Anderson, Ozon, Maïwenn, McQueen... The official selection of Cannes 2020

The moviegoers were waiting with impatience. The "official selection" of the Cannes film Festival, 2020, was announced Wednesday by the general delegate of the event Thierry Frémaux at the UGC Normandie : fifty-six films that the festival will in the room and which can be presented in other festivals, until the month of December.

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found in this list of filmmakers regulars of the Croisette, like the Japanese Naomi Kawase (True Mothers), the Danish Thomas Vinterberg (Another Round) or Korean Im Sang-soo (the Heaven: To The Land of Happiness). The British Steve McQueen, the camera d'or in 2008 with Hunger, is remembered for two achievements: Lovers Rock and Mangroves, historical films centered on the black community and addressing police violence.

Expected on the Croisette this year, Wes Anderson is also on the list with The English Dispatch. A feature film shot in Angoulême "between the comic strip, the animation cinema and the cinema of real" which is also "a great tribute to the journalists", said Thierry Frémaux.

A selection of French outward-looking

many Of the early films of actors have also been selected : Falling, intimate drama about a relationship between father-son of Viggo Mortensen, Boy Cloth of the actor of Ten Percent Nicolas Maury or the Origin of The world on which leans Laurent Laffite.

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At just 20 years old, Suzanne Landon is the youngest of this selection. The daughter of Vincent Lindon and Sandrine Kiberlain enters the big league with his film 16 Spring, alongside Emmanuel Mouret, to be used for The Things they said, the things we do and François Ozon and its Summer 85.

If it is very French - with 21 films from France, this selection has not forgotten the stranger. And in particular Algeria. In DNA, Maïwenn Le Besco is returning to his roots while The men of the Belgian Lucas Belvaux - the cast of which includes Gerard Depardieu - will focus on the generation of men who lived the war in Algeria.

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A year after the golden palm of the Parasite , the selection don't forget Asia. We note the presence of the film sketches hong kong Septet co-signed by Ann Hui, Johnnie TO, Tsui Hark, Sammo Hung, Yuen Woo-Ping and Patrick Tam, but also a Peninsula of the Korean Yeon Sang-Ho, a result of Last Train To Busan and The Real Thing the Japanese Kôji Fukada, film the longest of the selection of a running time of nearly four hours.

full selection :

- THE FRENCH DISPATCH of Wes Anderson - United Kingdom/France/Germany - 1h43

- 85 of François Ozon - 1h40

- ASA GA KURU (True mothers) Naomi Kawase - Japan - 2h20

- ROCK LOVERS Steve McQueen - 1h08

- MANGROVE-Steve McQueen - United Kingdom - 2h04

- DRUK (Another Round) Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark/Sweden/netherlands- 1.55pm

- DNA (DNA) of Maïwenn - 1h30

- LAST WORDS of Jonathan Nossiter, Italy/France - 2h06

- HEAVEN: TO THE LAND OF HAPPINESS of IM Sang-Soo - South Korea - 1 hour 40 minutes

- EL OLVIDO THAT SEREMOS (Forgotten we'll be ) Fernando Trueba - British - 2h16

- PENINSULA de YEON Sang-Ho - South Korea - 1h54

- IN THE DUSK (in The dusk) of Sharunas BARTAS - Lithuania/France/Czech Republic/Serbia/Portugal/Latvia - 2h06

- MEN (Home front) Lucas BELVAUX France/Belgium - 1h40

- THE REAL THING from Kôji Fukada - Japan - time of 3h48

- PASSION SIMPLE by Danielle Arbid, France/Belgium - 1h36

- A GOOD MAN by Marie Castille Mention-Schaar - 1h47

- THE THINGS YOU SAID, THINGS WHICH ARE DONE by Emmanuel Mouret - 2h

- SOUAD of Ayten Amin - Egypt/Tunisia - 1h30

- LIMBO-Ben Sharrock - United Kingdom - 1h53

RED (Red soil) Farid Bentoumi - 1h26

- SWEATSHIRT by Magnus Von Horn - Poland/Sweden - 1h40

- TEDDY Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma - 1h28

- FEBRUARY (February) of Kamen Kalev - Bulgaria - 2: 05

- AMMONITE Francis Lee - United Kingdom - 2h

- A DOCTOR'S NIGHT Elie Wajeman - 1h40

- enfant TERRIBLE of Oskar Roehler - Germany - 2h14

- NADIA BUTTERFLY by Pascal Plante - Canada - 1h46

- HERE WE ARE from Nir Bergman - Israel - 1h34

- SEPTET: THE STORY OF HONG KONG's Ann Hui, Johnnie To, Tsui Hark, Sammo Hung, Yuen Woo-Ping and Patrick Tam - Hong Kong - 1h53

- FALLING of Viggo Mortensen - Canada/United Kingdom/Denmark - 1h52

- PLEASURE Ninja Thyberg - Sweden/netherlands/France - 1 hour 45 minutes

- SLALOM Charlène Favier - 1h32

- CASA DE ANTIGUIDADES (Memory house) of Joao Paulo Miranda Maria - Brazil - 1h27

- BROKEN KEYS (the Wrong note) Jimmy Keyrouz - Lebanon - 1h30

- IBRAHIM Samir Guesmi - 1h20

- BEGINNING (in The beginning) of Déa Kulumbegashvili, Georgia - 2h10

- GAGARIN Fanny Liatard, and Jeremy Trouilh - 1 hour 35 minutes

- 16 SPRING Suzanne Lindon - 1h13

- PUNKED Peter Dourountzis - 1 hour 35 minutes

- BOY CLOTH of Nicolas Maury - 1h48

- IF THE WIND FALLS (Should the wind fall) Nora Martirosyan – Armenia/France/Belgium - 1h40

- JOHN AND THE HOLE of Pascual Sisto - Usa - 1h38

- STRIDING INTO THE WIND (Chasing the wind) WEI Shujun - China - 3h06

- THE DEATH OF CINEMA AND MY FATHER TOO (The death of cinema and also my father) by Dani Rosenberg, Israel - 1 hour 40 minutes

- ON the way TO THE BILLION (The Billion road) of Dieudo Hamadi - Dir. Democratic of Congo/Belgium/France - 1h30

- THE TRUFFLE HUNTERS of Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw - Italy/Usa/Greece - 1: 24

- 9 DAYS RAQQA by Xavier de Lauzanne - 1h30

- ANTOINETTE IN THE CÉVÈNNES of Caroline Vignal - 1 hour 35 minutes

- THE TWO ALFRED Bruno Podalydes - 1h30

- A TRIUMPH (The big hit) Emmanuel Courcol - 1h40

- the ORIGIN OF The WORLD of Laurent Lafitte

- THE SPEECH of Laurent Tirard - 1h27

- AYA TO MAJO (Earwig and the witch) of Gorô Miyazaki - Japan - 1h22

- FLEE by Jonas Poher Rasmussen - Denmark/France/Sweden/Norway - 1h30

- JOSEP Aurel - 1h20 - 1 film

- SOUL of Pete Docter - Usa - 1h30

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This is crazy as the film, this caste was not missed...and so happy that football is finally gone for three months

James Kirkle 04/06/2020 01:27

who is It ?

Marc Dobeyle 03/06/2020 20:46

Not enough asians, blacks, greens...

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