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DAY 8
Tuesday 21 May 2019

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Synopsis: Two sisters (who are not sister’s), Alesi, Fernanda Candido, Nicola Cali, Luigi Lo BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI (Premiere) grandma’s place to compose his first album.
two pregnancies, a two-seater car, a beauty Cascio, Fabrizio Ferracane Italy, 56’, Documentary. There, he meets So, a mysterious investigator
queen, a poodle and the election of a second Synopsis: In the early 1980s, an all-out war Salle Buñuel working on behalf of the startup Digital Cool.
fascist – this time in Brazil. An abstract crime rages between Sicilian mafia bosses. Tommaso Sales: Cannes Classics Next screening: 24 May, 11:00, Theatre
thriller without a crime, Two sisters… Buscetta, a made man, flees to hide out in Brazil. Section: Cannes Classics Croisette
unfolds like a dream. Based on an original Back home in Italy, scores are being settled, and Director: Mario Sesti
screenplay by Gertrude Stein. Buscetta’s allies are killed off one after another. Synopsis: Presented by Erma Pictures in 20:30
Sales: Lux Next screening: 24 May, 08:30, Salle Du 60e collaboration with Cinecittà Luce. A presentation
HÃY T NH TH C VÀ S N SÀNG (Premiere) of Erma Pictures in collaboration with Cinecittà WOUNDS
14’ PALMARES ET PROJECTION DES Luce. The last interview of the Master Bertolucci USA, United Kingdom, 96’.
Director: Pham Thien An FILMS PRIMES who recalls his work with precision, delicacy and Olympia 8
Casting: Be Hieu, Huynh Ngoc Hanh, Le Quoc Salle Buñuel (Press screening) philosophy. A movie lesson. Sales: Annapurna Pictures
Bao Vi, Trung Dong Cao, Vu Trong Tuyen Section: Cinéfondation 19:30 Section: Directors’ Fortnight
Synopsis: On a street corner a mysterious Director: Babak Anvari
conversation among three young men at a TALENT ADAMI & GRAND PRIX
street stalls. Meanwhile a traffic accident on NESPRESSO (Premiere) ONCE IN TRUBCHEVSK (Premiere) Casting: Armie Hammer Dakota Johnson, Zazie
a motorbike. The night brings together a Miramar Russia, 81’, Drama. Beetz
sketch, a multicolour frame of reality. Théâtre Claude Debussy (Press Sreening) Synopsis: Will is a bartender in New Orleans.
Sales: Lights On Sales: Semaine De La Critique Sales: Loco Films He has a great job, great friends, and a girlfriend,
Section: Critics’ Week
PIECE OF MEAT (Premiere) Section: Un Certain Regard Carrie, who loves him. He skates across life’s
surface, ignoring complications and
12’, Animation 17:30 Director: Larissa Sadilova concentrating on enjoying the moment. One
Synopsis: In a small town, nothing stays a
Director: Huang Junxiang, Jerrold Chong secret. No matter how hard you try to hide night at the bar, a violent brawl breaks out,
Synopsis: Enslaved in a surreal world of GHOST TROPIC (Premiere) infidelities, the truth will come out sooner or which injures one of his regular customers and
living objects, a lamb cutlet does whatever it Belgium, 85’, Drama. later. A decision then arises: to start a new life causes some college kids to leave behind a cell
takes to make ends meet. Theatre Croisette together or to confess and hope for forgiveness. phone in their haste. Will begins receiving
15:30 Sales: Quinzaine Des Realisateurs/Directors’ This is the choice the protagonists are faced disturbing texts and calls from the stranger’s
with.
Fortnight
phone. While Will hopes to not get involved,
Section: Directors’ Fortnight Next screening: 24 May, 14:00, Bazin Carrie gets lost down a rabbit hole investigating
MATTHIAS & MAXIME (Premiere) Director: Bas Devos
Canada, 119’, Drama. Synopsis: After a long day at work, 58-year-old TALENT ADAMI & PRIX FONDATION this strange malevolence. They’ve discovered
Salle Du 60e Khadija falls asleep on the last subway train. GAN A LA DIFFUSION (PREMIERE) something unspeakable, and it’s crawling slowly
into the light.
Sales: Seville International When she wakes up at the end of the line, she
(Albatros Entrance, 5th Floor) has no choice but to make her way home on Miramar 21:00
Section: Day after screenings (In Competition) foot. On her nocturnal journey she finds herself Sales: Semaine De La Critique
Section: Critics’ Week
Director: Xavier Dolan compelled to ask for and give help to the other HOMEWARD (Premiere)
Casting: Gabriel D’Almeida Freitas, Xavier inhabitants of the night. 20:00 Ukraine, 92’, Drama.
