{"id":8919,"date":"2018-05-03T11:00:40","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T10:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/?p=8919"},"modified":"2019-03-21T09:44:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T09:44:22","slug":"10-films-to-look-forward-to-at-cannes-film-festival-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/05\/03\/10-films-to-look-forward-to-at-cannes-film-festival-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"10 films to look forward to at Cannes Film Festival 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bonjour mesdames et messieurs, c&#8217;est encore cette p\u00c3\u00a9riode de l&#8217;ann\u00c3\u00a9e. In the next few weeks, we will be seeing the seventy first edition of the Cannes Film Festival beginning. There\u2019s been a wide list of selections, so we at MusicMagpie will be counting down a list of potential features to look out for.<\/p>\n<p>All countries are covered from the dominant likes of the US, France, Italy and Japan to the more far reaching, barely spoken of likes of Lebanon, Kazakhstan and Colombia.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, due to conflicts with the organisers, Netflix have withdrawn their acquired features from the festival meaning we will have to wait until later in the year for the likes of Alfonso Cuaron\u2019s <em>Roma<\/em> and Orson Welles\u2019s <em>The Other Side of the Wind<\/em> (which according to insiders, were highly desired by Thierry Fremaux).<\/p>\n<p>Previously mentioned features <em>Everybody Knows<\/em>, <em>Ash is the Purest White<\/em>, <em>The House that Jack Built<\/em>, <em>The Man Who Killed Don Quixote<\/em> and <em>Under the Silver Lake<\/em> from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/2018\/01\/09\/the-best-new-independent-films-of-2018\/\">our earlier\u00a0list of upcoming indie, foreign language and documentary features of 2018<\/a>\u00a0have been announced as competition entries along with a fiftieth anniversary screening of <em>2001: A Space Odyssey<\/em>, so let\u2019s see what else there is to look forward to.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Birds of Passage <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Directors: Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra (Colombia)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_cbzb4pXZT0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Colombian cinema has been picking up traction in the last twenty years and perhaps the most noted example is the acclaim and subsequent Oscar nomination bestowed upon Ciro Guerra\u2019s <em>Embrace of the Serpent<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Now Guerra has returned, co-directing with his wife Cristina Gallego, with <em>Birds of a Passage<\/em>, a story of an indigenous family entering the drug trade in seventies Colombia. The trailer dropped recently, so let\u2019s hope Colombia\u2019s most prominent filmmaker can keep the momentum going.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Black Klansman\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Director: Spike Lee (USA)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alternately titled <em>BlackKklansman<\/em>, this latest Spike Lee joint is a biopic of black cop Ron Stallworth (whose autobiography served as the basis of the film) and his infiltration and subsequent rise through the ranks of the Klu Klux Klan.<\/p>\n<p>With <em>Get Out<\/em>\u2019s Jordan Peele and Jason Blum reuniting in producing roles and a cast including John David Washington, Adam Driver, <em>Spider-Man Homecoming<\/em>\u2019s Laura Harrier, <em>Straight Outta Compton<\/em>\u2019s Corey Hawkins, Topher Grace and Harry Belafonte, this could be a good one if Lee\u2019s on form.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Cold War<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Director: Pawe\u00c5\u201a Pawlikowski (Poland)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You may either know him as the immigrant filmmaker who cast a critical eye on British social class and alienation in <em>Last Resort<\/em> and <em>My Summer of Love<\/em> or the director of the Bresson-esque road movie <em>Ida<\/em>, but we can all agree that the latest feature of Polish auteur Pawe\u00c5\u201a Pawlikowski is very much anticipated.<\/p>\n<p>Returning to the Cold War setting of <em>Ida<\/em> (and possibly the monochrome cinematography of Lukasz Zal), Pawlikowski this time tells a love story of two mismatched people across the backdrops of 1950s Poland, Berlin, Paris and the former Yugoslavia.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon is set to release the film in the US and Artificial Eye in the UK, so keep a close watch on the film\u2019s release date.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Dogman <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Director: Matteo Garrone (Italy)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eum93mpzpE0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After dabbling in the comedy and fantasy genres with <em>Reality<\/em> and <em>The Tale of Tales<\/em>, Garrone returns to the crime-ridden streets he trod in 2008\u2019s <em>Gomorrah<\/em> with an \u201curban western\u201d\u009d about a coked-up dog groomer who commits a homicide in late eighties Italy.