The24thCannes Film Festival took place from 12 to 27 May 1971. French actressMichèle Morgan served as jury president for the main competition.[4][5] TheGrand Prix du Festival International du Film, then the fetival's main prize, was awarded toThe Go-Between byJoseph Losey.[6]
This edition paid tribute toCharlie Chaplin and honored him with the title ofCommander of the national order of the Legion of Honor.[7][8]
The festival opened withGimme Shelter byDavid Maysles,Albert Maysles andCharlotte Zwerin, and closed withThe Married Couple of the Year Two byJean-Paul Rappeneau.[9]
Short Films Competition
[edit]- Véra Volmane, Franch journalist - Jury President
- Charles Duvanel, Swiss
- Etienne Novella, Franch
The following feature films competed for theGrand Prix du Festival International du Film:[3]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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| Apokal | Paul Anczykowski | West Germany |
| Between Miracles | Per grazia ricevuta | Nino Manfredi | Italy |
| The Boat on the Grass | Le Bateau sur l'herbe | Gérard Brach | France |
| Death in Venice | Morte a Venezia | Luchino Visconti | Italy, France |
| Drive, He Said | Jack Nicholson | United States |
| Family Life | Życie rodzinne | Krzysztof Zanussi | Poland |
| The Flight | Бег | Aleksandr Alov andVladimir Naumov | Soviet Union |
| The Go-Between | Joseph Losey | United Kingdom |
| Goya, a Story of Solitude | Goya, historia de una soledad | Nino Quevedo | Spain |
| Joe Hill | Bo Widerberg | Sweden, United States |
| Johnny Got His Gun | Dalton Trumbo | United States |
| Lady Caliph | La Califfa | Alberto Bevilacqua | France, Italy |
| Loot | Silvio Narizzano | United Kingdom |
| Love | Szerelem | Károly Makk | Hungary |
| The Married Couple of the Year Two(closing film) | Les mariés de l'an II | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | France, Italy, Romania |
| Mira | Fons Rademakers | Netherlands, Belgium |
| Murmur of the Heart | Le souffle au cœur | Louis Malle | France, Italy, West Germany |
| The Panic in Needle Park | Jerry Schatzberg | United States |
| Pindorama | Arnaldo Jabor | Brazil |
| Raphael, or The Debauched One | Raphaël ou le débauché | Michel Deville | France |
| Sacco & Vanzetti | Sacco e Vanzetti | Giuliano Montaldo | Italy, France |
| Sick Animals | Animale bolnave | Nicolae Breban | Romania |
| A Soul to Devils | 闇の中の魑魅魍魎 | Kō Nakahira | Japan |
| Taking Off | Miloš Forman | United States |
| Wake in Fright | Outback | Ted Kotcheff | Australia, United Kingdom, United States |
| Walkabout | Nicolas Roeg | United Kingdom, Australia, United States |
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[3]
Short Films Competition
[edit]The following short films competed for theShort Film Palme d'Or:[3]
International Critics' Week
[edit]The following feature films were screened for the 10thInternational Critics' Week (10e Semaine de la Critique):[11]
Directors' Fortnight
[edit]The following films were screened for the 1971Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):[12]
- Acadia, Acadia (L'Acadie, L'Acadie?!?) byMichel Brault andPierre Perrault (Canada)
- Are You Afraid? (Er i bange?) (doc.) byHenning Carlsen (Denmark)
- Badou Boy byDjibril Diop Mambety (Senegal)
- Bang Bang by Andréa Tonacci (Brazil)
- Birds, Orphans and Fools (Vtáčkovia, siroty a blázni) byJuraj Jakubisko (France, Czechoslovakia)
- Brother Carl bySusan Sontag (Sweden)
- The Ceremony (Gishiki) byNagisa Oshima (Japan)
- Cleopatra byMichel Auder (United States)
- The Cow (Gāv) byDariush Mehrjui (Iran)
- Cuadecuc, vampir byPere Portabella (Spain)
- Don't Deliver Us from Evil (Mais ne nous délivrez pas du mal) byJoël Séria (France)
- Du Cote D'Orouet byJacques Rozier (France)
- Dziura w ziemi byAndrzej Kondratiuk (Poland)
