1972 Cannes Film Festival

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1972 Cannes Film Festival
CFF72poster.jpg
Official poster of the 25th Cannes Film Festival. [1]
Opening film L'aventure c'est l'aventure
Closing film Frenzy
Location Cannes, France
Founded1946
Awards Grand Prix :
The Mattei Affair
The Working Class
Goes to Heaven
No. of films25 (In Competition) [2]
Festival date4 May 1972 (1972-05-04) – 19 May 1972 (1972-05-19)
Website festival-cannes.com/en
Cannes Film Festival

The 25th annual Cannes Film Festival took place from 4 to 19 May 1972. American filmmaker Joseph Losey served as jury president for the main competition. [3]

Contents

The Grand Prix du Festival International du Film, then the fetival's main prize, was unanimously jointly awarded to Italian drama films The Working Class Goes to Heaven by Elio Petri and The Mattei Affair by Francesco Rosi. [4]

The festival opened with L'aventure, c'est l'aventure by Claude Lelouch, [5] [6] and closed with Frenzy by Alfred Hitchcock. [7]

Juries

Main Competition

Short Films Competition

Official Selection

In Competition

The following feature films competed for the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film: [2]

English TitleOriginal TitleDirector(s)Production Country
Dear Louise Chère Louise Philippe de Broca France
A Fan's Notes Eric Till Canada
Havoc Das Unheil Peter Fleischmann West Germany
Hearth Fires Les Feux de la Chandeleur Serge Korber France, Italy
I Love You Rosa אני אוהב אותך רוזה Moshé Mizrahi Israel
Images Robert Altman United Kingdom, United States
Jeremiah Johnson Sydney Pollack United States
King, Queen, Knave Jerzy Skolimowski West Germany, United States
Malpertuis Harry Kümel Belgium, France, West Germany
The Mattei Affair Il Caso Mattei Francesco Rosi Italy
Oil Lamps Petrolejové lampy Juraj Herz Czechoslovakia
Pearl in the Crown Perła w koronie Kazimierz Kutz Poland
Red Psalm Még kér a nép Miklós Jancsó Hungary
The Ruling Class Peter Medak United Kingdom
The Seduction of Mimi Mimí metallurgico ferito nell'onore Lina Wertmüller Italy
Silence 沈黙 Masahiro Shinoda Japan
Slaughterhouse-Five George Roy Hill United States
Solaris Солярис Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet Union
The Surveyors Les arpenteurs Michel Soutter Switzerland
To Find a Man Buzz Kulik United States
Trotta Johannes Schaaf West Germany
The True Nature of Bernadette La vraie nature de Bernadette Gilles Carle Canada
The Visitors Elia Kazan United States
We Won't Grow Old Together Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble Maurice Pialat France
The Working Class Goes to Heaven La classe operaia va in paradiso Elio Petri Italy

Out of Competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition: [2]

Short Films Competition

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or: [2]

Parallel sections

International Critics' Week

The following feature films were screened for the 11th International Critics' Week (11e Semaine de la Critique): [9]

  • Avoir 20 ans dans les Aurès by René Vautier (France)
  • Fritz the Cat by Ralph Bakshi (United States)
  • The Hamburg Uprising of 1923 (Der Hamburger Aufstand Oktober 1923) by Reiner Etz, Gisela Tuchtenhagen, Klaus Wildenhahn (West Germany)
  • Dirty Money (La Maudite Galette) by Denys Arcand (Canada)
  • Pilgrimage by Beni Montreso (United States)
  • The Trial of Catonsville Nine by Gorgon Davidson (United States)
  • Winter Soldier (Anonymous) (United States)
  • Prata Palomares by André Faria (Brazil) (screening was canceled at the request of the Brazilian government)

Directors' Fortnight

The following films were screened for the 1972 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs): [10]

Short films
  • Autoportrait d'un pornographe by Robert Swaim (France)
  • Camille ou la comédie catastrophique by Claude Miller (France)
  • Celui qui venait d'ailleurs by Atahualpa Lichy, J.P. Torok (France)
  • Das Kaputte Kino by H.H.K. Schoenherr (Switzerland)
  • Death of a Sandwichman by G. Henderickx, Robbe De Hert (Belgium)
  • Drug Abuse by Pat Lehman (United States)
  • Empereur Tomato-Ketchup by Shuji Terayama (Japan)
  • Homo Augens by Ante Zaninovic (Yougoslavie)
  • Kamasutra Rides Again by Bob Godfrey (United Kingdom)
  • La Chute by Paul Dopff (France)
  • Le Cabot by P. Letellier J. (France)
  • Le Sourire by Paul Dopff (France)
  • Légendes et chateaux by Patrick Hella (Belgium)
  • Luger by Georges Bensoussan (France)
  • Saint-Denis sur Avenir by Sarah Maldoror (France)
  • Yunbogi no nikki by Nagisa Oshima (Japan)

Official Awards

Joseph Losey, Jury President Joseph Losey 1965.jpg
Joseph Losey, Jury President
Francesco Rosi, Grand Prix winner Francesco Rosi Cannes.jpg
Francesco Rosi, Grand Prix winner

In Competition

Short Films Competition

Independent Awards

FIPRESCI Prize

Commission Supérieure Technique

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References

  1. ↑ "Posters 1972". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 21 January 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Official Selection 1972: All the Selection". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013.
  3. ↑ "25ème Festival International du Film - Cannes". cinema-francais.fr (in French). Retrieved 4 June 2017.
  4. 1 2 "1972 - Le Jury, Les Prix". cannes-fest.com (in French). Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  5. ↑ "L'Aventure c'est l'aventure". festival-lumiere.org (in French). Retrieved 13 July 2017.
  6. ↑ "L'Aventure c'est l'aventure: Sea, sex & classe!". cinecomedies.com. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
  7. ↑ "The closing films at Cannes". vodkaster.com. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  8. ↑ "Juries 1972: Long film". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  9. ↑ "11e Selecion de la Semaine de la Critique - 1972". archives.semainedelacritique.com. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  10. ↑ "Quinzaine 1972". quinzaine-realisateurs.com. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  11. ↑ "Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1972". imdb.com. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
  12. ↑ "FIPRESCI Awards 1972". fipresci.org. Retrieved 30 June 2017.

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