Robert De Niro heads the Cannes jury, while Michel Gondry will reside over the short film and Cinefondation jury. Speculation is under way on which films will show this year, from Terrence Malick's long-awaited Brad Pitt-starrer Tree of Life (trailer below; Europe May 18, Fox Searchlight opens stateside May 27) to Gus Van Sant's Restless (Sony Pictures Classics), starring actress-on-the-rise Mia Wasikowska. The question is, will these directors enter the competition?
Other auteurs showing their films on the Croisette--assuming they get their films completed in time--could include Pedro Almodovar (The Skin I Live In), Andrea Arnold (Wuthering Heights), David Cronenberg (A Dangerous Method), Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne (The Kid with a Bike), Nanni Moretti (Habemus Papam--"We have a Pope"--April 15 in Italy), Walter Salles (On the Road), Lars Von Trier (Melancholia) and Wong Kar Wai The Grandmasters).
UPDATE: Other likely Croisette filmmakers listed by Screen include Alexander Payne (The Descendants starring George Clooney), Emanuele Crialese (Terrafirma), Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Once Upon A Time In Anatolia), Aki Kaurismaki (Le Havre), Paolo Sorrentino (English-language This Must Be The Place), Lynne Ramsay (We Need To Talk About Kevin), Dominik Moll (The Monk), Robert Guedeguian (The Snows Of Kilimanjaro), Christophe Honore (The Beloved), Bruno Dumont (The Empire ), Mia Hansen-Love (The Father Of My Children), Bertrand Bonello (House Of Tolerance), Andre Techine (Unforgiveable), Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud (live-action Chicken with Plums), Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist), Antoine Charreyron (3D animated The Prodigies), Ismael Ferroukhi (Free Men). Julie Delpy (The Skylab), Malgorzata Szumowska (Sponsoring), Eran Kolirin (The Exchange), Nadine Labaki (Where Do We Go Now?), Urszula Antoniak (Code Blue), Hirokazu Koreeda (I Wish), Brillante Mendoza (b>Prey), Pen-ek Ratanaruang (Headshot), Im Kwon-Taek (Hanji), Hong-jin Na (Yellow Sea), Lou Ye (Love And Bruises) and Andrey Zvyagintsev (Elena).
IndieWIRE's detailed Cannes wish list will post on Wednesday. The announcement of the official program is April 14.
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Matt Riviera | March 21, 2011 1:36 AM
Looks like the Wong Kar-wai is out too...
http://bit.ly/hQzcyp
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Daniel Oliveira | March 20, 2011 7:07 AM
Hi, I recently interviewed actress Alice Braga for my blog in Brazil and she confirmed that ON THE ROAD won't be out until next year. Walter Salles is working his schedule with a 2012 release for the film. So... definitely won't be in Cannes this May.