The Casual Movie Critic

Cannes Festival 2006 May 18, 2006

Posted by TheCasualCritic in movie talk

Wednesday marked the debut of the 2006 Cannes Film Festival which started with the world premiere of the quite anticipated Da Vinci Code. With Tom Hanks leading the celebrity parade, the festival its on its way to another interesting mix of movies, both by classic art directors as well as young talents, with a total of 55 movies including 48 world premieres, representing 30 countries.

This year's Jury is lead by the masterful Wong Kar Wai and has an... interesting componence: Monica Belluci (!), Helena Bonham Carter, Lucrecia Martel (ARG), Zhang Yiyi (!), Samuel Jackson, Tim Roth, Patric Leconte, Elia Suleiman. Presiding over the Un Certain Regard section is Monte Hellman.

What are the most expected movies of this year? Starting with the heavyweights, we have Pedro Almodovar's Volver. Richard Linklater presents both his new movies Fast Food Nation and A Scanner Darkly. Sofia Coppola shifts gears with Marie Antoinette while Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu promises to follow 21 Grams with Babel another mix of complex intertwined stories in the powerful style that he used us to. Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki (The Man without a Past) is also returning to Cannes with Lights in the Dusk; Nani Moretti returns as well with The Caiman. From Romania we have Catalin Mitulescu's The Way I Spent the End of the World. Asian cinema is also well represented with movies by Jong-bin Yoon, Chao Wang and Lou Ye among others.

So for now... enjoy the wait until these movies will get the appropriate distribution.

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