 Official poster of the 65th Cannes Film Festival featuring a photo of American actressMarilyn Monroe | |
| Opening film | Moonrise Kingdom |
|---|---|
| Closing film | Thérèse Desqueyroux |
| Location | Cannes,France |
| Founded | 1946 |
| Awards | Palme d'Or: Amour |
| Hosted by | Bérénice Bejo |
| No. of films | 22 (In Competition) |
| Festival date | 16 – 27 May 2012 |
| Website | www |
| Cannes Film Festival | |
The65thCannes Film Festival took place from 16 to 27 May 2012.[1] Italian filmmakerNanni Moretti was the president of the jury for the main competition.[2] Austrian filmmakerMichael Haneke won thePalme d'Or, the festival's top prize, for the drama filmAmour.
The official poster of the festival featuresMarilyn Monroe, to mark the 50th anniversary of her death.[3] French actressBérénice Bejo hosted the opening and closing ceremonies.[4]
The festival opened withMoonrise Kingdom byWes Anderson, and the closed withThérèse Desqueyroux byClaude Miller.[5]
The following people were appointed as the Jury for the feature films of the 2012 Official Selection:[6]
The following independent juries awarded films in the frame of the Critics' Week.
Nespresso Grand Prize
France 4 Visionary Award
Nikon Discovery Award for Short Film
The official selection was announced on 19 April at Grand Hôtel in Paris. Among comments after the announcement, journalists noted the unusually high number of Hollywood films in the line-up, the absence of any female director in the main competition, as well as the absence of competing first-time feature film directors.[12][13] The festival's artistic leader Thierry Frémaux responded that people should not focus only on the competition films: "The selection is an ensemble; you have to consider the whole package."[13]
The following feature films competed for thePalme d'Or:[14][15]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| After the Battle | بعد الموقعة | Yousry Nasrallah | Egypt, France |
| The Angels' Share | Ken Loach | United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Italy | |
| Beyond the Hills | După dealuri | Cristian Mungiu | Romania, France, Belgium |
| Cosmopolis | David Cronenberg | Canada, France, Italy, Portugal | |
| Holy Motors | Leos Carax | France, Germany | |
| The Hunt | Jagten | Thomas Vinterberg | Denmark, Sweden |
| In Another Country | 다른 나라에서 | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
| In the Fog | В тумане | Sergei Loznitsa | Belarus, Germany, Russia, Latvia, Netherlands, United States |
| Killing Them Softly | Andrew Dominik | United States | |
| Lawless | John Hillcoat | ||
| Like Someone in Love | ライク・サムワン・イン・ラブ | Abbas Kiarostami | France, Japan |
| Amour | Michael Haneke | France, Germany, Austria | |
| Moonrise Kingdom(opening film) | Wes Anderson | United States | |
| Mud | Jeff Nichols | ||
| On the Road | Sur la route | Walter Salles | France, Brazil, United Kingdom, United States, Mexico, Canada |
| The Paperboy | Lee Daniels | United States | |
| Paradise: Love | Paradies: Liebe | Ulrich Seidl | Austria, Germany, France |
| Post Tenebras Lux | Carlos Reygadas | Mexico, France, Germany, Netherlands | |
| Reality | Matteo Garrone | Italy, France | |
| Rust and Bone | De rouille et d'os | Jacques Audiard | France, Belgium |
| The Taste of Money | 돈의 맛 | Im Sang-soo | South Korea |
| You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet! | Vous n'avez encore rien vu | Alain Resnais | France, Germany |
The following films were screened in theUn Certain Regard section:[14]
The following films were screened out of competition:[14]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cruel Summer(short film) | Kanye West | United States, Qatar | |
