Red Shoes, L’Enfer centrepieces in masterpiece feast
Honorary President Martin Scorsese will present British directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s masterpiece The Red Shoes (1948) as part of the sixth annual Cannes Classics programme. A ‘recomposed’ version of Henri-George Clouzot’s unfinished L’Enfer will also be presented.
The Red Shoes, made all the more poignant by the recent death of its cinematographer Jack Cardiff, has been restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive in association with The British Film Institute (BFI), The Film Foundation, ITV Global Entertainment Ltd., and Janus Films, with funding provided by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, The Film Foundation, and the Louis B. Mayer Foundation.
In 1964, Clouzot’s troubled shoot of L’Enfer ground to a halt. Preservationist Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea have recreated the film using canisters with screen tests and scenes from the film, which they found.
In honour of director Joseph Losey’s centenary and his collaborators, the late Harold Pinter and Dirk Bogarde, their British film Accident (1967), restored by the BFI and Studio Canal, will be screened. Losey’s Italian film Don Giovanni (1979) will be screened too.
The World Cinema Foundation, along with the Ingmar Bergman Foundation will present Stig Björkman’s Images From the Playground, which features unseen footage from Bergman’s home movies shot during the making of his films.
Other highlights include Les Deux De La Vague by Antoine de Baecque and Emmanuel Laurent, celebrating 50 years of the New Wave. Claudio’s documentary Pietro Germi, Il Bravo, Il Bello, Il Cattivo will also screen along with a restored print of Germi’s Palme d’Or winning Signore & Signori (1966).
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