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Cannes Film Festival 2017

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The Meyerowitz Stories (New And Selected) The Meyerowitz Stories (New And Selected)
The Meyerowitz Stories (New And Selected) and Redoubtable
120 BPM (Beats Per Minute) (120 Battements Par Minute, 120 Beats Per Minute) (Country: France; Year: 2017; Director: Robin Campillo; Writer: Robin Campillo; Stars: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adèle Haenel, Yves Heck, Emmanuel Ménard, Rahim-Silvioli Mehdi, Antoine Reinartz, Caroline Piette, Marco Horanieh, Pascal Tantot, François Rabette, Naelle Dariya, Ariel Borenstein, Coralie Russier, Saadia Bentaïeb)
Portrait of the ACT UP activist group, a direct action collective aiming to impact the lives of people with AIDS.
Full Review See: 120 Beats Per Minute award-winner Nahuel Biscayart on sexuality, activism and the pink condom
, Robin Campillo on AIDS drama 120 BPM, writing from the heart and collaboration
Based On A True Story (Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2017; Director: Roman Polanski; Writer: Olivier Assayas, Delphine de Vigan, Roman Polanski; Stars: Eva Green, Emmanuelle Seigner, Vincent Perez, Alexia Séféroglou)
A writer becomes involved with an obsessive fan.
Out of competition
The Beguiled (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Sofia Coppola; Writer: Sofia Coppola, Thomas Cullinan; Stars: Nicole Kidman, Elle Fanning, Kirsten Dunst, Colin Farrell, Angourie Rice, Oona Laurence, Addison Riecke, Wayne Pére, Emma Howard, Matt Story, Rod J. Pierce)
Civil War drama about an injured Yankee soldier who seeks refuge in girls' boarding school.
Full Review See: Conversation with Sofia Coppola, Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman about The Beguiled
Blade Of The Immortal (Mugen no jûnin) (Country: Japan, UK; Year: 2017; Director: Takashi Miike; Writer: Hiroaki Samura, Tetsuya Oishi; Stars: Takuya Kimura, Hana Sugisaki, Sôta Fukushi, Hayato Ichihara, Erika Toda, Kazuki Kitamura, Chiaki Kuriyama, Shin'nosuke Mitsushima, Ken Kaneko, Yôko Yamamoto, Ebizô Ichikawa, Min Tanaka, Tsutomu Yamazaki)
Manga tale of an immortal warrior, who cannot be released from his torment until he has killed 10000 evil-doers.
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Out of competition
The Day After (Country: South Korea; Year: 2017; Director: Hong Sang-soo)
A woman whose boss recently ended an affair gets mistaken for the girlfriend by his wife.
You Were Never Really Here You Were Never Really Here
You Were Never Really Here and 120 BPM (Beats Per Minute)
Faces Places (Visages, Villages) (Country: France; Year: 2017; Director: Agnès Varda, JR)
The director and photgrapher travel through France as their friendship blossoms.
Full Review See: Agnès Varda on Faces Places, honours, outsiders and Demy
, Early bird highlights of DOC NYC 2017
Out of competition
A Gentle Creature (Country: France; Year: 2017; Director: Sergei Loznitsa; Writer: Sergei Loznitsa, based on the short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
A woman travels to a remote prison to try to find out what has happened to her jailed husband.
Good Time (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Ben Safdie, Joshua Safdie; Writer: Ronald Bronstein, Joshua Safdie; Stars: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Robert Pattinson, Barkhad Abdi, Ben Safdie, Taliah Webster, Marcos A. Gonzalez, Cliff Moylan, Rose Gregorio, Shaun Rey, Souleymane Sy Savane, Buddy Duress, Phil Cappadora, Mahadeo Shivraj, Ratnesh Dubey, Jibril Goodman, Laurence Blum)
Crime caper sees a bank robber try to evade capture.
Full Review See: Good Time star Robert Pattinson on being a lone wolf - and fame as a side dish
, Robert Pattinson talks about the Safdie Brothers Good Time in Cannes
Happy End (Country: France, Germany, Austria; Year: 2017; Director: Michael Haneke; Writer: Michael Haneke; Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Toby Jones, Mathieu Kassovitz, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Fantine Harduin, Loubna Abidar, Dominique Besnehard, Jack Claudany, Hassam Ghancy, Nabiha Akkari, Franck Andrieux, Jackee Toto)
Story of a bourgeois family, set against the backdrop of the Calais refugee crisis.
