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SCREENINGS Wednesday 15 May 2019
DAY 2

FESTIVAL

Wednesday 15 May

BULL (Premiere)
FESTIVAL Sales: WTFilms (32 Rue Des Serbes (B), 6th USA, 101’, Drama. 13:30
Floor)
Section: Directors’ Fortnight Théâtre Claude Debussy (Press Screening)
Director: Quentin Dupieux Sales: Film Constellation (Dauphin Entrance, THE DEAD DON’T DIE (Premiere)
8:30 Casting: Jean Dujardin, Adèle Haenel 2nd Floor) USA, 103’, Horror.
Grand Théâtre Lumière
Synopsis: A man leaves everything behind to
Section: Un Certain Regard
buy the jacket of his dreams. But his obsession Director: Annie Silverstein Sales: Focus Features (USA)
LITIGANTE [Opening] (Premiere) with his 100% deerskin jacket will push him Synopsis: In a near-abandoned subdivision Section: In competition
France, Colombia, 95’, Drama. into a bloody spiral... west of Houston, a wayward teen runs Director: Jim Jarmusch
Miramar Next screening: 16 May, 11:30, Olympia 6 headlong into her equally willful and Casting: Bill Murray, Chloë Sevigny, Adam
Driver, Selena Gomez, Tilda Swinton, Caleb
Sales: Kinology (20bis Rue Des Serbes) unforgiving neighbour, an aging bullfighter Landry Jones, Steve Buscemi
Section: Critics’ Week 9:00 who’s seen his best days in the arena; it’s a Synopsis: The peaceful town of Centerville
Director: Franco Lolli collision that will change them both. finds itself battling a zombie horde as the dead
Casting: Carolina Sanin, Leticia Gomez, Next screening: 16 May, 14:00, Bazin start rising from their graves.
Antonio Martinez, Vladimir Durán THE DEAD DON’T DIE (Premiere)
Synopsis: In Bogota, Silvia, a single mum and USA, 103’, Horror.
a lawyer, is implicated in a corruption scandal. Grand Théâtre Lumière THE DEAD DON’T DIE (Premiere) 14:00
A deeper anxiety weighs on her as well. Leticia, Sales: Focus Features (USA) USA, 103’, Horror.
her mother, is seriously ill. Upon having to face Section: In competition Salle Du 60e
her inevitable passing, Silvia embarks on a love Director: Jim Jarmusch Sales: Focus Features (USA) BULL (Premiere)
story for the first time in years. Casting: Bill Murray, Chloë Sevigny, Adam Section: Day after screenings (In competition) USA, 101’, Drama.
Next screening: 16 May, 08:30, Bunuel Director: Jim Jarmusch Théâtre Claude Debussy (Press Screening)
Driver, Selena Gomez, Tilda Swinton, Caleb Casting: Bill Murray, Chloë Sevigny, Adam Sales: Film Constellation (Dauphin Entrance,
Landry Jones, Steve Buscemi Driver, Selena Gomez, Tilda Swinton, Caleb 2nd Floor)
8:45 Synopsis: The peaceful town of Centerville Landry Jones, Steve Buscemi Section: Un Certain Regard
finds itself battling a zombie horde as the dead Synopsis: The peaceful town of Centerville Director: Annie Silverstein
start rising from their graves. finds itself battling a zombie horde as the dead Synopsis: In a near-abandoned subdivision
DEERSKIN (Premiere) west of Houston, a wayward teen runs
France, 100’, Black comedy. start rising from their graves. headlong into her equally willful and
Théâtre Croisette 11:00 unforgiving neighbour, an aging bullfighter
11:15 who’s seen his best days in the arena; it’s a
collision that will change them both.
Next screening: 16 May, 14:00, Bazin
THE THING (Premiere)
USA, 109’, Horror.
Théâtre Croisette THE WHITE SNAKE ENCHANTRESS
Sales: Quinzaine Des Realisateurs / Directors’ (Premiere)
Fortnight Japan, 78’, Animation.
Section: Directors’ Fortnight (Carrosse d’or) Salle Buñuel
Director: John Carpenter Sales: Cannes Classics
Synopsis: A research team in Antarctica is Section: Cannes Classics
hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes Director: Taiji Yabushita
the appearance of its victims. Casting: Zhe Zhang, Tianxiang Yang
Synopsis: Presented by Toei Animation
Company, Ltd. and National Archive of Japan.
11:30 The project celebrates the 100th anniversary for
the birth of Japan animation and 60th
anniversary for the original theatrical release in
THE UNKNOWN SAINT (Premiere) 1958. 4K scan and restoration from the original
Morocco, France, 100’, Comedy. negative, 35mm print, tape materials, and
Miramar animation cels by Toei Lab Tech Co. Ltd. and
Sales: The Match Factory (25 La Croisette) +33 Toei digital center are carried out. The restored
6 43 63 46 73 data is stored in 2K.
Section: Critics’ Week Japan’s first world-standard, full-colour
animated feature film was produced by
Director: Aljem Alaa Eddine Toei Doga Studio (now Toei Animation), a
Casting: Younes Bouab, Salah Bensalah, company that was drawing considerable
Bouchaib Essamak, Mohamed Naimane, Anas attention at the time not only in Japan, but also
El Baz, Hassan Ben Bdida, Abdelghani Kitab, around the world. The movie was two years in
Ahmed Yarziz the making, and employed state-of-the-art
Synopsis: Moments before his capture by technology and a team of supremely talented
police, a thief digs a grave to hide a bag of staff, under the personal supervision of Toei
money. Released from prison years later he president Hiroshi Okawa.
Its narrative is inspired by the famous Chinese
returns to retrieve the bag, only to find a shrine folk tale Legend of the White Snake, a story of
to an Unknown Saint built directly over his loot, true love between Bai Niang, a white serpent
and a brand new village constructed all around who takes human form, and a young man
it. named Xu Xian.

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