Cannes Film Festival 2020
Here are the films I have seen from the announced selection for Cannes Film Festival 2020. Since the festival did not take place, these are all films I caught in other locations.
This list is fed from my Cannes Film Festival Interest List 2020.
This list is fed from my Cannes Film Festival Interest List 2020.
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- DirectorMagnus von HornStarsMagdalena KolesnikJulian SwiezewskiAleksandra KoniecznaThree days in the life of fitness motivator Sylwia Zajac, a social media celebrity surrounded by loyal employees and admirers, who is really looking for true intimacy.Seen via an online Marche du Film screening.
- DirectorSuzanne LindonStarsSuzanne LindonArnaud ValoisFrédéric PierrotA 16 year old girl, bored with her own age group, becomes involved with an older man at a theater she passes.
- DirectorDanielle ArbidStarsLaetitia DoschSergei PoluninLou-Teymour ThionA mother falls into an addictive relationship with a Russian diplomat, with whom she has nothing in common.
- DirectorNaomi KawaseStarsHiromi NagasakuArata IuraAju MakitaA woman with an adopted child is contacted unexpectedly by the child's birth mother.
- DirectorBen SharrockStarsSidse Babett KnudsenKenneth CollardAmir El-MasryOmar is a promising young musician. Separated from his Syrian family, he is stuck on a remote Scottish island awaiting the fate of his asylum request.
- DirectorFrançois OzonStarsFélix LefebvreBenjamin VoisinPhilippine VelgeWhen 16-year-old Alexis capsizes off the coast of Normandy, 18-year-old David heroically saves him. Alexis has just met the friend of his dreams, who opens his eyes to a new horizon of friendship, art and sexual bliss.
- DirectorViggo MortensenStarsViggo MortensenLance HenriksenLaura LinneyJohn Peterson lives with his partner Eric and their adopted daughter in Southern California. When he is visited by his aging father who is searching for a place to retire, their two very different worlds collide.
- DirectorSteve McQueenStarsDennis BovellSaffron CoomberFrankie FoxA single evening at a house party in 1980s West London sets the scene, developing intertwined relationships against a background of violence, romance and music.
- DirectorSteve McQueenStarsGary BeadleDarren BraithwaiteRichie CampbellMangrove tells this true story of The Mangrove Nine, who clashed with London police in 1970. The trial that followed was the first judicial acknowledgment of behavior motivated by racial hatred within the Metropolitan Police.
- DirectorThomas VinterbergStarsMads MikkelsenThomas Bo LarsenMagnus MillangFour high-school teachers consume alcohol on a daily basis to see how it affects their social and professional lives.
- DirectorFrancis LeeStarsKate WinsletSaoirse RonanGemma Jones1840s England, acclaimed but overlooked fossil hunter Mary Anning and a young woman sent to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship, altering both of their lives forever.
- DirectorMichael DweckGregory KershawStarsPiero BottoSergio CaudaMaria CicciùDeep in the forests of Piedmont, Italy, a handful of men, seventy or eighty years old, hunt for the rare and expensive white Alba truffle-which to date has resisted all of modern science's efforts at cultivation.
- DirectorPete DocterKemp PowersStarsJamie FoxxTina FeyGraham NortonJoe is a middle-school band teacher whose life hasn't quite gone the way he expected. His true passion is jazz. But when he travels to another realm to help someone find their passion, he soon discovers what it means to have soul.
- DirectorPascual SistoStarsCharlie ShotwellMichael C. HallJennifer EhleA coming-of-age psychological thriller that plays out the unsettling reality of a kid who holds his family captive in a hole in the ground.
- DirectorCharlène FavierStarsNoée AbitaJérémie RenierMarie DenarnaudUnder the guidance of a strict ex champion, a promising 15 year old girl trains as a professional skiing star.Will she be able to endure the physical and emotional pressures?
- DirectorFernando TruebaStarsJavier CámaraNicolás Reyes CanoJuan Pablo UrregoAn author recalls life with his father, a university professor who fought against oppression and social inequality in Colombia in the seventies.
- DirectorNinja ThybergStarsSofia KappelZelda MorrisonEvelyn ClaireBella Cherry arrives in Los Angeles with dreams of becoming an adult film star, but she soon learns that fame won't come easy as she harnesses her ambition and cunning to rise to the top of this mesmerizing and singular world.
- DirectorOskar RoehlerStarsOliver MasucciHary PrinzKatja RiemannThe life and the impact of iconic German New Wave director, Rainer Werner Fassbinder.