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Thursday, April 23, 2009

Cannes 2009


Here's the lineup for the films selected to compete for the Palme d'Or during the 62nd Cannes Film Festival:

Pedro Almodovar's Los Abrazos Rotos
Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank
Jacques Audiard's Un Prophete
Marco Bellocchio's Vincere
Jane Campion's Bright Star
Isabel Coixet's Map of the Sounds of Tokyo
Xavier Giannoli's A L'Origine
Michael Haneke's Das Weisse Band
Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock
Ken Loach's Looking for Eric
Ye Lou's Chun Feng Chen Zui Se Ye Wan
Brillante Mendoza's Kinatay
Gaspar Noe's Enter the Void
Chan-Wook Park's Bak-Jwi
Alain Resnais' Les Herbes Folles
Elia Suleiman's The Time That Remains
Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds
Johnnie To's Vengeance
Ming-liang Tsai's Visage -
Lars Von Trier's Antichrist

The jury consists of French actress Isabelle Huppert (chair), Italian actress/filmmaker Asia Argento, Turkish actor/writer/director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, South Korean writer/director Chang-dong Lee, American writer/director James Gray, British writer Hanif Kureishi, Taiwanese actress Shu Qi, and American actress Robin Wright Penn (whose husband chaired last year's jury).

Other films that will be on view, out of the competition, include Heath Ledger's final film, Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Walt Disney's 3-D animated feature Up was selected to open the festival.

The festival runs May 13-24.

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