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AP_photo: The 68th Cannes Film Festival kicked off with a grand display haute couture, none more striking than the vibrant, jaw-dropping dress worn by Lupita Nyong’o, who shared the following on her Instagram feed: “It’s #GrasshopperGreen for @festivaldecannes opening night. Thank you @Chopard @Gucci and Uganda’s women for the hair inspiration. #NseneneSeason #cannes2015.”
The 68th Cannes Film Festival has begun. This year’s Official Selection includes a total of 53 features, with the Competition and Un Certain Regard lineups unspooling 19 titles each. Festival director Thierry Frémaux and his screening committee opted to introduce some new talent into the competition while placing several regular Palme contenders, including Miami Dade College’s Miami International Film Festival (Miami) alumni Argentine-born French director Gaspar Noé, in non-competing slots.
There is only one title from a Latin American director in competition this year: Chronic, by Mexican helmer Michel Franco (After Lucia, Miami30). This English-language drama stars Tim Roth (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction), who was president of the Un Certain Regard jury that awarded its top prize to Franco’s After Lucia in 2012.
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Sicario poster; director Denis Villeneuve at Olympia Theater in Miami (2011)
This year there is an impressive list of eleven Miami Dade College’s Miami International Film Festival alumni directors competing with their new films at Cannes:
- CHRONIC, by Michel Franco — previously in Miami with Después de Lucia (After Lucia) in 2013
- DHEEPAN by Jacques Audiard — previously in Miami with See How They Fall in 1995
- IL RACCONTO DEI RACCONTI (Tale of Tales), by Matteo Garrone — previously in Miami with Reality in 2013, La fura in vivo 2009, and Primo amore (First Love) in 2005
- THE LOBSTER, by Yorgos Lanthimos — previously in Miami with Alps in 2012
- LOUDER THAN BOMBS, by Joachim Trier — previously in Miami with Oslo, August 31st in 2012
- MARGUERITE & JULIEN, by Valérie Donzelli — previously in Miami with Main sans la main (Hand in Hand) in 2013
- MIA MADRE (My Mother), by Nanni Moretti — previously in Miami with The Opening Day of Close Up in 1997
- SHAN HE GU REN (Mountains May Depart), by Jia Zhan Ke — previously in Miami with Er Shi Si Cheng Ji (24 City) in 2009
- SICARIO, by Denis Villeneuve — previously in Miami with Incendies in 2011
- THE SEA OF TREES, by Gus Van Sant — previously in Miami with “8” in 2009
- UMIMACHI DIARY (Our Little Sister), by Kore-Eda Hirokazu — previously in Miami with Daremo Shiranai (Nobody Knows) in 2005
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Matteo Garrone at Regal South Beach, Miami (2013); Tale of Tales poster
The Un Certain Regard lineup at Cannes includes new works by two Miami Dade College’s Miami International Film Festival alumni directors:
- KISHIBE NO TABI (Journey to the Shore), by Kurosawa Kiyoshi — previously in Miami with Cure in 2001
- TAKLUB, by Brillante Mendoza — previously in Miami with Tirador (Slingshot) in 2008, Kinatay, and Lola in 2010
Argentine-born French filmmaker Gaspar Noé—previously in Miami with as co-director of 7 Days in Havana in 2013, “8” in 2009, and director of Irreversible in 2003—has been given a midnight screening for his latest, Love, a sexually explicit 3D film involving a love triangle that some are anticipating to be the raciest to ever screen at the festival. —Tatyana Chiocchetti[/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]
