Cannes International Film Festival 2007

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The 60th International Film Festival of Cannes took place from May 16 to May 27 instead of 2007. The film festival opened with Wong Kar-wai's competition entry My Blueberry Nights and ended with Denys Arcand's comedy L'Âge des ténèbres, which was shown out of competition. The most important prize, the Golden Palm for the best feature film , went to Cristian Mungius for 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days .

Competition jury

President of the jury in 2007: British director Stephen Frears

As the successor to jury president Wong Kar-wai in 2006, director Stephen Frears was presented on January 11, 2007 . The Briton, who most recently directed the Oscar-winning drama The Queen , competed for the Golden Palm in 1987 and 1996 with his films Prick Up Your Ears and Fish & Chips . He was assisted by eight jury members, including seven filmmakers:

The German actress Diane Kruger hosted the opening ceremony on May 16, as well as the award gala on May 27, as hostess (maîtresse de cérémonie) .

Competition films

The Artistic Director of the Cannes Film Festival, Thierry Frémaux , announced at a press conference in Paris on April 19, 2007 the 22 feature film productions that will be represented in the race for the Palme d'Or, three more than last year. Joel Coen ( No Country for Old Men ), Emir Kusturica (Promise Me This), Quentin Tarantino ( Grindhouse - Death Proof ) and Gus Van Sant (Paranoid Park) have already made successful films in the past. Kusturica, represented for the fifth time in Cannes, could have made film history with Promise Me This (original title: Zavet ). No director had ever won the Palme d'Or three times in Cannes. Kusturica received it in 1985 for Papa is on a business trip and in 1995 for Underground . From a German perspective, hopes rested on Fatih Akin . The German-Turkish director competed with On the Other Side , the second part of his “Love, Death and Devil” trilogy. The drama tells the story of six people, including the political activist Ayten ( Nurgül Yeşilçay ), who lives illegally in Germany , who falls in love with Charlotte (Patrycia Ziolkowska), who is of the same age. Opposed to this is the introverted, Turkish-born professor of German studies Nejat (Baki Davrak) who tries to hook up with his father's partner. Most recently, the German Wim Wenders was unsuccessfully represented in the competition with Don't Come Knocking in 2005 . Akin's first trilogy, Gegen die Wand , won him the Golden Bear at the 2004 Berlin Film Festival .

Represented in the Cannes competition for the fifth time: Emir Kusturica with Promise Me This

Ulrich Seidl's film Import Export from Austria was considered, which tells of the life of the Ukrainian nurse Olga and Paul the Viennese . The two unemployed seek their fortune in the other region, Olga in the west, Paul in the east. David Fincher took on Zodiac - The Trail of the Killer of the same name, never caught serial killer , who terrified San Francisco in the late 1960s . Fincher's compatriot Julian Schnabel had chosen the former editor of the French Elle , Jean-Dominique Bauby (1952–1997), who suffered a stroke in 1995 at the age of 43 as the main character for his film Butterfly and Diving Bell . This paralyzed almost his entire body and left him only the left eye as a means of communication with which he wrote his memoirs. The award-winning French actor and director Mathieu Amalric played the lead role of Bauby, who suffered from locked-in syndrome , after the American Johnny Depp had previously been traded for the part.

With Persepolis , an animated film also made it into the Cannes competition. The Iranian Marjane Satrapi filmed her comic of the same name together with the French director Vincent Paronnaud , which is about her childhood in Iran and her youth in Vienna and Tehran . Renowned actors such as Catherine Deneuve , Gena Rowlands and Danielle Darrieux were able to be won as speakers . Controversial directors such as Catherine Breillat (Une vieille maitresse) or Carlos Reygadas ( Stellet Licht ) were also considered, while Wong Kar-wais My Blueberry Nights opened the festival. The American singer Norah Jones made her film debut in the English-language road movie , in which she starred alongside renowned actors such as Jude Law , David Strathairn , Tim Roth , Natalie Portman , Ed Harris and Oscar-winner Rachel Weisz .

Of the 22 directors, 13 were represented for the first time with their films in Cannes, which the Berliner Zeitung credited to Frémaux's efforts to rejuvenate the film festival and align it with aesthetic discourse. “For the anniversary, we preferred to mix heritage with modernity, well-known names with offspring,” said Gilles Jacob , Cannes Festival President, at the press conference in Paris. This was also symbolized by the official festival poster, on which Pedro Almodóvar , Juliette Binoche , Jane Campion , Souleymane Cissé , Penélope Cruz , Gérard Depardieu , Samuel L. Jackson , Bruce Willis and Wong Kar-wai could be seen in various jumping poses. The photo collage used portraits of Alex Majoli that were created at last year's film festival.

