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Cannes Film Festival · 2013

Cannes Film Festival 2013

Cannes Classics

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23 films · 11 reviews

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The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz

Review preview for The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz

Dreyfuss is a force of nature. His energy is boundless, his eyes sparkle with ideas, he runs (not walks), he gushes (not speaks), he laughs like a hyena.

Monica Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
The ambitions of an energetic young Jewish Canadian in Montreal, 1948.

(Country: Canada; Year: 1974; Director: Ted Kotcheff; Writer: Mordecai Richler, based on the novel by Mordecai Richler; Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Micheline Lanctot, Jack Warden, Randy Quaid, Joseph Wiseman, Denholm Elliott)

An Autumn Afternoon (Sanma no aji)

A father who is dependent on his daughter comes to realise that she needs to find a life of her own. Out to own as part of The Ozu Collection: Volume 4.

(Country: Japan; Year: 1962; Director: Yasujiro Ozu; Writer: Kôgo Noda, Yasujiro Ozu; Stars: Chishu Ryu, Keiji Sada, Mariko Okada, , Ryuji Kita, Shinichirô Mikami, Nobuo Nakamura, Kuniko Miyake, Teruo Yoshida, Noriko Maki, Eijirô Tono, Kyôko Kishida, Michiyo Kan, Toyoko Takahashi, Shinobu Asaji)

La Belle Et La Bête (Beauty And The Beast)

Timeless classic that lives up to the label.

(Country: France; Year: 1946; Director: Jean Cocteau; Writer: Jean Cocteau, based on the story by Mme Leprince de Beaumont; Stars: Jean Marais, Josette Day, Marcel Andre, Mila Parely, Nane Germon, Michel Auclair, Raoul Marco)

Marking fifty years since the death of Jean Cocteau

The Birds

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The way The Birds is shot is the stuff of legend.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
Chaos comes to an isolated community when birds begin attacking people in this Hitchcock classic.

(Country: US; Year: 1963; Director: Alfred Hitchcock; Writer: Evan Hunter, based on the book by Daphne Du Maurier.; Stars: Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Veronica Cartwright) , Trailer

Blazing Sun (Purple Noon)

A young man, with a talent for mimicry, is sent to Europe to track down a playboy.

(Country: France, Italy; Year: 1960; Director: René Clément; Writer: Patricia Highsmith, René Clément, Paul Gégauff; Stars: Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforêt, Erno Crisa, Frank Latimore, Billy Kearns, Ave Ninchi, Viviane Chantel, Nerio Bernardi, Barbel Fanger, Lily Romanelli, Nicolas Petrov, Elvire Popesco, Paul Muller, Romy Schneider)

Borom Sarret

A cart driver struggles to make ends meet.

(Country: Senegal; Year: 1969; Director: Ousmane Sembene; Writer: Ousmane Sembene; Stars: Ly Abdoulay, Albourah)

Cleopatra

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Few actors have ever come to embody a historical figure in such a powerful way.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
An epic based on the life of the legendary queen.

(Country: UK, US, Switzerland; Year: 1963; Director: Joseph L Mankiewicz, Rouben Mamoulian, Darryl F. Zanuck; Writer: Joseph L Mankiewicz, Ranald MacDougall, Sidney Buchman, Plutarch, Suetonius, Appian, Carlo Mario Franzero, Ben Hecht; Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Pamela Brown, George Cole, Hume Cronyn, Cesare Danova, Kenneth Haigh, Andrew Keir, Martin Landau)

The Desert Of The Tartars (Il Deserto dei Tartari)

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Competently filmed and acted and, by all accounts, faithful to the novel, it’s the story itself that hinders Desert Of The Tartars as a piece of cinema.

Emma Slawinski · 2 out of 5
A young army recruit is sent to a remote and mysterious desert outpost.