| Hemingway & Gellhorn | Philip Kaufman | United States | |
| Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted | Eric Darnell,Tom McGrath,Conrad Vernon | ||
| Me and You | Io e te | Bernardo Bertolucci | Italy |
| Thérèse Desqueyroux(closing film) | Claude Miller | France | |
| Midnight Screenings | |||
| Dracula 3D | Dario Argento | Italy, France, Spain | |
| For Love's Sake | 愛と誠 | Takashi Miike | Japan |
| Maniac | Franck Khalfoun | United States, France | |
| The Sapphires(CdO) | Wayne Blair | Australia | |
| 65th Anniversary | |||
| Film Anniversary: A Special Day | Le Film anniversaire: Une journée particulière - Histoire(s) de festival N°4 | Gilles Jacob and Samuel Faure | France |
The following films were screened in the Special Screenings section:[14]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Central Park Five | Ken Burns,Sarah Burns and David McMahon | United States | |
| Les invisibles | Sébastien Lifshitz | France | |
| Journal de France | Claudine Nougaret andRaymond Depardon | ||
| Mekong Hotel | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | ||
| The Music According to Antonio Carlos Jobim | A Música Segundo Tom Jobim | Nelson Pereira dos Santos and Dora Jobim | |
| The Oath of Tobruk | Le serment de Tobrouk | Bernard-Henri Lévy and Marc Roussel | |
| Polluting Paradise | Der Müll im Garten Eden | Fatih Akın | Germany |
| The Resistance | Peng Zhang Li | China, United States | |
| Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir | Laurent Bouzereau | United Kingdom, Italy, Germany | |
| Trashed | Candida Brady | United States | |
| Villegas(CdO) | Gonzalo Tobal | Argentina, Netherlands, France | |
TheCinéfondation section focuses on films made by students at film schools. The following entries were selected, out of more than 1,700 submissions from 320 different schools:[17]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | School |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abigail | Matthew James Reilly | NYU, United States | |
| The Ballad of Finn + Yeti | Meryl O'Connor | UCLA, United States | |
| The Barber | Riyoushi | Shoichi Akino | Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan |
| Behind Me Olive Trees | Derrière moi les oliviers | Pascale Abou Jamra | ALBA, Lebanon |
| The Camp in Răzoare | Tabăra din Răzoare | Cristi Iftime | UNATC, Romania |
| Could See a Puma | Pude ver un puma | Eduardo Williams | UCINE, Argentina |
| Dog Leash | Resen | Eti Tsicko | TAU, Israel |
| Head over Heels | Timothy Reckart | NFTS, United Kingdom | |
| The Hosts | Los anfitriones | Miguel Angel Moulet | EICTV, Cuba |
| Land | Terra | Piero Messina | CSC, Italy |
| Matteus | Leni Huyghe | Sint-Lukas Brussels, Belgium | |
| The Raptures | Les Ravissements | Arthur Cahn | La Fémis, France |
| The Road To | Doroga na | Taisia Igumentseva | VGIK, Russia |
| Slug Invasion | Morten Helgeland | The Animation Workshop, Denmark | |
| Tambylles | Michal Hogenauer | FAMU, Czech Republic | |
Out of 4,500 submissions, the following films were selected for the short film competition:[17]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Chair | Grainger David | United States | |
| Cockaigne | Emilie Verhamme | Belgium | |
| Gasp | Eicke Bettinga | Germany | |
| Herd Leader | Chef de meute | Chloé Robichaud | Canada |
| My Holy Glance | Mi Santa Mirada | Alvaro Aponte-Centeno | Puerto Rico |
| Night Shift | Zia Mandivwalla | New Zealand | |
| Silent | Sessiz-Bêdeng | L. Rezan Yesilbas | Turkey |
| This Way Before Me | Ce Chemin Devant Moi | Mohamed Bourokba | France |
| Waiting for P.O. Box | Falastein, sandouk al intezar lil burtuqal | Bassam Chekhes | Syria |
| Yardbird | Michael Spiccia | Australia | |
