SPOTLIGHT ON CANNES 2021: IN COMPETITION — TITANE —Julia Ducournau

TITANE

"TITANE: A metal, highly resistant to heat and corrosion, with high tensile strength alloys often used in medical prostheses due to pronounced biocompatibility."

“Written by Julia Ducournau, the film opens on an airport where custom inspectors pick up a young man with a bruised face. He claims his name to be Adrien Legrand, a child who disappeared ten years ago. For Vincent, his father, this marks the end of a long nightmare and he brings him home. Simultaneously, a series of gruesome murders places the region under pressure. Alexia, model in a car showroom, has all the characteristics of the ideal victim.”

"Julia Ducournau is a French film director and screenwriter. She attended film school at La Fémis in Paris, where she studied screenwriting. In 2011, her short film JUNIOR won the Petit Rail d'Or at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. Her first feature, the horror movie RAW, won the coveted FIPRESCI prize at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival."

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SPOTLIGHT ON CANNES 2021: IN COMPETITION — THE FRENCH DISPATCH —Wes Anderson

IN COMPETITION

THE FRENCH DISPATCH

"A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional twentieth century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in "The French Dispatch Magazine.""

Wes Anderson is up to his old less than great tricks. It's more than doubtful that "The French Dispatch" will win the Palme but at least there's a place for silly entertainment in the Competition.

Spike Lee © Jason Bell/Netflix - Jessica Hausner © DR - Kleber Mendonça Filho © Victor Jucá - Mati Diop © Lucas Charrier - Mylène Farmer © Marcel Hartmann - Song Kang-ho © DR- Mélanie Laurent © Marcel Hartmann - Maggie Gyllenhaal © Gareth Cattermole - Tahar Rahim © James Weston

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SPOTLIGHT ON CANNES 2021: IN COMPETITION — PETROV'S FLU —Kirill Serebrennokov

IN COMPETITION

PETROV'S FLU

"A day in the life of a comic book artist and his family in post-Soviet Russia. While suffering from the flu, Petrov is carried by his friend Igor on a long walk, drifting in and out of fantasy and reality."

Russian auteur Kirill Serebrennokov returns to Cannes behind his 2016 Un Certain Regard entry "The Student," with an ostensibly more humorous, albeit black sense of humor. "Petrov's Flu" could be catching on the Croisette for its celebrated premiere at Cannes. 

Kirill Serebrennokov

Spike Lee © Jason Bell/Netflix - Jessica Hausner © DR - Kleber Mendonça Filho © Victor Jucá - Mati Diop © Lucas Charrier - Mylène Farmer © Marcel Hartmann - Song Kang-ho © DR- Mélanie Laurent © Marcel Hartmann - Maggie Gyllenhaal © Gareth Cattermole - Tahar Rahim © James Weston

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