Lee Daniels’ ‘Paperboy’ Selected For Cannes Film FestivalPosted by Wilson Morales
April 19, 2012
Source: Variety, The Hollywood Reporter
The Cannes Film Festival unveiled its official selection at a press conference Thursday in Paris, and among the chosen films was the latest film from Lee Daniels, ‘The Paperboy.’
An adaptation of the Peter Dexter novel, the film is about the brother (Zac Efron) of an investigative reporter at the Miami Times (Matthew McConaughey) who tries to help him free a possibly-innocent man on death row (John Cusack). Then things go a bit sour when Efron falls in love with a lady who Cusack’s character’s been writing to from inside the prison (Nicole Kidman).
Michael Haneke’s Amour and Walter Salles’ On the Road will join Rust and Bone by Jacques Audiard and David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis for a trip to the 65th annual Festival de Cannes.
Also screening in the competition are Holy Motors by Leos Carax, The Angels’ Share by Ken Loach and Andrew Dominik‘s Killing Them Softly with Brad Pitt.
Joining them will be veteran filmmaker Alain Resnais who may be approaching 90, but will be part of the competition at next month’s festival. He says it all with the title of his new film, Vous N’Avez Encore Rien Vu (You Haven’t Seen Anything Yet), an adaptation of Jean Anouilh’s Eurydice starring Cannes veteran Mathieu Amalric.
Festival president Gilles Jacob and artistic director Thierry Fremaux announced the official selection for this year’s film festival at a press conference in Paris late Thursday morning.
International media gathered at the Grand Hotel Intercontinental to hear Fremaux declare what titles would be screened on the French Riviera alongside Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom, the festival’s previously announced opening night film, which will also be in the competition. DreamWorks Animation’s Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted is also expected to cause a stir on the red carpet.
Amidst the excitement and red carpet glitter, the festival will also pay homage to director Claude Miller, who passed away earlier this month, with a special closing night of Miller’s last film Therese Desqueyroux starring Gilles Lellouche and Audrey Tautou that the fest announced Wednesday.
Among the special screenings announced are The Central Park Five by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahan and Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir by Laurent Bouzereau.
The out of competition film slate includes Io e Te (Me and You) from Bernardo Bertolucci.
Italian director Nanni Moretti, who scooped a Palme d’Or for The Son’s Room in 2001, will preside over the jury. The Un Certain Regard jury will be headed by British actor and director Tim Roth.The Artist star Berenice Bejo will host the fest’s opening and closing ceremonies.
In true French festival fashion, last-minute additions are expected to be announced in the coming days. The Festival de Cannes runs May 16-27.
OPENER
“Moonrise Kingdom,” Wes Anderson
COMPETITION
“Amour,” Michael Haneke
“The Angels’ Share,” Ken Loach
“Baad el mawkeaa,” Yousry Nasrallah
“Beyond the Hills,” Cristian Mungiu
“Cosmopolis,” David Cronenberg
“Holy Motors,” Leos Carax
“The Hunt,” Thomas Vinterberg
“Killing Them Softly,” Andrew Dominik
“In Another Country,” Hong Sang-soo
“In the Fog,” Sergei Loznitsa
“Lawless,” John Hillcoat
“Like Someone in Love,” Abbas Kiarostami
“Mud,” Jeff Nichols
“On the Road,” Walter Salles
“The Paperboy,” Lee Daniels
“Paradies: Liebe,” Ulrich Seidl
“Post tenebras lux,” Carlos Reygadas
“Reality,” Matteo Garrone
“Rust and Bone,” Jacques Audiard
“Taste of Money,” Im Sang-soo
“You Haven’t Seen Anything Yet,” Alain Resnais
OUT OF COMPETITION
“Hemingway & Gellhorn,” Philip Kaufman
“Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted,” Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, Conrad Vernon
“Me and You,” Bernardo Bertolucci
UN CERTAIN REGARD
“7 Days in Havana,” Benicio del Toro, Pablo Trapero, Julio Medem, Elia Suleiman, Juan Carlos Tabio, Gaspar Noe, Laurent Cantet
“11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate,” Koji Wakamatsu
“Antiviral,” Brandon Cronenberg
“Beasts of the Southern Wild,” Benh Zeitlin
“Confession of a Child of the Century,” Sylvie Verheyde
“Despues de Lucia, “Michel Franco
“La Pirogue,” Moussa Toure
“La Playa,” Juan Andres Arango
“Laurence Anyways,” Xavier Dolan
“Le grand soir,” Benoit Delepine, Gustave Kervern
“Les Chevaux de Dieu,” Nabil Ayouch
“Loving Without Reason,” Joachim Lafosse
“Miss Lovely,” Ashim Ahluwalia
“Mystery,” Lou Ye
“Student,” Darezhan Omirbayev
“Trois mondes,” Catherine Corsini
“White Elephant,” Pablo Trapero
MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
“Dario Argento’s Dracula,” Dario Argento
“The Legend of Love & Sincerity,” Japan, Takashi Miike
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
“A musica segundo Tom Jobim,” Nelson Pereira Dos Santos
“The Central Park Five,” Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon
“Der Mull im Garten Eden,” Fatih Akin
“Journal de France,” Claudine Nougaret, Raymond Depardon
“Les Invisibles,” Sebastien Lifshitz
“Mekong Hotel,” Apichatpong Weerasethakul
“Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir,” Laurent Bouzereau
“Villegas,” Gonzalo Tobal
CLOSER
“Therese Desqueyroux,” Claude Miller