The following films were screened in the Cannes Classics section.[18][19] The Hungarian "montage film"Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen, directed byGyörgy Pálfi, was selected as the closing film for the Cannes Classics section.[18][20][21][22]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Restored Prints | |||
| An All-Colored Vaudeville Show (1935) | Roy Mack | United States | |
| The Ballad of Narayama (1958) | 楢山節考 | Keisuke Kinoshita | Japan |
| Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) | Cléo de 5 à 7 | Agnès Varda | France, Italy |
| A Great Day in Harlem (1994) | Jean Bach | United States | |
| The Great Spy Chase (1964) | Les Barbouzes | Georges Lautner | France, Italy |
| Jammin' the Blues (1944)(short) | Gjon Mili | United States | |
| Jaws (1975) | Steven Spielberg | ||
| Journey to Italy (1954) | Viaggio in Italia | Roberto Rossellini | Italy, France |
| Lawrence of Arabia (1962) | David Lean | United Kingdom | |
| Once Upon a Time in America (1984) | C'era una volta in America | Sergio Leone | Italy, United States |
| The Ring (1927) | Alfred Hitchcock | United Kingdom | |
| Runaway Train (1985) | Andrei Konchalovsky | United States | |
| Tess (1979) | Roman Polanski | France, United Kingdom | |
| Twenty Years Later (1984) | Cabra Marcado para Morrer | Eduardo Coutinho | Brazil |
| Xica (1976) | Xica da Silva | Carlos Diegues | |
| World Cinema Foundation | |||
| After the Curfew (1954) | Lewat Djam Malam | Usmar Ismail | Indonesia |
| Kalpana (1954) | कल्पना | Uday Shankar | India |
| Documentaries about Cinema | |||
| Claude M Loves the Cinema | Claude Miller, cinéaste de l'intime | Emmanuel Barnault | France |
| Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen | Final Cut: Hölgyeim és uraim | György Pálfi | Hungary |
| Me and My Dad | Katrine Boorman | United Kingdom, Ireland | |
| Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis | Gregg Barson | United States | |
| Woody Allen: A Documentary | Robert Weide | ||
The Cinéma de la Plage is a part of the Official Selection of the festival. The outdoors screenings at the beach cinema of Cannes are open to the public.[23]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Casino Royale (2006) | Martin Campbell | United Kingdom, United States, Germany, Czech Republic | |
| Diamonds Are Forever (1971) | Guy Hamilton | United Kingdom | |
| Dr. No (1962) | Terence Young | ||
| From Russia with Love (1963) | Terence Young | ||
| The Joker (1960) | Le farceur | Philippe de Broca | France |
| On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) | Peter Hunt | United Kingdom | |
| Project A (1982) | A計劃 | Jackie Chan | Hong Kong |
| Red Tails (2012) | Anthony Hemingway | United States | |
The line-up for theCritics' Week was announced on 23 April at the section's website. The feature competition consists entirely of directorial debuts, something the section's artistic director Charles Tesson stressed was not intentional, but only the way it turned out when the submissions had been judged by quality. The following films were selected:[24]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| In Competition | |||
| Beyond the Walls(CdO) | Hors les murs | David Lambert | Belgium, Canada, France |
| God's Neighbors(CdO) | המשגיחים | Meni Yaesh | Israel, France |
| Here and There(CdO) | Aquí y allá | Antonio Méndez Esparza | Spain, United States, Mexico |
| In a Rush(CdO) | Au galop | Louis-Do de Lencquesaing | France |
| Peddlers(CdO) | Halahal | Vasan Bala | India |
| Sofia's Last Ambulance(CdO) | Ilian Metev | Germany, Croatia, Bulgaria | |
| The Wild Ones(CdO) | Los Salvajes | Alejandro Fadel | Argentina |
| Special Screenings | |||
| Augustine | Alice Winocour | France | |
