The Cannes Film Festival on Thursday announced its 2013
Official Selections, with Steven Soderbergh’s Liberace biopic and Drive
partnership Ryan Gosling and Nicolas Winding Refn’s second film Only
God Forgives emerging as the frontrunners for the coveted Palme d’Or.
Other films in the running for the top-price include Inside
Llewyn Davis, directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, and Roman Polanski’s Venus In
Fur.
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| President of the Cannes Film Festival Gilles Jacob, right, and artistic Director Thierry Fremaux, attend a news conference to announce this 2013 festival line up in front of the Cannes International Film Festival |
The 66th annual Cannes Film Festival is scheduled to be run
from May 15-26, with Oscar winning US director Steven Spielberg, whose latest
film Lincoln has been nominated for a dozen awards at the
Academy Awards ceremony recently, heading the panel of jury. Actress Tautou
will host the event.
Soderbergh, who hit the jackpot in 1989 for his film Sex,
Lies and Videotape, has made a stunning comeback in the competition with
his hotly-anticipated movie Behind the Candelabra. The movie is
starred by Michael Douglas, who will be seen as swashbuckling entertainer
Liberace and veiling his homosexuality publically. His gay role in the movie,
set to be aired on HBO later this month, is played by Matt Damon.
Directed by James Gray and starred by Oscar-winner Marion
Cotillard. Joaquin Phoenix and Jeremy Renner,The Immigrant is also
expected to take the center-stage. The story of film rotates around a young
girl, who snared into the life of vaudeville and burlesque.
American auteur director Alexandra Payne will present his comedy
movie Nebraska, about a son and father, rambling from the Montana
to Nebraska to get some money.
Another movie nominated for Palme d’Or was The
violent thriller but it was vanquished by Terence Malick’sThe Tree
of Life. However, the movie helped director Refn to fall in best director
category.
Iranian director Asghar Farhadi – who claimed Best
Foreign-Language Oscar in last year for his Persian FilmA Separation, is
also in the competition with his new film, The Past while
contentious Japanese director Takashi Miike’s is also in contention with his
crime-thriller Straw Shield.
The only British film featuring in the event is Stephen
Frears’ Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight.
Last year Michael Haneke’s Amour had won
Palme d’Or while Grand Prix had went to Matteo Garrone.
Films in the competition:
- Tian Zhu Ding directed by Zhangke Jia
- The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza) directed by Paolo Sorrentino
- Like Father Like Son (Soshite Chichi Ni Naru) directed by Kore-Eda Hirokazu
- Only God Forgives directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
- Borgman directed by Alex Van Warmerdam
- Behind the Candelabra directed by Steven Soderbergh
- Jimmy P (Un Indien des Plaines) directed by Arnaud Desplechin
- Inside Llewyn Davis directed by Joel and Ethan Coen
- Venus in Fur (La Venua a la Fourrure) directed by Roman Polanski
- Un Chateau en Italie directed by Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi
- Just 17 (Jeune & Jolie) directed by Francois Ozon
- Straw Shield (Wara No Tate) directed by Takashi Miike
- Michael Kohlhaas directed by Arnaud des Pallières
- The Past (Le Passé) directed by Asghar Farhadi
- Heli directed by Amat Escalante
- The Immigrant directed by James Gray
- Grisgris directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
- Nebraska directed by Alexander Payne
- La Vie D’Adele directed by Abdellatif Kechiche
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