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Cannes 2009 / Competition

15 articles available in total starting from 24/04/2009. Last article published on 23/05/2009.

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Tsai Ming-Liang’s epic encounter between Léaud and Kang-sheng

With his tribute to cinema and in particular French film, Visage, Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-Liang today with Spanish director Isabel Coixet closed the Competition of the 62nd Cannes Film...  

23/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Competition/France-Taiwan

Sex, sushi and lies in Coixet’s Tokyo

An original love story between a Japanese hitwoman and a Spanish wine seller in Tokyo marks the Competition debut of Spain’s Isabel Coixet at the Cannes Film Festival. The setting and subject of...  

23/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Competition/Spain

Enter the Void's drugs, sex and spiritual journey

There was commotion yesterday at the Cannes Film Festival, where enthusiastic applause and intense booing greeted the competition screening of Argentinean-born director Gaspar Noé’s third feature...  

23/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Competition/France

Suleiman’s Time That Remains rich in humour and symbolism

Co-produced by France, Belgium, Italy and the UK, Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman’s third feature, The Time That Remains, was presented yesterday evening in competition at the 62nd Cannes Film...  

22/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Competition/France

Haneke and his village of the damned

A regular in competition at the FCannes Film Festival since 1997 and winner in 2001 of the Jury Prize for The Piano Teacher (whose star Isabelle Huppert is this year’s jury president), Austrian...  

21/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Competition/Germany

Lies spiral out of control for Cluzet in In the Beginning

"A road is always the beginning of a story and I hope that this second chance will be the right one": this short speech given by a councillor, one of the protagonists in Xavier Giannoli’s In the...  

21/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Competition/France

Magician Resnais’ Wild Grass

"N’importe, nous nous serons bien aimés" (“No matter, we shall have loved each other well”): this quotation from Gustave Flaubert, placed at the heart of Alain Resnais’ latest feature, Wild Grass,...  

20/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Competition/France

Ken and the King score a goal

Remember the Humphrey Bogart who "appeared" to Woody Allen in Play It Again, Sam, offering him tips on what to do and what not to do to get the girl? Ken Loach takes the idea and runs with it in...  

18/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Competition/UK

Chaos reigns in Antichrist

There was an uproar of applause and whistles after the press screening of Antichrist, the new work by highly talented, bold and intransigent director Lars Von Trier, presented yesterday evening in...  

18/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Competition/Denmark

Franco-Chinese alliance for Johnnie To’s Vengeance

A self-confessed admirer of Jean-Pierre Melville’s work, virtuoso Hong Kong director Johnnie To today presented his film Vengeance in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Displaying To’s...  

17/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Competition | France

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