| Broken | Rufus Norris | United Kingdom | |
| Maddened by His Absence | J'enrage de son absence | Sandrine Bonnaire | France, Luxembourg, Belgium |
| Short Films | |||
| Circle Line | 순환선 | Shin Su-won | South Korea |
| The Dickslap | La Bifle | Jean-Baptiste Saurel | France |
| Doppelgänger | O Duplo | Juliana Rojas | Brazil |
| Family Dinner | Stefan Constantinescu | Sweden | |
| Hazara | Shay Levi | Israel | |
| Horizon | Orizont | Paul Negoescu | Romania |
| It's Not a Cowboy Movie | Ce n'est pas un film de cow-boys | Benjamin Parent | France |
| Red River, Song Hong | Fleuve rouge, Song Hong | Stéphanie Lansaque & François Leroy | |
| A Sunday Morning | Un dimanche matin | Damien Manivel | |
| Yeguas y cotorras | Natalia Garagiola | Argentina | |
The line-up for theDirectors' Fortnight was announced at a press conference on 24 April.[25] The following films were selected:[26]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Pablo Stoll | Uruguay, Germany, Argentina | |
| Alyah(CdO) | Elie Wajeman | France | |
| Camille Rewinds | Camille redouble | Noémie Lvovsky | |
| Clandestine Childhood | Infancia clandestina | Benjamin Ávila | Argentina, Spain, Brazil |
| Dangerous Liaisons | 危險關係 | Hur Jin-ho | China, South Korea |
| Dream and Silence | Sueño y silencio | Jaime Rosales | Spain, France |
| Ernest & Celestine | Ernest et Célestine | Stéphane Aubier,Vincent Patar andBenjamin Renner | France, Belgium, Luxembourg |
| Fogo | Yulene Olaizola | Mexico, Canada | |
| Gangs of Wasseypur | Anurag Kashyap | India | |
| Granny's Funeral | Adieu Berthe, l'enterrement de mémé | Bruno Podalydès | France |
| Hold Back(CdO) | Rengaine | Rachid Djaïdani | |
| The King of Pigs(CdO) | 돼지의 왕 | Yeon Sang-ho | South Korea |
| Night Across the Street | La noche de enfrente | Raúl Ruiz | France, Chile |
| No | Pablo Larraín | Chile, United States | |
| Opération Libertad | Nicolas Wadimoff | Switzerland, France | |
| The Repentant | التائب | Merzak Allouache | Algeria |
| Room 237(CdO) | Rodney Ascher | United States | |
| Sightseers | Ben Wheatley | United Kingdom | |
| The Towrope(CdO) | La Sirga | William Vega | Colombia, France, Mexico |
| The We and the I | Michel Gondry | United States | |
| Yek Khanévadéh-e Mohtaram(CdO) | Massoud Bakhshi | Iran | |
| Short Films | |||
| The Curse | Fyzal Boulifa | United Kingdom, Morocco | |
| Drawn from Memory | Portret z pamięci | Marcin Bortkiewicz | Poland |
| Enraged Pigs | Porcos Raivosos | Leonardo Sette and Isabel Penoni | Brazil |
| Königsberg | Philipp Mayrhofer | France | |
| The Living Also Cry | Os Vivos Tambem Choram | Basil da Cunha | Switzerland, Portugal |
| The Living Dead | Os mortos-vivos | Anita Rocha da Silveira | Brazil |
| Rodri | Franco Lolli | France | |
| Tram | Michaela Pavlátová | France, Czech Republic | |
| With Jeff | Avec Jeff, à moto | Marie-Ève Juste | Canada |
| Wrong Cops | Quentin Dupieux | France | |
ThePalme d'Or was won by the French-language filmAmour directed byMichael Haneke. Haneke previously won the award forThe White Ribbon in2009.[27]Love tells the story of an elderly couple preparing for death.[28] During his acceptance speech, the director said "A very, very big thanks to my actors who have made this film. It's their film. They are the essence of this film."[27] Moretti said that none of the winners had been selected unanimously, and described such an outcome as "a middle ground that would have pleased no one". He revealed thatHoly Motors,Paradise: Love andPost Tenebras Lux were the entries that most had divided the jury.[29]
The following films and people received the 2012 Official selection awards:[30][31]
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