2007 Cannes Film Festival

2007 Cannes Film Festival
Official poster of the 60th Cannes Film Festival.[1]
Opening filmMy Blueberry Nights
Closing filmDays of Darkness
LocationCannes, France
Founded1946
AwardsPalme d'Or:
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Hosted byDiane Kruger
No. of films22 (Main Competition)
Festival date16 May 2007 (2007-05-16) – 27 May 2007 (2007-05-27)
Websitefestival-cannes.com/en
Cannes Film Festival

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]

2007 Un Certain Regard poster by Italian comics artist Enrico Marini.[8]

Juries

Main Competition

The following people were appointed as the Jury for the feature films of the 2007 Official Selection:[9]

Un Certain Regard

Cinéfondation and Short Films Competition

Caméra d'Or

Official Selection

In Competition

The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:[10]

English title Original title Director(s) Production Country
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days 4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile Cristian Mungiu Romania
Aleksandra Александра Alexander Sokurov Russia
The Banishment Изгнание Andrey Zvyagintsev
Breath 숨 Kim Ki-duk South Korea
Death Proof Quentin Tarantino United States
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Le scaphandre et le papillon Julian Schnabel France, United States
The Edge of Heaven Auf der anderen Seite Fatih Akın Germany, Turkey
Import/Export Ulrich Seidl Austria
The Last Mistress Une vieille maîtresse Catherine Breillat France, Italy
Love Songs Les chansons d'amour Christophe Honoré France
The Man from London A londoni férfi Béla Tarr Hungary, France, Germany
The Mourning Forest 殯の森 Naomi Kawase Japan
My Blueberry Nights (opening film) Wong Kar-wai China, France, Hong Kong, United States
No Country for Old Men Joel and Ethan Coen United States
Paranoid Park Gus Van Sant United States, France
Persepolis Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud France, Iran
Promise Me This Завет Emir Kusturica Serbia
Secret Sunshine 밀양 Lee Chang-dong South Korea
Silent Light Stellet licht Carlos Reygadas Mexico, France, Netherlands, Germany
Tehilim Raphaël Nadjari Israel, France
We Own the Night James Gray United States
Zodiac David Fincher

Un Certain Regard

The following films were selected for the competition of Un Certain Regard:[10]

English Title Original Title Director(s) Production Country
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' 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

Out of Competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[10]

English Title Original Title Director(s) Production Country
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

Special Screenings

The following films were screened specially for the 60th Festival.[10]

English Title Original Title Director(s) Production Country
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

Cinéfondation

The following short films were selected for the competition of Cinéfondation:[10]

  • A Reunion by Sung-Hoon Hong
  • Aditi singh by Mickael Kummer
  • Ahora todos parecen contentos by Gonzalo Tobal
  • Berachel bitha haktana by Efrat Corem
  • Chinese Whispers by Raka Dutta
  • For the Love of God by Joe Tucker
  • Goyta by Joanna Jurewicz
  • Halbe Stunden by Nicolas Wackerbarth
  • Minus by Pavle Vuckovic
  • Mish'olim by Hagar Ben-Asher
  • Neostorozhnost by Alexander Kugel
  • Rondo by Marja Mikkonen
  • Ru Dao by Tao Chen
  • Saba by Thereza Menezes, Gregorio Graziosi
  • Triple 8 Palace by Alexander Ku
  • Vita di Giacomo by Luca Governatori

Short film Competition

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:[10]

  • Ah Ma by Anthony Chen (Singapore)
  • Ark by Grzegorz Jonkajtys (Poland)
  • The Last 15 by Antonio Campos (United States)
  • Looking Glass by Erik Rosenlund (Sweden)
  • My Dear Rosseta by Yang Hae-hoon (South Korea)
  • My Sister by Marco Van Geffen (Netherlands)
  • The Oates' Valor by Tim Thaddeus Cahill United States)
  • Resistance aux tremblements by Olivier Hems (France)
  • Run by Mark Albiston (New Zealand)
  • Gia to onoma tou spourgitiou by Kyros Papavassiliou (Cyprus)
  • Ver Llover by Elisa Miller (Mexico)

Cannes Classics

Cannes Classics places the spotlight on documentaries about cinema[11] and restored masterworks from the past.[12]

Tributes[13]

Documentaries about Cinema

Restored prints

Parallel Sections

International Critics' Week

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

Directors' Fortnight

The following films were screened for the 2007 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):[15]

Tous Les Cinemas du Monde

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]

India

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]

Lebanon

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]

Stephen Frears, Jury President

Official Awards

Cristian Mungiu, Palme d'Or winner
Naomi Kawase, Gran Prix winner
U2 perform at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, prior to the screening of U2 3D

In Competition

The following films and people received the 2007 Official selection awards:[22]

Un Certain Regard

Cinéfondation

  • First Prize: Ahora todos parecen contentos by Gonzalo Tobal
  • Second Prize: Ru Dao by Tao Chen
  • Third Prize: Minus by Pavle Vuckovic

Caméra d'Or

Short Films Competition

Independent Awards

FIPRESCI Prizes

Vulcan Award of the Technical Artist

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

International Critics' Week

CICAE Jury Cannes

Prix François Chalais

Notes

  1. ^ Raymond Depardon, Takeshi Kitano, Theo Angelopoulos, Andrei Konchalovsky, Nanni Moretti, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Joel and Ethan Coen, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Zhang Yimou, Amos Gitai, Jane Campion, Atom Egoyan, Aki Kaurismäki, Olivier Assayas, Youssef Chahine, Tsai Ming-liang, Lars von Trier, Raoul Ruiz, Claude Lelouch, Gus Van Sant, Roman Polanski, Michael Cimino, David Cronenberg, Wong Kar-wai, Abbas Kiarostami, Bille August, Elia Suleiman, Manoel de Oliveira, Walter Salles, Wim Wenders, Chen Kaige, Ken Loach, David Lynch

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