Cannes 2009: Jane Campion, Alain Resnais, Brillante Mendoza, Johnnie To, Lou Ye
Peter Bradshaw on Bright Star (with Abbie Cornish and Ben Whishaw, above) in The Guardian:
"Jane Campion has put herself in line for her second Palme d’Or here at the Cannes film festival with a film which I think could be the best of her career; an affecting and deeply considered study of the last years in the short life of John Keats, and the ecstasy of loss which suffuses his love affair with Fanny Brawne – a love thwarted not due to illness, but to a pernicious web of money worries, social scruples and irrelevant male loyalties."
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Maggie Lee on Kinatay in The Hollywood Reporter:
"Festival darling Brillante Mendoza’s Kinatay is a long night’s journey into the [...]
by Massimo David | May 20, 2009
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Cannes 2009: Palme d’Or Line-Up II
Cannes Film Festival 2009: Competition Line-Up
Palme d’Or Line-Up: Part I
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Looking for Eric, Ken Loach, UK
Kinatay, Brillante Mendoza, Philippines
Visage (Face), Tsai Ming-liang, France/Taiwan
Soudain le vide (Enter the Void), Gaspar Noé, France
The Time that Remains, Elia Suleiman, Palestine
Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino, USA
Vengeance, Johnnie To, France/Hong Kong
Antichrist, Lars von Trier, Denmark
Les herbes folles (Wild Grass), Alain Resnais, France
Spring Fever, Lou Ye, China
by Deborah Arthur | May 13, 2009
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Tags: Antichrist, Cannes 2009, Cannes Film Festival, Film Festivals, Inglourious Basterds, Kinatay, Looking for Eric, The Time That Remains, Visage, Wild Grass
