2009 Cannes Film Festival
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The 62nd annual Cannes Film Festival was held from 13 May – 24 May 2009. French actress Isabelle Huppert was the President of the Jury.[1] It was announced on 19 March 2009, that Pixar's film Up would open the festival.[2] This marked the first time that an animated film or a film in 3-D opened the festival.
American director Clint Eastwood became the second recipient of the Honorary Palme d'Or, an award given to directors who had established a significant body of work without ever winning a competitive Palme d'Or.[3]
Contents
Festival line-up
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opener | Up * | Pete Docter and Bob Peterson | United States | |
| Closer | Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky | Jan Kounen | France | |
- * First animated film ever to open the festival.
Films in competition
The following films competed for the Palme d'Or.[4]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Antichrist | Lars von Trier | Denmark | |
| Bright Star | Jane Campion | United Kingdom | |
| Broken Embraces | Los abrazos rotos | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| Butchered | Kinatay | Brillante Mendoza | Philippines |
| Enter the Void | Soudain le vide | Gaspar Noé | France |
| Face | Visage | Tsai Ming-liang | Taiwan |
| Fish Tank | Andrea Arnold | United Kingdom | |
| Inglourious Basterds | Quentin Tarantino | United States | |
| In the Beginning | À l'origine | Xavier Giannoli | France |
| Looking for Eric | Ken Loach | United Kingdom | |
| Map of the Sounds of Tokyo | Mapa de los sonidos de Tokyo | Isabel Coixet | Spain |
| A Prophet | Un prophète | Jacques Audiard | France |
| Spring Fever | 春风沉醉的晚上 Chūn fēng chén zuì de wǎn shàng | Lou Ye | China |
| Taking Woodstock | Ang Lee | United States | |
| Thirst | 박쥐 Bakjwi | Park Chan-wook | South Korea |
| The Time That Remains | الزمن الباقي | Elia Suleiman | Palestine |
| Wild Grass | Les herbes folles | Alain Resnais | France |
| Vincere | Marco Bellocchio | Italy | |
| Vengeance | 復仇 | Johnnie To | Hong Kong |
| The White Ribbon | Das weiße Band | Michael Haneke | Austria |
Un Certain Regard
The following films competed in the Un Certain Regard section:[5]
Films out of competition
The following films were shown out of competition:[6]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agora | Alejandro Amenábar | Spain | |
| The Army of Crime | L'armée du crime | Robert Guédiguian | France |
| Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky | Jan Kounen | France | |
| Don't Look Back | Ne te retourne pas | Marina de Van | France |
| Drag Me to Hell | Sam Raimi | United States | |
| The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus | Terry Gilliam | United Kingdom | |
| A Town Called Panic | Panique au village | Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar | Belgium, France, Luxembourg |
| Up | Pete Docter | United States |
Special screenings
The following films were given a special screening:[7]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashes and Blood | Cendres et sang | Fanny Ardant | France |
| Jaffa | Keren Yedaya | Israel | |
| The Thorn in the Heart | L'épine dans le coeur | Michel Gondry | France |
| Manila | Adolfo Alix, Jr., Raya Martin | Philippines | |
| Tell Me Who You Are | Min Ye | Souleymane Cissé | Mali |
| My Neighbor, My Killer | Mon voisin, mon tueur | Anne Aghion | France |
| The Eye of the Storm | No Meu Lugar | Eduardo Valente | Brazil |
| Petition | Zhao Liang | China | |
| Group Portrait With Kids and Motorcycles | Portrait de Groupe Avec Enfants et Motocyclettes | Pierre-William Glenn | France |
| A Brand New Life | 여행자 (Yeo-haeng-ja), Une vie toute neuve |
Ounie Lecomte | South Korea |
Cannes Classics
The Festival uses Cannes Classics to place the spotlight on rediscovered or restored masterworks from the past, or ones that have been re-released in theatres or on DVD.[8]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Red Shoes (1948) | The Red Shoes | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | United Kingdom |
| A Brighter Summer Day (1991) | Gu ling jie shao nian sha ren shi jian | Edward Yang | Taiwan |
| The Night of Counting the Years (1969) | Al-Momia | Shadi Abdel Salam | Egypt |
| The Wave (1936) | Redes | Emilio Gómez Muriel and Fred Zinnemann | Mexico |
| Images from the Playground (2009) | Bilder från lekstugan | Stig Björkman | Sweden |
| Accident (1967) | Accident | Joseph Losey | United Kingdom |
| Two of the New Wave (2009) | Deux de la Vague | Emmanuel Laurent | France |