(Country: Italy, France, West Germany; Year: 1976; Director: Valerio Zurlini; Writer: Jean-Louis Bertucelli, Jean-Louis Bertucelli, André G. Brunelin, Dino Buzzati, Valerio Zurlini; Stars: Jaques Perrin, Philippe Noiret, Max Von Sydow, Giuliano Gemma)

Fedora

A Hollywood producer tries to lure a reclusive actress out of retirement.

(Country: France, West Germany; Year: 1978; Director: Billy Wilder; Writer: Tom Tryon, Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond; Stars: William Holden, Marthe Keller, Hildegard Knef, José Ferrer, Frances Sternhagen, Mario Adorf, Stephen Collins, Henry Fonda, Michael York, Hans Jaray, Gottfried John, Arlene Francis, Jacques Maury, Christine Mueller, Ellen Schwiers)

Goha

A young girl married to an older man falls in love with a young student.

(Country: France, Tunisia; Year: 1958; Director: Jacques Baratier; Writer: Albert Adès, Albert Josipovici, Georges Schéhadé, Georges Schéhadé; Stars: Omar Sharif, Zina Bouzaiade, Lauro Gazzolo, Gabriel Jabbour, Daniel Emilfork, Annie Legrand, Fatna Bent'Lahsen, Hassiba Rochdi, Ahmed Bouleïman, Tahar Bel Hadj, Mohamed Bel Hadj, Mohamed El Medeb, Zohra Faiza, Claudia Cardinale, Mohamed Bouchakour)

La Grande Bouffe (Blow Out, La Grande Abuffata)

Friends head to a villa with the plan of eating themselves to death.

(Country: France, Italy; Year: 1973; Director: Marco Ferreri; Writer: Marco Ferreri, Rafael Azcona, Francis Blanche; Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret, Ugo Tognazzi, Andréa Ferréol, Solange Blondeau, Florence Giorgetti, Michèle Alexandre, Monique Chaumette, Henri Piccoli, Maurice Dorléac, Simon Tchao, Louis Navarre, Bernard Menez, Cordelia Piccoli)

Hiroshima Mon Amour

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Even after many viewings it is difficult to fully grasp the film's historical significance, storytelling innovations and stylistic brilliance.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
A French actress making an anti-war film embarks on an affair with a married man.

(Country: France, Japan; Year: 1959; Director: Alain Resnais; Writer: Marguerite Duras; Stars: Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud, Bernard Fresson)

The Last Detail

Ordered to take a young convict to prison, two Navy officers decide to help him have one last good time.

(Country: US; Year: 1973; Director: Hal Ashby; Writer: Robert Towne, based on the novel by Darryl Ponicsan; Stars: Jack Nicholson, Otis Young, Randy Quaid, Clifton James, Carol Kane, Michael Moriarty, Luana Anders, Kathleen Miller, Nancy Allen, Gerry Salsberg, Don McGovern)

The Last Emperor

The story of the final Emperor of China. Converted to 3D.

(Country: China, Italy, UK, France; Year: 1987; Director: Bernardo Bertolucci; Writer: Mark Peploe, Bernardo Bertolucci, Enzo Ungari, Henry Pu-yi; Stars: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ruocheng Ying, Victor Wong, Dennis Dun, Ryûichi Sakamoto, Maggie Han, Ric Young, Vivian Wu, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Jade Go, Fumihiko Ikeda, Richard Vuu, Tsou Tijger)

The Lonely Wife (Charulata)

A woman neglected by her husband finds herself falling for a younger man.

(Country: India; Year: 1964; Director: Satyajit Ray; Writer: Satyajit Ray, Rabindranath Tagore; Stars: Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Shailen Mukherjee, Tarapada Basu, Gopaldas Bhattacharya, Dilip Bose, Ramesh Chandra Chandra, Sunilkanta Dasgupta, Nilotpal Dey, Bankim Ghosh, Shyamal Ghoshal, Ajit Gupta, Bholanath Koyal, Kamu Mukherjee, Suku Mukherjee)

The Lovely Month Of May (Le Joli Mai)

Snapshot of Paris in May 1962.

