![]() Official poster of the 60th Cannes Film Festival. [1] | |
Opening film | My Blueberry Nights |
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Closing film | Days of Darkness |
Location | Cannes, France |
Founded | 1946 |
Awards | Palme d'Or: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days |
Hosted by | Diane Kruger |
No. of films | 22 (Main Competition) |
Festival date | 16 May 2007 – 27 May 2007 |
Website | festival-cannes |
The 60th Cannes Film Festival was held from 16 to 27 May 2007. British filmmaker Stephen Frears served as jury president for the main competition. [2] Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu won the Palme d'Or for the drama film 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days . [3] [4]
The official poster featured Pedro Almodóvar, Juliette Binoche, Jane Campion, Souleymane Cissé, Penélope Cruz, Gérard Depardieu, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis and Wong Kar-wai, all photographed by Alex Majoli, as a commemoration of the 60th festival edition.
The festival opened with My Blueberry Nights by Wong Kar-wai, [5] and closed with Days of Darkness by Denys Arcand. [6] German actress Diane Kruger was the mistress of ceremonies. [7]
The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or: [10]
The following films were selected for the competition of Un Certain Regard: [10]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Actrices | Valeria Bruni Tedeschi | France | |
And Along Come Tourists | Am Ende kommen Touristen | Robert Thalheim | Germany |
The Band's Visit | ביקור התזמורת | Eran Kolirin | Israel, France, United States |
Blind Mountain | 盲山 | Li Yang | China |
California Dreamin' (endless) | California Dreamin' (nesfârșit) | Cristian Nemescu | Romania |
Calle Santa Fe | Carmen Castillo | Chile | |
Et toi, t'es sur qui? | Lola Doillon | France | |
Flight of the Red Balloon | Le voyage du ballon rouge | Hou Hsiao-hsien | France, Taiwan |
Magnus | Kadri Kõusaar | Estonia, United Kingdom | |
My Brother Is an Only Child | Mio fratello è figlio unico | Daniele Luchetti | Italy |
Mister Lonely | Harmony Korine | United Kingdom, France, Ireland, United States | |
Munyurangabo | Lee Isaac Chung | Rwanda, United States | |
Night Train | 夜車 | Diao Yinan | China |
Pleasure Factory | 快乐工厂 | Ekachai Uekrongtham | Singapore, Thailand |
The Pope's Toilet | El Baño del Papa | Enrique Fernandez and César Charlone | Uruguay, Brazil, France |
Solitary Fragments | La soledad | Jaime Rosales | Spain |
A Stray Girlfriend | Una novia errante | Ana Katz | Argentina |
Terror's Advocate | L'Avocat de la terreur | Barbet Schroeder | France |
Water Lilies | Naissance des Pieuvres | Céline Sciamma | |
You, the Living | Du levande | Roy Andersson | Sweden, France, Denmark, Germany, Norway |
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition: [10]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Boarding Gate | Olivier Assayas | France, Luxembourg | |
Days of Darkness (closing film) | L'Âge des ténèbres | Denys Arcand | Canada, France |
Déficit | Gael García Bernal | Mexico | |
Expired | Cecilia Miniucchi | United States | |
Go Go Tales | Abel Ferrara | United States, Italy | |
Héros | Bruno Merle | France | |
A Mighty Heart | Michael Winterbottom | United States, United Kingdom | |
Ocean's Thirteen | Steven Soderbergh | United States | |
Sicko | Michael Moore | ||
To Each His Own Cinema | Chacun son cinéma: une déclaration d'amour au grand écran | Various directors [a] | France |
Triangle | 铁三角 | Ringo Lam, Johnny To and Tsui Hark | Hong Kong, China |
U2 3D | Catherine Owens and Mark Pellington | United States |
The following films were screened specially for the 60th Festival. [10]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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11th Hour | Nadia Conners and Leila Conners Petersen | United States | |
Boxes | Les Boites | Jane Birkin | France |
Crossed Tracks | Roman de Gare | Claude Lelouch | |
Cruising (1980) | William Friedkin | United States, West Germany | |
