Cannes 2009: Best Actor Favorites
Best Actor
Tahar Rahim as a young man behind bars in A Prophet.
Ben Whishaw as John Keats in Bright Star.
André Dussollier as the elderly hero in Wild Grass.
François Cluzet as a con man in In the Beginning.
Photos: Courtesy Festival de Cannes
by Andre Soares | May 22, 2009
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Tags: À l'origine, A Prophet, Abbie Cornish, André Dussollier, Ben Whishaw, Bright Star, Cannes 2009, Cannes Film Festival, Emmanuelle Devos, Film Awards, Film Festivals, François Cluzet, In the Beginning, John Keats, Les Herbes folles, Tahar Rahim, Wild Grass
Cannes 2009: Best Director Favorites
Best Director
Pedro Almodóvar for Broken Embraces
Jacques Audiard for A Prophet
Jane Campion for Bright Star
Michael Haneke for The White Ribbon
Alain Resnais for Wild Grass
Photos: Courtesy Festival de Cannes
by Massimo David | May 22, 2009
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Tags: A Prophet, Alain Resnais, Bright Star, Broken Embraces, Cannes 2009, Cannes Film Festival, Das Weisse Band, Film Awards, Film Festivals, Jacques Audiard, Jane Campion, Les Herbes folles, Los Abrazos rotos, Michael Haneke, Pedro Almodóvar, The White Ribbon, Wild Grass
Cannes 2009: Palme d’Or Favorites
Palme d’Or 2009, Grand Prix, Special Jury Prize:
Alain Resnais‘ romantic fantasy Wild Grass (adapted by Alex Reval and Laurent Herbiet from Christian Gailly’s novel), about a man who becomes intrigued by a younger woman
Jacques Audiard’s tough prison drama A Prophet (written by Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Abdel Raouf Dafri, and Nicolas Peufaillit)
Writer-director Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon, about a northern German community enmeshed in a series of nasty events right before the beginning of World War I
Writer-director Jane Campion’s Bright Star, about the doomed love affair between British poet John Keats and his neighbor, Fanny Brawne
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by Massimo David | May 22, 2009
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Tags: A Prophet, Abbie Cornish, Abdel Raouf Dafri, Alain Resnais, Alex Reval, André Dussollier, Ben Whishaw, Bright Star, Cannes 2009, Cannes Film Festival, Christian Gailly, Das Weisse Band, Fanny Brawne, Film Awards, Film Fetivals, Jacques Audiard, Jane Campion, John Keats, Laurent Herbiet, Les Herbes folles, Michael Haneke, Nicolas Peufaillit, Palme d'Or, Sabine Azéma, Tahar Rahim, The White Ribbon, Thomas Bidegain, Wild Grass
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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Tags: Abbie Cornish, Alain Resnais, André Dussollier, Ben Whishaw, Bright Star, Brillante Mendoza, Cannes 2009, Cannes Film Festival, Fanny Brawne, Film Festivals, Gay Interest, Howard Feinstein, indieWIRE, Jane Campion, Jean-Pierre Melville, John Keats, Johnnie To, Johnny Hallyday, Kinatay, Les Herbes folles, Lou Ye, Photos, Screen Daily, Spring Fever, The Hollywood Reporter, Thomas Sotinel, Vengeance, Wild Grass
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