(Country: France; Year: 1963; Director: Chris Marker, Pierre Lhomme; Writer: Chris Marker, Catherine Varlin; Stars: Chris Marker, Yves Montand, Simone Signoret)

Lucky Luciano

Study of the infamous mobster.

(Country: US, France, Italy; Year: 1973; Director: Francesco Rosi; Writer: Jerome Chodorov, Tonino Guerra, Lino Iannuzzi, Francesco Rosi, Francesco Rosi; Stars: Gian Maria Volonté, Vincent Gardenia, Silverio Blasi, Charles Cioffi, Larry Gates, Magda Konopka, Dino Curcio, Jacques Monod, Karin Petersen, Edmond O'Brien, Charles Siragusa, Rod Steiger, Pier Maria Pasinetti, Luigi Infantino, Carlo Mazzarella)

Manila In The Claws Of Light (Maynila: Sa mga kuko ng liwanag, The Nail Of Brightness)

A country boy goes to the city in search of his lost love.

(Country: Philippines; Year: 1975; Director: Lino Brocka; Writer: Edgardo Reyes, Clodualdo Del Mundo Jr; Stars: Hilda Koronel, Bembol Roco, Lou Salvador Jr., Joonee Gamboa, Pio III De Castro, Danilo Posadas, Joe Jardy, Spanky Manikan, Edipolo Erosido, Pancho Pelagio, Purita Yap, Josephine Gutierrez, Gina Zegui, Ronnie Magalong, Anna Marie Nicolas)

Opium

Musical comedy recounts the loves of Raymond Radiguet and Jean Cocteau in the early 1920s.

(Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Arielle Dombasle; Writer: Arielle Dombasle, Philippe Eveno, Patrick Mimouni; Stars: Niels Schneider, Arielle Dombasle, Marisa Berenson, Julie Depardieu, Valérie Donzelli, Jérémie Elkaïm, Grégoire Colin, Hélène Fillières, Philippe Katerine, Anna Sigalevitch, Samuel Mercer)

Marking fifty years since the death of Jean Cocteau

Queen Margot (La Reine Margot)

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Not since Eisenstein's imaginative expressionism has a film ravaged tradition and brought the past into focus with such devastating energy.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
Sixteenth century intrigue in the court of the king of France, as a religious war rages and passions run red with blood.

(Country: France/Italy/Germany; Year: 1994; Director: Patrice Chéreau; Writer: Patrice Chéreau, Danièle Thompson, based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas; Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Vincent Perez, Virna Lisi, Dominique Blanc, Pascal Greggory, Claudio Amendola, Miguel Bosé, Asia Argento, Julien Rassam)

The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg (Les Parapluies de Cherbourg)

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What makes the film stand out, apart from the fact that it is a musical, is its reluctance to go all the way with the melodrama.

Nicola Osborne · 4 out of 5
A low-key story of young lovers is turned into a beautiful MGM style musical in this French classic.

(Country: France,; Year: 1964; Director: Jacques Demy; Writer: Jacques Demy; Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuono, Anne Vernon, Narc Michel, Ellen Farmer, Mireille Perry, Harald Wolf)

Visions Of Eight

Documentary about the 1972 Summer Olympics.

(Country: US, West Germany; Year: 1973; Director: Milos Forman, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch, Yuri Ozerov, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, John Schlesinger, Mai Zetterling; Writer: David Hughes, Deliara Ozerowa, Shuntaro Tanikawa)

Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo)

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My pick for the greatest film ever made.

Scott Macdonald · 5 out of 5
A detective becomes obsessed with a beautiful woman who reminds him of someone else.

(Country: US; Year: 1958; Director: Alfred Hitchcock; Writer: Alec Coppel, Samuel A Taylor; Stars: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones, Raymond Bailey, Ellen Corby, Konstantin Shayne, Lee Patrick, Isabel Analla) , Trailer