Feature films

Movie title Director Country of production Actor (selection)
June 4, 3 săptămâni și 2 zile Cristian Mungiu Romania Anamaria Marinca , Vlad Ivanov , Laura Vasiliu
Alexandra Alexander Sokurov Russia Galina Vishnevskaya
On the other hand Fatih Akin Germany , Turkey Patrycia Ziółkowska , Baki Davrak , Nurgül Yeşilçay , Hanna Schygulla , Nursel Köse
Breath Kim Ki-duk South Korea Kim Ki-duk, Chen Chang
Les Chansons d'amour Christophe Honoré France Louis Garrel , Ludivine Sagnier , Chiara Mastroianni
Grindhouse - Death Proof Quentin Tarantino United States Kurt Russell , Rosario Dawson , Vanessa Ferlito
Import export Ulrich Seidl Austria Paul Hofmann , Ekaterina Rak , Michael Thomas
The banishment Andrei Svyagintsev Russia Konstantin Lawronenko , Maria Bonnevie , Dmitri Ulyanov
The Man from London Béla Tarr France, Germany, Hungary , UK Miroslav Krobot , Tilda Swinton , János Derszi
The forest of mourning Naomi Kawase Japan Shigeki Uda , Machiko Ono , Makiko Watanabe
My Blueberry Nights * Wong Kar-wai Hong Kong, China, France Norah Jones , Jude Law , David Strathairn , Tim Roth , Natalie Portman , Ed Harris , Rachel Weisz
No Country for Old Men Ethan Coen
Joel Coen 		United States Tommy Lee Jones , Javier Bardem , Josh Brolin , Woody Harrelson , Kelly Macdonald
Paranoid Park Gus Van Sant France, USA Gabe Nevins , Taylor Momsen , Jake Miller , Daniel Liu
Persepolis Vincent Paronnaud
Marjane Satrapi 		France Animation film
Promise Me This Emir Kusturica Serbia , France Uros Milovanovic , Marija Petronijevic
Le scaphandre et le papillon Julian Schnabel France, USA Mathieu Amalric , Emmanuelle Seigner , Marie-Josée Croze
Secret Sunshine Chang-dong Lee South Korea Kang-ho Song , Do-yeon Jeon
Provide light Carlos Reygadas Mexico , France Cornelio Wall , Miriam Toews , Maria Pankratz
Tehilim Raphaël Nadjari France, Israel Michael Moshonov , Limor Goldstein , Shmuel Vilozni
Une many maitresse Catherine Breillat France Asia Argento , Yolande Moreau , Michael Lonsdale
We own the night James Gray United States Joaquin Phoenix , Mark Wahlberg , Robert Duvall , Eva Mendes
Zodiac David Fincher United States Jake Gyllenhaal , Robert Downey Jr. , Mark Ruffalo

* = Opening film

Award winners

Un Certain Regard, Cinema Master Class and Cinéfondation

The French film director Pascale Ferran has been appointed as the jury president of the Un Certain Regard series . There were eight directorial debutants among the 16 participants in this section. Ferran, who most recently drew attention to herself through the award-winning film adaptation of Lady Chatterley (2006), was represented with Le Baiser in the Cannes short film competition in 1990 and had written the film script for Arnaud Desplechin's thriller Die Wache , which won the Golden Award in 1992 as best feature film Palme was nominated.

The US-American director Martin Scorsese , who received the directing Oscar for his gangster epic Departed - Unter Feinden this year , as well as his colleagues Stephen Frears, Wong Kar-wai, Nanni Moretti and Sydney Pollack held a “Cinema Master” during the film festival Class ”, in which he discussed his work as a filmmaker. Scorsese also announced the establishment of the World Cinema Foundation , an organization that, like the Cinémathèque française , is dedicated to the storage and restoration of well-known feature films. In addition, the winner of the Golden Palm from 1976 presented the Golden Camera for the festival's best debut film at the award gala .

Outside of the competition, Michael Moore's new documentary Sicko, Steven Soderbergh's Ocean’s Thirteen and Michael Winterbottom's A Mighty Heart were shown. Moore denounces the US health care system under US gun laws in Bowling for Columbine and the US government’s terrorism policy in Fahrenheit 9/11 . Soderbergh's film is a sequel to Ocean's Eleven (2001) and Ocean's 12 (2004) and again focuses on George Clooney , who, together with Brad Pitt and Matt Damon, is devoted to crooked business in the casino metropolis Las Vegas . Winterbottom's drama is about the American Mariane Pearl (played by Angelina Jolie ), who goes to Pakistan to find her missing husband Daniel , who was there for the Wall Street Journal researching information about the British terrorist Richard Reid .

For the Cinéfondation series launched in 2005 , fifteen directorial works from fifteen different countries were selected, including Serviam, the second feature film by Austrian Ruth Mader . The program helps young film students promote and complete their projects.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joan Dupont: A provocateur's stamp on French film . In: The International Herald Tribune, March 31, 2006, Feature, p. 10.
  2. ^ Anke Westphal: Our man in Cannes: Fatih Akin is invited to the competition of the 60th film festival . In: Berliner Zeitung, Issue 92, Feuilleton, p. 27.
  3. ↑ Lawrence Van Gelder: Cannes Festival Films Named . In: The New York Times , April 20, 2007, Section E, PT1, Column 1, Movies, Performing Arts / Weekend Desk, Arts, Briefly, p. 5.