Official Selection for 2015 line-up completed with extra titles for Competition, Un Certain Regard, Special Screening and Midnight Screening strands.Click here for the full line-up
The 68th Cannes Film Festival has completed its Official Selection. Headlining the additions are two more Competition titles, taking the number of films in the running for the Palme d’Or up to 19.
The first is Chronic by Mexican director Michel Franco, starring Tim Roth and Bitsie Tulloch (Grimm). The film marks Franco’s English-language debut and centres on a depressed nurse practitioner who assists terminally ill patients and tries to reconnect with the family he abandoned. Wild Bunch handles sales
Franco and Roth decided to work together after meeting at Cannes in 2012, where the film-maker’s previous feature After Lucia won Un Certain Regard and Roth served on the jury.
The Mexican filmmaker was also in the running for Cannes’ Golden Camera in 2009 with his debut feature, Daniel and Ana.
The...
The 68th Cannes Film Festival has completed its Official Selection. Headlining the additions are two more Competition titles, taking the number of films in the running for the Palme d’Or up to 19.
The first is Chronic by Mexican director Michel Franco, starring Tim Roth and Bitsie Tulloch (Grimm). The film marks Franco’s English-language debut and centres on a depressed nurse practitioner who assists terminally ill patients and tries to reconnect with the family he abandoned. Wild Bunch handles sales
Franco and Roth decided to work together after meeting at Cannes in 2012, where the film-maker’s previous feature After Lucia won Un Certain Regard and Roth served on the jury.
The Mexican filmmaker was also in the running for Cannes’ Golden Camera in 2009 with his debut feature, Daniel and Ana.
The...
- 4/23/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Update: Rachel McAdams has joined the cast of Wim Wenders' "Every Thing Will Be Fine," the German director's new 3-D drama also starring James Franco and Charlotte Gainsbourg. McAdams will take the role of Franco's writer character's girlfriend, a role which once had director-actress Sarah Polley attached. Earlier: Principal photography has begun in Montreal on Wim Wenders' latest, "Every Thing Will Be Fine," starring James Franco, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Marie-Josee Croze ("The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"). Like Wenders' sublime Oscar-nominated documentary "Pina," the film will be in 3-D. It centers on a writer whose emotional life collapses following a traumatic car accident. Gian-Piero Ringel, who produced "Pina," will again produce. Cinematographer Benoit Debie, known for his collaborations with director Gaspar Noe ("Irreversible," "Enter the Void"), is the director of photography. Here's the official synopsis:Every Thing Will Be Fine, based on an original script by the...
- 8/22/2013
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
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