| Pietro Germi - The Good, the Beautiful and the Brave (2009) | Pietro Germi - Il bravo, il bello, il cattivo | Claudio Bondi | Italy |
| Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno (2009) | Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno | Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea | France |
| God Does Not Believe in Us Any More (1982) | An uns glaubt Gott nicht mehr | Axel Corti | Austria, Germany |
| Once Upon a Time... the Revolution (1971) | Giù la testa | Sergio Leone | Italy |
| The Adventure (1960) | L'Avventura | Michelangelo Antonioni | France, Italy |
| The Housemaid (1960) | 하녀 | Kim Ki-young | South Korea |
| The 400 Blows (1959) | Les quatre cents coups | François Truffaut | France |
| Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953) | Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot | Jacques Tati | France |
| Eyes Without a Face (1960) | Les yeux sans visage | Georges Franju | France |
| Far from Vietnam (1967) | Loin du Vietnam | Chris Marker, Joris Ivens, Claude Lelouch, Jean-Luc Godard, William Klein, Agnès Varda and Alain Resnais | France |
| Pierrot le fou (1965) | Pierrot le fou | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
| The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1966) | Signore & signori | Pietro Germi | Italy |
| The Molly Maguires (1970) | The Molly Maguires | Martin Ritt | United States |
| Victim (1961) | Victim | Basil Dearden | United Kingdom |
| Wake in Fright (1971) | Wake in Fright | Ted Kotcheff | Australia |
Cinéfondation
The following films competed in the Cinéfondation section:[9]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Noamir Castéra | Belgium | |
| Bába | Zuzana Kirchnerová | Czech Republic | |
| By the Grace of God | Ralitza Petrova | United Kingdom | |
| Chapa | Thiago Ricarte | Brazil | |
| Diploma | Yaelle Kayam | Israel | |
| The Boxer | El boxeador | Juan Ignacio Pollio | Argentina |
| Goodbye | Fang Song | China | |
| Gutter | Dan Ransom Day | United States | |
| The Naturalist | Il Naturalista | Giulia Barbera | Italy |
| Kasia | Elisabet Llado | Belgium | |
| The Setback | Le Contretemps | Dominique Baumard | France |
| Significant Others | Malzonkowie | Dara Van Dusen | Poland |
| Don't Step Out of the House | 남매의 집 Nammae Ui Jip | Jo Sung-hee | South Korea |
| Segal | Yuval Shani | Israel | |
| The Sylpphid | Sylfidden | Dorte Bengtson | Denmark |
| The Horn | 뿔 Bbul | Yim Kyung-dong | South Korea |
| Traverser | Hugo Frassetto | France |
Short films
The following films competed for the Palme d'Or du court métrage:[10]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| After Tomorrow | Emma Sullivan | United Kingdom | |
| Arena | João Salaviza | Portugal | |
| Ciao mama | Ciao mama | Goran Odvorcic | Croatia |
| Silence | Klusums | Laila Pakalniņa | Latvia |
| The Man in the Blue Gordini | L'Homme À la Gordini | Jean-Christophe Lie | France |
| Lars and Peter | Lars og Peter | Daniel Borgman | Denmark |
| Missing | Mizzen | Joachim de Vries | Netherlands |
| Worstward Ho | Rumbo a Peor | Àlex Brendemühl | Spain |
| The Six Dollar Fifty Man | Mark Albiston, Louis Sutherland | New Zealand |
Juries
International competition
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Cinéfondation and short films
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Un Certain Regard
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Awards
The winners of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival were:[15][16]
- Palme d'Or – Das weiße Band by Michael Haneke[17]
- Grand Prix – Un prophète by Jacques Audiard[17]
- Prix de la mise en scène – Brillante Mendoza for Kinatay[17]
- Prix du Jury[17]
- Prix du scénario – Chūn fēng chén zuì de wǎn shàng by Lou Ye[17]
- Prix d'interprétation féminine – Charlotte Gainsbourg for Antichrist[17]
- Prix d'interprétation masculine – Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds[17]
- Lifetime Achievement Award for his work – Alain Resnais[17]
- Palme d'Or du court métrage Arena by João Salaviza[17]
- Short Film Special Distinction – The Six Dollar Fifty Man by Louis Sutherland[17]
- Prix Un Certain Regard – Kynodontas by Yorgos Lanthimos[18]
- Un Certain Regard – Jury Prize – Politist, Adjectiv by Corneliu Porumboiu[18]
- Un Certain Regard – Special Jury Prize[18]
- Cinéfondation[19]
- 1st Prize - Bába by Zuzana Kirchnerová
- 2nd Prize - Goodbye by Fang Song
- 3rd Prize - Diploma by Yaelle Kayam and Nammae Ui Jip by Jo Sung-hee
- Caméra d'Or - Samson and Delilah by Warwick Thornton[17][20][21]
- Caméra d'Or - Special Distinction - Ajami by Scandar Copti[20]
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