1991 Cannes Film Festival

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1991 Cannes Film Festival
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Official poster of the 44th Cannes Film Festival, an original illustration by Philippe and Pascal Lemoine. [1]
Opening film Homicide
Closing film Thelma & Louise
Location Cannes, France
Founded1946
Awards Palme d'Or :
Barton Fink [2]
No. of films19 (In Competition) [3]
Festival date9 May 1991 (1991-05-09) – 20 May 1991 (1991-05-20)
Website festival-cannes.com/en
Cannes Film Festival

The 44th Cannes Film Festival was held from 9 to 20 May 1991. [4] French-Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski served as jury president for the main competition.

Contents

American filmmakers Joel Coen and Ethan Coen won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, for the comedy film Barton Fink . [5] [6] [7]

The festival opened with Homicide by David Mamet, [8] and closed with Thelma & Louise by Ridley Scott. [9]

Juries

Roman Polanski, Jury President of the Main competition Roman Polanski at Cannes in 2013 cropped and brightened.jpg
Roman Polanski, Jury President of the Main competition

Main competition

Camera d'Or

Official selection

In Competition

The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or : [3]

English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)Production Country
The Assassin of the Tsar Цареубийца Karen Shakhnazarov Soviet Union
Anna Karamazoff Анна Карамазофф Rustam Khamdamov
Barton Fink Joel Coen and Ethan Coen United States
La Belle Noiseuse Jacques Rivette France, Switzerland
Bix Pupi Avati Italy
Cold Moon Lune froide Patrick Bouchitey France
The Double Life of Veronique La double vie de Véronique Krzysztof Kieślowski Poland, France, Norway
Europa Lars von Trier Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland
The Flesh La carne Marco Ferreri Italy
Guilty by Suspicion Irwin Winkler United States, France
Homicide (opening film) David Mamet United States
Jungle Fever Spike Lee
Life on a String 边走边唱 Chen Kaige China
Malina Werner Schroeter Germany, Austria
Out of Life Hors la vie Maroun Bagdadi France
A Rage in Harlem Bill Duke United States
The Suspended Step of the Stork Το Mετέωρο Bήμα Tου Πελαργού Theo Angelopoulos Greece
Van Gogh Maurice Pialat France
The Yes Man Il portaborse Daniele Luchetti Italy

Un Certain Regard

The following films were selected for the Un Certain Regard section: [3]

English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)Production Country
Boyz n the Hood John Singleton United States
Burial of a Potato Pogrzeb kartofla Jan Jakub Kolski Poland
A Captive in the Land Пленник земли John Berry Soviet Union,

United States

The Chosen One Ishanou Aribam Syam Sharma India
Comrade Chkalov Crosses the North Pole Переход товарища Чкалова через Северный полюс Maksim Pezhemsky Soviet Union
L'entraînement du champion avant la course Bernard FavreFrance
Escape from the 'Liberty' Cinema Ucieczka z kina 'Wolność' Wojciech Marczewski Poland
Fire! Ta Dona Adama Drabo Mali
Friends, Comrades Ystävät, toverit Rauni Mollberg Finland
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper United States
Holidays on the River Yarra Leo BerkeleyAustralia
In the Alleys of Love در کوچه‌های عشق Khosrow Sinai Iran
Lebewohl, Fremde Tevfik Başer Germany
Paths of Death and Angels Halálutak és angyalok Zoltán Kamondi Hungary
Revenge Месть Yermek Shinarbayev Soviet Union
The TraditionLaadaDrissa ToureBurkina Faso
Sango Malo Bassek Ba Kobhio Cameroon, Burkina Faso
Treasure Island L'île au trésor Raúl Ruiz United Kingdom, France, United States
Woman of the Port La mujer del puerto Arturo Ripstein Mexico
Yumeji 夢二 Seijun Suzuki Japan

Out of Competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition: [3]

English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)Production Country
Le film du cinéma suisse Michel Soutter and Jean-François Amiguet Switzerland
Jacquot de Nantes Agnès Varda France
Life Stinks Mel Brooks United States
Madonna: Truth or Dare Alek Keshishian
Prospero's Books Peter Greenaway United Kingdom, Netherlands, France, Italy, Japan
Rhapsody in August 八月の狂詩曲 Akira Kurosawa Japan
Thelma & Louise (closing film) Ridley Scott United States

Short Films Competition

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or: [3]

  • Broken Skin by Anna Campion
  • Casino by Gil Bauwens
  • Les éffaceurs by Gérald Frydman
  • Ja, Wałęsa by Jacek Skalski
  • Mal de blocs by Marc Saint-Pierre, Nathalie Saint-Gelais
  • La Noce by Régis Obadia, Joëlle Bouvier
  • Nokturno by Nikola Majdak
  • Push Comes to Shove by Bill Plympton
  • La vie selon Luc by Jean-Paul Civeyrac
  • W.A.L. by Robert Turlo
  • With Hands Raised (Z podniesionymi rekami) by Mitko Panov

Parallel sections

International Critics' Week

The following films were screened for the 30th International Critics' Week (30e Semaine de la Critique): [11]

Feature film competition

Short film competition

  • Carne by Gaspar Noé (France)
  • Die mysreriosen lebenslinien by David Rühm (Austria)
  • Livraison à domicile by Claude Philippot (France)
  • A Nice Arrangement by Gurinder Chadha (United Kingdom)
  • Once Upon a Time by Kristian Petri (Sweden)
  • Petit drame dans la vie d’une femme by Andrée Pelletier (Canada)
  • Une Symphonie du havre by Barbara Doran (Canada)

Directors' Fortnight

The following films were screened for the 1991 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs): [12]

Short films

Official Awards

Joel and Ethan Coen, Palme d'Or winners Coen brothers Cannes 2015 2 (CROPPED).jpg
Joel and Ethan Coen, Palme d'Or winners

In Competition

Caméra d'Or

Short Film Palme d'Or

Independent Awards

FIPRESCI Prizes

Commission Supérieure Technique

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

Award of the Youth

International Critics' Week

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References

  1. ↑ "Posters 1991". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 14 December 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Awards 1991: All Awards". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 26 August 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Official Selection 1991: All the Selection". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 14 December 2013.
  4. 1 2 "44ème Festival International du Film - Cannes". cinema-francais.fr (in French). Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  5. ↑ Canby, Vincent (21 May 1991). "'Barton Fink' Wins the Top Prize And 2 Others at Cannes Festival". The New York Times . Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  6. ↑ "Coen Brothers' "Barton Fink" Wins Golden Palm At Cannes". Deseret News . Archived from the original on 29 November 2017. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  7. ↑ "American Film Wins At Cannes, But Madonna Comes A Cropper". The Philadelphia Inquirer . Archived from the original on 18 December 2013.
  8. ↑ "The Cinematic Carnival Of Cannes" . Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  9. ↑ "'Barton Fink' Makes History At Cannes Fest". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  10. ↑ "Juries 1991: Feature film". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 15 April 2016.
  11. ↑ "30e Selecion de la Semaine de la Critique - 1991". archives.semainedelacritique.com. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
  12. ↑ "Quinzaine 1991". quinzaine-realisateurs.com. Archived from the original on 13 February 2018. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
  13. ↑ "1991 - Le Jury, Les Prix". cannes-fest.com (in French). Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  14. 1 2 3 4 "Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1991". imdb.com. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
  15. ↑ "FIPRESCI Awards 1991". fipresci.org. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
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