<\/p>\n<p>The trailer landed recently and from the look of it, it looks quite visually interesting and could be something to look out for if Garrone has successfully balanced style with substance.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>The Image Book<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Director: Jean-Luc Godard (France) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another one of his cinematic essays, one of the last surviving members of the Nouvelle Vague examines the modern Arab world in a feature spread across five chapters and shot over two years in numerous countries, including Tunisia.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Shoplifters<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda (Japan)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Rwcb5ki1f-4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He made a bit of a hiccup at Venice last year, but the man they call the modern day Ozu (though Kore-eda prefers to be likened to Ken Loach) is back with a drama about a family of crooks taking in an abandoned child.<\/p>\n<p>He managed previous accolades with <em>Nobody Knows<\/em> and <em>Like Father, Like Son<\/em>, but can Kore-eda land the big prize with this feature?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Summer<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Director: Kirill Serebrennikov (Russia)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After making a splash at Cannes two years ago with <em>The Student<\/em>, director Kirill Serebrennikov, despite being under house arrest for a combination of fraud and the homophobia of the Russian state, upgrades from Un Certain Regard to a slot in the main competition with this depiction of the underground rock scene in 1981.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Three Faces <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Director: Jafar Panahi (Iran)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Has being banned from filmmaking for twenty years done anything to slow down the output of Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi? I think this latest feature of three actresses and their stories against the mountain slopes outside Tehran speaks for itself.<\/p>\n<p>And to be honest, I\u2019m still wondering how they manage to get these features out of Iran without the authorities knowing.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>The Wild Pear Tree<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He has been collecting Cannes prizes for the likes of <em>Uzak<\/em>, <em>Three Monkeys<\/em>, <em>Once Upon a Time in Anatolia<\/em> and the Palme d\u2019Or winning <em>Winter Sleep<\/em>, now Nuri Bilge Ceylan is back for more additions to his trophy cabinet with the tale of an aspiring writer returning to her native village and having to deal with her father\u2019s debts.<\/p>\n<p>Acquired by New Wave Films for a UK release and one of the many late additions to the competition, let\u2019s see if it was one worth including and Ceylan gets another prize out of it.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Wildlife<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Director: Paul Dano (USA)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8yFxapmKLdM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We can assume that Greta Gerwig\u2019s success with <em>Lady Bird<\/em> is continuing to open the successful floodgate of her fellow indie actors entering the director\u2019s chair.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent example can be seen in the directorial debut of Paul Dano, which received acclaim at Sundance and is set to open the International Critic\u2019s Week section here. <em>Wildlife<\/em> is a 60s period piece adapted from a novel by Richard Ford involving a boy watching his parents\u2019 marriage fall apart and his mother fall in love with another man.<\/p>\n<p>Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan headline the feature with <em>The Visit<\/em>\u2019s Ed Oxenbould in the lead role. This could also potentially form part of a comedic actor-turned director one-two with A24 set to release Jonah Hill\u2019s directorial debut <em>Mid-90s<\/em> later this year.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Honourable mentions: <em>Leave No Trace<\/em> (Debra Granik, USA), <em>Mandy<\/em> (Panos Cosmatos, USA), <em>Long Day&#8217;s Journey Into Night<\/em> (Gan Bi, China), <em>Happy as Lazzaro<\/em> (Alice Rohrwacher, Italy), <em>Asako I &amp; II<\/em> (Ry\u00c5\u00absuke Hamaguchi, Japan), <em>The Little One<\/em> (Sergei Dvortsevoy, Kazakhstan)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>And of course any release that comes out of left field and surprises us all\u201d\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>Want to check our previous Palme D&#8217;or winners, along with loads of other movies? <a href=\"https:\/\/store.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blu-ray\">Buy Blu-rays<\/a> from the musicMagpie Store today and you&#8217;ll get FREE delivery too! 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