Dolan, Pier-Luc Funk, Samuel Gauthier, Antoine Next screening: 24 May, 11:30, Olympia 8
Pilon, Adib Alkhalidey, Catherine Brunet, MATTHIAS & MAXIME (Premiere) Salle Du 60e
Micheline Bernard, Anne Dorval 18:00 Canada, 119’, Drama. Sales: Wild Bunch
Synopsis: Two childhood best friends are asked (5 Square Mérimée – 1er Étage)
to share a kiss for the purposes of a student THE TRAITOR (Premiere) Olympia 1 Section: Day after screenings (Un Certain
short film. Soon, a lingering doubt sets in, Italy, 145’, Drama. Sales: Seville International Regard)
confronting both men with their preferences, Salle Bazin (Press Screening) (Albatros Entrance, 5th Floor) Director: Nariman Aliev
threatening the brotherhood of their social circle, Sales: The Match Factory Section: In competition Casting: Akhtem Seitablaev
and, eventually, changing their lives. (25 La Croisette) +33 6 43 63 46 73 Director: Xavier Dolan Synopsis: Having lost his oldest son in the war
Section: In competition Casting: Gabriel D’Almeida Freitas, Xavier between Russian and Ukraine, Mustafa resolves
THE GANGSTER, THE COP, THE DEVIL Director: Marco Bellocchio Dolan, Pier-Luc Funk, Samuel Gauthier, Antoine to bring the boy’s body to the land of his birth:
Korea (South), 109’, Crime. Casting: Pierfrancesco Favino, Fausto Russo Pilon, Adib Alkhalidey, Catherine Brunet, Crimea. Together, he and his younger son set out
Salle Bazin (Press Screening) Alesi, Fernanda Candido, Nicola Cali, Luigi Lo Micheline Bernard, Anne Dorval on a journey that will profoundly mark their
Sales: K-Movie Entertainment (G17) Cascio, Fabrizio Ferracane Synopsis: Two childhood best friends are asked relationship.
Section: Out of Competition (Midnight Synopsis: In the early 1980s, an all-out war to share a kiss for the purposes of a student 21:30
short film. Soon, a lingering doubt sets in,
Screening) rages between Sicilian mafia bosses. Tommaso confronting both men with their preferences,
Director: Won-Tae Lee Buscetta, a made man, flees to hide out in Brazil. threatening the brotherhood of their social circle, BOYZ’N THE HOOD
Back home in Italy, scores are being settled, and
Casting: Don Lee, Moo-Yeol Kim, Seong-Gyu Buscetta’s allies are killed off one after another. and, eventually, changing their lives.
Kim Next screening: 24 May, 09:30, Olympia 2 112’.
Synopsis: In Cheonan, a serial murder case Next screening: 24 May, 08:30, Salle Du 60e Plage Macé
takes place, but the case becomes more and Section: Cinéma de la plage
more of a mystery. Only Tae-suk, a cop, 18:30 KONGO (Premiere) Director: John Singleton
immediately senses that all the cases are by the France, 70’, Documentary. Casting: Cuba Gooding Jr., Ice Cube, Morris
same killer and starts investigation. One day, THE TRAITOR (Premiere) Olympia 2 Chestnut, Laurence Fishburne, Angela Bassett
Dong-soo, a gang boss, got attacked by a Italy, 145’, Drama. Sales: Kidam
suspicious man, and Tae-suk realises that this Grand Théâtre Lumière (Ticket Required) Section: Acid 22:00
man is the serial killer, K. Now, Dong-soo Sales: The Match Factory Director: Hadrien La Vapeur, Corto Vaclav
becomes the only witness and a survived victim (25 La Croisette) +33 6 43 63 46 73 Synopsis: In Brazzaville, an invisible world
from K. A dangerous deal between the cop and governs the visible world. The apostle Medard MEKTOUB, MY LOVE: INTERMEZZO
the gangster to catch the devil has set! Section: In competition struggles to heal the sick victims of bad spells. (Premiere)
Director: Marco Bellocchio
Next screening: 24 May, 19:30, Salle Du 60e Casting: Pierfrancesco Favino, Fausto Russo But his life changes when he is publicly accused France, 240’, Drama.
Alesi, Fernanda Candido, Nicola Cali, Luigi Lo of practicing black magic. Grand Théâtre Lumière (Ticket Required)
Sales: Pathé Films (Ibis Entrance, 4a/E)
16:30 Cascio, Fabrizio Ferracane 20:15 Section: In competition
Synopsis: In the early 1980s, an all-out war
rages between Sicilian mafia bosses. Tommaso Director: Abdelatif Kechiche
THE TRAITOR (Premiere) Buscetta, a made man, flees to hide out in Brazil. ALL ABOUT YVES (Premiere) Synopsis: French-Tunisian director Abdellatif
Italy, 145’, Drama. Back home in Italy, scores are being settled, and France, 107’, Comedy. Kechiche returns to Cannes with the Intermezzo
Théâtre Claude Debussy (Press Screening) Buscetta’s allies are killed off one after another. Theatre Croisette of Mektoub, My Love, six years after his Palme
Sales: The Match Factory Next screening: 24 May, 08:30, Salle Du 60e Sales: Le Pacte (M21) d’or with La Vie d’Adèle (Blue Is the Warmest
(25 La Croisette) +33 6 43 63 46 73 Section: Directors’ Fortnight (Closing) Color). The groundwork for this saga storytelling
Section: In competition 19:00 Director: Benoît Forgeard and extraordinary portrait of French youth in the
Director: Marco Bellocchio Casting: William Lebghil, Doria Tillier 90s was laid in his Canto Uno.
Casting: Pierfrancesco Favino, Fausto Russo CINECITTA - I MESTIERI DEL CINEMA Synopsis: Jerem decides to settle at his Next screening: 24 May, 08:30, Lumiere

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