- Agnus dei (Égi bárány) byMiklós Jancsó (Hungary)
- Equinox (Equinozio) byMaurizio Ponzi (Italy)
- A Fable byAl Freeman Jr. (United States)
- Fata Morgana byWerner Herzog (West Germany)
- Festival panafricain d'Alger 1969 (doc.) byWilliam Klein (Algeria)
- La fin des Pyrénées by Jean-Pierre Lajournade (France)
- Four Nights of a Dreamer (Quatre nuits d'un rêveur) byRobert Bresson (France)
- Goin' Down the Road byDonald Shebib (Canada)
- How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (Como era gostoso o meu francês) byNelson Pereira Dos Santos (Brazil)
- It Is Necessary to Be Among the Peoples of the World to Know Them (Faut aller parmi l'monde pour le savoir) byFernand Dansereau (Canada)
- Lea in Winter (Léa l'hiver) by Marc Monnet (France)
- Lenz [de] byGeorge Moorse (West Germany)
- The Machine by A. Shermann, J. Rozenberg (Switzerland)
- Le Maître du temps (doc.) byJean-Daniel Pollet (France)
- Makin' It bySimon Hartog (United Kingdom)
- Mare's Tail by David Larcher (United Kingdom)
- Mathias Kneissl byReinhard Hauff (West Germany)
- México, la revolución congelada byRaymundo Gleyzer (Argentina)
- O Capitão Bandeira Contra o Dr. Moura Brasil (Moi, Schizo) byAntônio Calmon (Brazil)
- Ni vainqueurs, ni vaincus by A. Cabado, N. Spoliansky (Argentina)
- Of Gods and the Undead (Os Deuses e os Mortos) byRuy Guerra (Brazil)
- The Past That Lives by Philo Bregstein (Netherlands)
- Prea mic pentru un razboi atît de mare byRadu Gabrea (Romania)
- Puntos suspensivos o Esperando a los bárbaros byEdgardo Cozarinsky (Argentina)
- Rape (Voldtekt) byAnja Breien (Norway)
- The Salamander (La salamandre) byAlain Tanner (Switzerland, France)
- Sex Jack (Seikozu) byKōji Wakamatsu (Japan)
- Staféta byAndrás Kovács (Hungary)
- The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach (Der plötzliche Reichtum der armen Leute von Kombach) byVolker Schlöndorff (West Germany)
- Los testigos by Charles Elsesser (Chile)
- Those Damned Savages (Les maudits sauvages) byJean Pierre Lefebvre (Canada)
- THX 1138 byGeorge Lucas (United States)
- Tokyo senso sengo hiwa byNagisa Oshima (Japan)
- Umut byYılmaz Güney (Turkey)
- Valparaiso, Valparaiso byPascal Aubier (France)
- Voto más fusil by Helvio Soto (Chile)
- W.R. - Misterije organizma byDušan Makavejev (Yugoslavia)
- Wanda byBarbara Loden (United States)
- Apotheosis byJohn Lennon,Yoko Ono (United Kingdom)
- Cannes, 70... by Jean-Paul Jaud (France)
- Essai à la mille byJean-Claude Labrecque (Canada)
- Estado de sitio byJaime Chávarri (Spain)
- Grumes by Jean-Pierre Bonneau (France)
- Habitude byDan Wolman (Israel)
- La belleza byArturo Ripstein (Mexico)
- La Pierre qui flotte byJean-Jacques Andrien (Belgium)
- Le Cri by Paul Dopff (France)
- Le Vampire de la Cinémathèque byRoland Lethem (Belgium)
- Le voyage du Lieutenant Le Bihan byLászló Szabó (France)
- Les bulles du cardinal by Ody Roos (Luxembourg)
- Meatdaze by Jeff Keen (United Kingdom)
- Mégalodrame by Alain Colas (France)
- Moment byStephen Dwoskin (United Kingdom)
- Monangambeee bySarah Maldoror (Angola)
- Mortem by Adam Schmedes (Denmark)
- Okasareta hakui byKōji Wakamatsu (Japan)
- Please Don't Stand On My Sunshine by Ned McCann (Australia)
- R.S.V.P. by W. Pinkston, J. Mason V. (United States)
- Rosée Du Matin byJean Dasque (France)
- Sex byDavid Avidan (Israel)
- Sur les traces de Baal by Abdellatif Ben Ammar (Tunisia)
- Underground Again by Laure Guggenheim (France)
- Venceremos by Pedro Chaskel (Chile)
- Viva Cariri by Geraldo Sarno (Brazil)
Michèle Morgan, Jury President
Joseph Losey, Palme d'Or winnerShort Films Competition
[edit]- Prix spécial du Jury:Star Spangled Banner by Roger Flint
- Special Mention:
- Stuiter by Jan Oonk
- Une Statuette by Carlos Vilardebó
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