful Roberto Benigni Italy Roberto Benigni , Nicoletta Braschi , Horst Buchholz
The last Dance Tsai Ming-liang Taiwan , France
love life Erick Zonca France Élodie Bouchez , Natacha Régnier
My name is joe Ken Loach Spain , Italy , France , UK , Germany Peter Mullan , Louise Goodall
School of desire Benoît Jacquot France , Luxembourg , Belgium Isabelle Huppert , Vincent Martinez , Marthe Keller
Velvet gold mine Todd Haynes UK , USA Ewan McGregor , Jonathan Rhys Meyers , Christian Bale
La Vendedora de rosas Victor Gaviria Colombia
Those who love me take the train Patrice Chereau France Pascal Greggory , Valeria Bruni Tedeschi , Jean-Louis Trintignant

* = Golden palm

International jury

Martin Scorsese

This year, the American director Martin Scorsese was the jury president. He presided over a jury with the following members: Alain Corneau , Chen Kaige , MC Solaar , Chiara Mastroianni , Lena Olin , Winona Ryder , Zoé Valdés , Sigourney Weaver and Michael Winterbottom .

Award winners

Further prices

Un Certain Regard

In the Un Certain Regard section , the following films were presented this year:

All the Little Animals by Jeremy Thomas , The Apple by Samira Makhmalbaf , Apostle! by Robert Duvall , Included: A Clown by Ingmar Bergman , The Impostors by Stanley Tucci , Love is the Devil by John Maybury , Lulu on the Bridge by Paul Auster , Places in cities by Angela Schanelec , Zero Effect by Jake Kasdan , For sale by Laetitia Masson . This year the Un Certain Regard Prize was awardedfor the first time. The award went to the Kazakh-French film Tueur à gages by Darejan Omirbaev .

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