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How To Talk To Girls At Parties (Country: UK, US; Year: 2017; Director: John Cameron Mitchell; Writer: Philippa Goslett, John Cameron Mitchell, based on a short story by Neil Gaiman; Stars: Alex Sharp, Elle Fanning, Ethan Lawrence, Abraham Lewis, Nicole Kidman, Ruth Wilson, Matt Lucas, Joanna Scanlan, Tom Brooke, Stephen Campbell Moore)
Three teenage punks gatecrash a party on the Queen's jubilee night in London and have an unexpected experience that feels out of this world
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Out of competition
Blade Of The Immortal Blade Of The Immortal
Blade Of The Immortal and Happy End
Ismael's Ghosts (Les Fantomes D’Ismael) (Country: France; Year: 2017; Director: Arnaud Desplechin; Writer: Arnaud Desplechin, Léa Mysius, Julie Peyr; Stars: Marion Cotillard, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Louis Garrel, Mathieu Amalric, Alba Rohrwacher, Samir Guesmi, Hippolyte Girardot, László Szabó)
A filmmaker's life becomes complicated by the return of a former lover.
Full Review See: Arnaud Desplechin in conversation on Lacan, Rilke, Hitchcock, Philip Roth, and Ismael’s Ghosts: Director’s Cut (Les Fantômes D'Ismaël)
, Arnaud Desplechin and Mathieu Amalric in conversation on Ismael’s Ghosts: Director’s Cut (Les Fantômes D'Ismaël)
, Interview with Arnaud Desplechin about Ismael's Ghosts at Cannes 2017
Opening night
In The Fade (Aus dem Nichts) (Country: Germany; Year: 2017; Director: Fatih Akin; Writer: Fatih Akin; Stars: Diane Kruger, Numan Acar, Ulrich Tukur, Siir Eloglu, Jessica McIntyre, Ulrich Brandhoff)
Revenge thriller set in the aftermath of a bombing.
Full Review See: Interview with Diane Kruger about In The Fade
Jupiter's Moon (Country: Hungary; Year: 2017; Director: Kornél Mundruczó; Writer: Kornél Mundruczó, Kata Wéber; Stars: Merab Ninidze, Zoltán Mucsi, György Cserhalmi, Mónika Balsai, Tamás Szabó Kimmel, Levente Törköly, Veronika Nemes-Jeles, András Bálint, Szabolcs Bede Fazekas, Sándor Terhes, Farid Larbi, Péter Haumann, Can Togay, Zsolt Végh, Alexandra Horváth)
After an immigrant is shot down illegally while crossing the border, he discovers he can now levitate.
The Killing Of A Sacred Deer (Country: UK, US; Year: 2017; Director: Yorgos Lanthimos; Writer: Efthymis Filippou, Yorgos Lanthimos; Stars: Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Alicia Silverstone, Raffey Cassidy, Bill Camp, Barry Keoghan, Anita Farmer Bergman, Sunny Suljic, Denise Dal Vera, Megan Chelf Fisher, Lea Hutton Beasmore, Rachael Mcadams, Michelle Poole, Nathaniel Sizemore, Jerry Pope)
A teenage boy tries to integrate a surgeon into his broken family but his motives become increasingly sinister.
Full Review See: Nicole Kidman on The Killing Of The Sacred Deer in Cannes
L'Amant Double (Double Lover) (Country: France; Year: 2017; Director: François Ozon; Writer: François Ozon; Stars: Jacqueline Bisset, Marine Vacth, Jérémie Renier)
A fragile young woman falls for her psychotherapist... and his twin.
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Loveless Loveless
Loveless and The Square
Loveless (Country: France; Year: 2017; Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev; Writer: Oleg Negin; Stars: Maryana Spivak, Alexei Rozin)
A couple go looking for their young son after he disappears during one of their bitter rows.
Full Review
The Meyerowitz Stories (New And Selected) (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Noah Baumbach; Writer: Noah Baumbach; Stars: Adam Sandler,Emma Thompson, Ben Stiller,Dustin Hoffman, Elizabeth Marvel, Candice Bergen, Danny Flaherty, Rebecca Miller, Jared Sandler, Adam David Thompson, Lyne Renee, Cindy Cheung, Sakina Jaffrey, Mickey Sumner, Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Adam Driver, Grace Van Patten, Judd Hirsch, Michael Chernus)
Comedy drama about a family who gather in New York to celebrate the work of their dad.