Fengming, a Chinese Memoir | 和鳳鳴 | Wang Bing | China, Hong Kog, Belgium |
One Hundred Nails | Centochiodi | Ermanno Olmi | Italy |
Rebellion: The Litvinenko Case | Бунт: Де́ло Литвине́нко | Andrei Nekrasov | Russia |
Retour en Normandie | Nicolas Philibert | France | |
Summer of '62 | Cartouches gauloises | Mehdi Charef | |
Ulzhan | Volker Schlöndorff | France, Germany, Kazakhstan | |
The War (7 episodes) | Ken Burns and Lynn Novick | United States | |
Young Yakuza | Jean-Pierre Limosin | France, United States, Japan |
The following short films were selected for the competition of Cinéfondation: [10]
The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or: [10]
Cannes Classics places the spotlight on documentaries about cinema [11] and restored masterworks from the past. [12] [13]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Restored prints | |||
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) | Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed | Lotte Reiniger | Weimar Germany |
La Bandera (1935) | Julien Duvivier | France | |
Dracula (1958) | Terence Fisher | United Kingdom | |
Forest of the Hanged (1964) | Pădurea Spânzuraților | Liviu Ciulei | Romania |
Hondo (1953) | John Farrow | United States | |
Made In Jamaica (2006) | Jérôme Laperrousaz | France, United States | |
The Memorial Gate for Virtuous Women (1962) | 열녀문 | Shin Sang-Ok | South Korea |
Mikey and Nicky (1976) | Elaine May | United States | |
My Last Mistress (1943) | Donne-moi tes yeux | Sacha Guitry | France |
Suspiria (1977) | Dario Argento | Italy | |
Twelve Angry Men (1957) | Sidney Lumet | United States | |
Words for Battle (short) (1941) | Humphrey Jennings | United Kingdom | |
Yo Yo (1965) | Yoyo | Pierre Etaix | France |
Tributes | |||
Hamlet (1948) | Laurence Olivier | United Kingdom | |
Kanał (1956) | Andrzej Wajda | Poland | |
Richard III (1955) | Laurence Olivier | United Kingdom | |
Henry V (1944) | |||
Documentaries about Cinema | |||
Brando | Mimi Freedman and Leslie Greif | United States | |
Lindsay Anderson, Never Apologize | Mike Kaplan | United States | |
Maurice Pialat, L'amour existe | Anne-Marie Faux and Jean-Pierre Devillers | France | |
Pierre Rissient | Todd McCarthy | United States |
The following films were screened for the 46th International Critics' Week (46e Semaine de la Critique): [14]
Feature film competition
Short Films Competition
Special Screenings
The following films were screened for the 2007 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs): [15]
Tous Les Cinemas du Monde (World Cinema) began in 2005 to showcase films from a variety of different countries. From 19 May to 25 May 2007, films were screened from India, Lebanon, Poland, Kenya, Guinea, Angola, Slovenia, and Colombia. [16] [17]
The first two days of this program held during 19 May to 25 May 2007 featured special screening of Indian films; Saira (2005), Missed Call (2005), Lage Raho Munna Bhai (2006), Dosar (2006), Veyil, (2006), Guru (2007), Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal (2007), and Dharm (2007). [18]
Debuting at the Director's Fortnight was Nadine Labaki's Caramel, a charming dramedy about five women who gather at a beauty salon and deal with their everyday problems with men, social expectation, sexuality, and tradition vs. modernizing times. Labaki not only directed and co-wrote the film but plays the lead as well. The rest of the cast is composed mostly of unprofessional actors, all of whom deliver very convincing performances and add a lot of color and depth to the film. [19] [20] Reminiscent of a Pedro Almodóvar picture, Caramel is unique not just for its technical and creative sophistication but also for not tackling any of the religious, political, or war-related issues that have continued to plague its setting, Lebanon, til now. The film proved to be a sleeper at the festival and was distributed in well over 40 countries, becoming an international hit. [21]
The following films and people received the 2007 Official selection awards: [22]
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