 Official poster of the 23rd Cannes Film Festival, an original illustration by French artistRené Ferracci.[1] | |
| Opening film | The Things of Life |
|---|---|
| Closing film | Le Bal du Comte d'Orgel |
| Location | Cannes,France |
| Founded | 1946 |
| Awards | Grand Prix: M*A*S*H[2] |
| No. of films | 25 (In Competition) |
| Festival date | 2 May 1970 (1970-05-02) – 16 May 1970 (1970-05-16) |
| Website | festival-cannes |
| Cannes Film Festival | |
The23rdCannes Film Festival took place from 3 to 18 May 1970. Guatemalan author andNobel Prize laureateMiguel Ángel Asturias served as jury president for the main competition.[2]
TheGrand Prix du Festival International du Film, then the fetival's main prize, was awarded toM*A*S*H byRobert Altman.[3]
In this edition, Robert Favre LeBret, the founder of the festival, decided not to include any films from Russia and Japan (their flags were also omitted on theCroisette). He was supposedly tired of the "Slavic spectacles and Japanese samurai flicks.". The Russians took back their juror Sergei Obraztsov (head of Moscow puppet theater) and left the jury panel with only eight members.[4][5]
The festival opened withThe Things of Life byClaude Sautet and closed withLe Bal du Comte d'Orgel byMarc Allégret.[6][7]
The following feature films competed for theGrand Prix du Festival International du Film:[9]
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[9]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Ball of Count Orgel(closing film) | Le Bal du comte d'Orgel | Marc Allégret | France |
| Mictlan o la casa de los que ya no son | Raúl Kamffer | Mexico | |
| The Territory of Others | Le territoire des autres | Gérard Vienne, Jacqueline Lecompte,Michel Fano, François Bel | France |
| They Shoot Horses, Don't They? | Sydney Pollack | United States | |
| Tristana | Luis Buñuel | Spain, France, Italy | |
| The Virgin and the Gypsy | Christopher Miles | United Kingdom | |
| Voyage Chez Les Vivants | Henry Brandt | Switzerland | |
| Woodstock | Michael Wadleigh | United States | |
The following short films competed for thePrix du Jury:[9]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Day With the Boys | Ein Tag mit den Jungen | Volker Schlöndorff | West Germany |
| Comme Larrons En Foire | Edmond Freess | France | |
| The Devil Without a Lady | El diablo sin dama | Eduardo Calcagno | Argentina |
| Et Salammbo? | Jean-Pierre Richard | Tunisia | |
| Gipsy Pentecost (The Feast of St. Sara) | Laurence Boulting | United Kingdom | |
| Kaleidoski | Jacques Ertaud | France | |
| The Other Silence | L'autre silence | Nestor Matsas | Greece |
| Light | Lumière | Paul Cohen | United States |
| The Magic Machines | Bob Curtis | United States | |
| The Deadly Smell | Smrtící vůně | Václav Bedřich | Czechoslovakia |
| The Epitaph | Gurucharan Singh | India | |
| A Time for Memory | Un temps pour la mémoire | Georges Pessis | France |
The following films were screened for the 9thInternational Critics' Week (9e Semaine de la Critique):[10]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camarades | Marin Karmitz | France | |
| Éloge du chiac | Michel Brault | Canada | |
| Kes | Ken Loach | United Kingdom | |
| Mistreatment | Misshandlingen | Lars Lennart Forsberg | Sweden |
| The Siege | O Cerco | António da Cunha Telles | Portugal |
| We Can See It's Not You | On voit bien que c’est pas toi | Christian Zarifian | France |
| Ramparts of Clay | Remparts d’argile | Jean-Louis Bertucelli | France, Algeria |
| The River Schooners | Les Voitures d’eau | Pierre Perrault | Canada |
| Oh, Sun | Soleil Ô | Med Hondo | Mauritania, France |
| The Crows | Vrane | Gordan Mihić, Ljubiša Kozomara | Yugoslavia |
| Warm in the Bud | Rudolph Caringi | United States | |
| Ice | Robert Kramer | United States | |
The following films were screened for the 1970Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):[11]