Full Review See: Conversation with Dustin Hoffman, Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller and Emma Thompson on The Meyerowitz Stories
, Tribeca Talks: Dustin Hoffman takes on Noah Baumbach
Okja (Country: US, South Korea; Year: 2017; Director: Bong Joon Ho; Writer: Bong Joon Ho, Jon Ronson; Stars: Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano, Ahn Seo-Hyun, Byun Hee-Bong, Steven Yeun, Lily Collins, Yun Je-mun, Shirley Henderson, Daniel Henshall, Devon Bostick, Choi Woo-sik, Giancarlo Esposito, Jake Gyllenhaal, Lynn Marocola, Myles Humphus)
Young girl Mija must risk everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a massive animal named Okja.
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Redoubtable (Le Redoubtable) (Country: France; Year: 2017; Director: Michel Hazanavicius; Writer: Michel Hazanavicius, based on the autobiography by Anne Wiazemsky; Stars: Stacy Martin, Bérénice Bejo, Louis Garrel, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Micha Lescot, Grégory Gadebois, Marc Brun Adryan', Lola Ingrid Le Roch, Tanya Lopert, Emmanuele Aita, Arthur Orcier, Eric Marcel, Eva Chico, Louise Legendre, Zina Esepciuc)
Paris 1967. Jean-Luc Godard, the leading filmmaker of his generation, is shooting La Chinoise with the woman he loves, Anne Wiazemsky, 20 years his junior. They are happy, attractive, in love, they marry. But the film’s reception unleashes a profound self-examination in Jean-Luc.
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Rodin (Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2017; Director: Jacques Doillon; Writer: Jacques Doillon; Stars: Vincent Lindon, Izïa Higelin, Séverine Caneele, Edward Akrout, Zina Esepciuc, Magdalena Malina, Patricia Mazuy, Lea Jackson, Olivia Baes, Serge Bagdassarian, Régis Royer, Nathalie Bécue, Serge Nicolai, François Neycken, Edouard Duthuillé)
Drama about the sculptor's romance with Camille Claudel.
L'Amant Double L'Amant Double
L'Amant Double and Good Time
Radiance (Hikari) (Country: Japan, France; Year: 2017; Director: Naomi Kawase; Writer: Naomi Kawase; Stars: Masatoshi Nagase, Noémie Nakai, Tatsuya Fuji, Ayame Misaki, Chihiro Ohtsuka, Kazuko Shirakawa, Mantarô Koichi, Saori, Nobumitsu Ônishi)
A writer of film versions for the visually impaired falls for a photographer who is losing his eyesight, together they learn to see the radiant world.
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The Square (Country: Sweden, Germany, France, Denmark; Year: 2017; Director: Ruben Östlund; Writer: Ruben Östlund; Stars: Elisabeth Moss, Dominic West, Terry Notary, Linda Anborg, Claes Bang, Annica Liljeblad, Christopher Læssø, Emelie Beckius, Sarah Giercksky, Jan Lindwall, Marina Schiptjenko, John Nordling, Denise Wessman, Lilianne Mardon, Peter Diaz)
An art exhibit invites passers by to altruism, but things don't go as planned for its curator.
Full Review See: Interview with Ruben Östlund, Claes Bang and Elisabeth Moss about The Square in Cannes
Wonderstruck (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Todd Haynes; Writer: Brian Selznick, based on his novel; Stars: Amy Hargreaves, Michelle Williams, Julianne Moore, Oakes Fegley, Tom Noonan, Cory Michael Smith, James Urbaniak, Marko Caka, Damian Young, Hays Wellford, Morgan Turner, Ekaterina Samsonov, Brian Berrebbi, Michael Wren Gucciardo, Jaden Michael)
Ben and Rose are children from two different eras who secretly wish their lives were different. Both set out on quests.
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You Were Never Really Here (Country: US, France; Year: 2017; Director: Lynne Ramsay; Writer: Lynne Ramsay, based on the novel by Jonathan Ames; Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Ekaterina Samsonov, Alessandro Nivola, Alex Manette, John Doman, Judith Roberts, Jason Babinsky, Kate Easton, Frank Pando, Leigh Dunham, Madison Arnold, Dante Pereira-Olson, Jonathan Wilde, Scott Price, Silvia Pena)
A tormented assassin tries to rescue a girl but trouble lies ahead.
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