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

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SPOTLIGHT ON CANNES 2012: IN COMPETITION — FRANCE —Bruno Dumont

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FRANCE

""France" chronicles the frenetic life of a famous TV star and journalist who becomes caught in the trappings of celebrity and subsequently overcome by a spiral of events which ultimately lead to her downfall. Determined to leave her tragic identity behind her, she redeems herself through hard work and finds her way back to her former life; though this time she’s equipped with a sense of irony and ridicule."

Cannes regular Bruno Dumont returns with the latest addition to an impressive oeuvre of challenging transgressive films. It would be a mistake to underestimate the power of Dumont's haunting Cinema of provocation, for here is an auteur who writes his films as novels before making them into movies. Intellectual rigor comes with the territory. Get your thinking caps on.

Bruno Dumont

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SPOTLIGHT ON CANNES 2021: IN COMPETITON — NITRAM —Justin Kurzel

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NITRAM

"“Nitram” elucidates events leading to the 1996 massacre in Tasmania’s Port Arthur in which a gunman killed 35 people and wounded 23 others."

"The mass murder led Australia to changes its gun laws in significant ways that have prevented an increase in gun violence since the horror of April 28 and 29 of 1996."

“The Port Arthur massacre remains the worst massacre in modern Australia committed by a single person.”

Justin Kurzel

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