Cannes 1991
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- DirectorBill DukeStarsForest WhitakerGregory HinesRobin GivensA gangster's girlfriend flees to Harlem with a trunkload of gold after a shootout, unaware that the rest of the gang are on her trail.In Competition
- DirectorRustam KhamdamovStarsJeanne MoreauElena SoloveyNatalya LebleThe story of a woman returning from a labor camp. She is looking for a person, on whose denunciation she was arrested, in order to take revenge on him, but having completed her judgment, she realizes that revenge is meaningless.In Competition
- DirectorKaren ShakhnazarovStarsMalcolm McDowellOleg YankovskiyArmen DzhigarkhanyanOver seventy five years ago Russia's last Tsar and his entire family met their fate at the hands of a murderous assassin. Yet, behind the closed doors of a modern day psychiatric hospital a patient is telling the story of the event.In Competition
- DirectorJoel CoenEthan CoenStarsJohn TurturroJohn GoodmanJudy DavisA renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.In Competition
- DirectorKaige ChenStarsZhongyuan LiuLei HuangQing XuA blind man's master told him that after he has broken 1000 strings on his Banjo, he can open the Banjo to get a script for his eyes. After 60 years he broke the 1000th string...In Competition
- DirectorPupi AvatiStarsBryant WeeksEmile B. LevisettiJulia EwingBiopic of troubled jazz musician/composer Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931), who played with the Paul Whiteman band, among others.In Competition
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsBarbara SukowaJean-Marc BarrUdo KierJust after World War II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politically sensitive with various people trying to use him.In Competition
- DirectorIrwin WinklerStarsRobert De NiroAnnette BeningGeorge WendtReturning to Hollywood 1951 after working in France, a movie director meets McCarthyism head-on.In Competition
- DirectorDavid MametStarsJoe MantegnaWilliam H. MacyVincent GuastaferroA Jewish homicide detective investigates a seemingly minor murder and falls in with a Zionist group as a result.In Competition
- DirectorMaroun BagdadiStarsHippolyte GirardotRafik Ali AhmadHussein SbeityA French photograher is kidnapped and held hostage in a war-torn Beirut. Slowly but surely his integrity and self-respect is broken.In Competition
- DirectorDaniele LuchettiStarsSilvio OrlandoNanni MorettiGiulio BrogiCesare Botero (Nanni Moretti) is a young minister well-known to be corrupted and corrupter. He is looking for an appropriate spokesman. He finds the right person in Prof. Luciano Sandulli (Silvio Orlando). Sandulli is a very good and polite person, he is positive and full of hopes, but unluckily his economic position is disastrous. So he immediately accepts the new job. He has to write all the speeches of the minister, and soon became a sort of mentor. In fact his first impact with Rome and his politician world is positive, Sandulli is really convinced the young minister want really change the situation working for the common interest. But step by step, nevertheless his economic and familiar situation gets a lot of benefits by his new job, he enters in a world in which intrigues and corruption are the only laws. The honest Sandulli will react trying to resist to the cynic world of Botero. He will come back to his students.In Competition
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsWesley SnipesAnnabella SciorraSpike LeeFriends and family of a married Black architect react in different ways to his affair with an Italian secretary.In Competition
- DirectorJacques RivetteStarsMichel PiccoliJane BirkinEmmanuelle BéartThe former famous painter Frenhofer revisits an abandoned project using the girlfriend of a young visiting artist. Questions about truth, life, and artistic limits are explored.In Competition
- DirectorMarco FerreriStarsSergio CastellittoFrancesca DelleraPhilippe LéotardA peculiar love story between two weirdos.In Competition
- DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiStarsIrène JacobWladyslaw KowalskiHalina GryglaszewskaTwo parallel stories about two identical women; one living in Poland, the other in France. They don't know each other, but their lives are nevertheless profoundly connected.In Competition
- DirectorTheodoros AngelopoulosStarsMarcello MastroianniJeanne MoreauGregory Patrick KarrA reporter stuck in a border town with an overcrowding of refugees sees a man he believes to be a long lost politician.In Competition
- DirectorPatrick BouchiteyStarsJean-François StéveninPatrick BouchiteyJean-Pierre BissonSimon and Dede are best friends: two aimless drunks who spend their days getting sloshed and any other available time getting laid. Simon is living on unemployment benefits in a trailer parked near his sister's apartment. Dede works at a fish-packing plant on the night shift. Neither man is sensitive, young, or good looking. However, their sang-froid (literally, "cold blood," referring to a quality of imperturbability) stands them in good stead as they go about their seedy lives, picking up one woman and having sex with her on the beach, or when Simon calmly has sex with a prostitute in front of the woman's brother. In the past, a bizarre necrophiliac situation led to Simon experiencing his only sense of what it might be to truly love someone.In Competition
- DirectorWerner SchroeterStarsIsabelle HuppertLisa KreuzerMathieu CarrièreA female writer and her relationships with two different men, one joyous and one introverted.In Competition
- DirectorMaurice PialatStarsJacques DutroncAlexandra LondonBernard Le CoqThe final sixty-seven days of Van Gogh's life are examined.In Competition
- DirectorJohn BerryStarsSam WaterstonAleksandr PotapovKeir GilesAn American meteorologist spots an aircraft wreckage while flying over the Arctic. When he spots a badly injured Soviet airman, he parachutes down with first aid supplies, but an encroaching storm severely limits their chance of rescue.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorJohn SingletonStarsCuba Gooding Jr.Laurence FishburneHudhail Al-AmirFollows the lives of three young males living in the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence, and future prospects.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorKhosrow SinaiStarsMehdi AhmadiYousef JokarBahram ZandiWe follow a young man reflecting on his life in this thought-provoking tale of childhood. Forced to flee the devastated village of Abadan with his family at the beginning of the war, the young man returns years later. As he surveys the ruins of his former homestead, he remembers how his family adapted to a new life, his boyhood escapades, and his first love. An elegant account of how war affects the lives of children, this drama is a must see.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorZoltán KamondiStarsEnikõ EszenyiRudolf HrusínskýGregory HladyUn Certain Regard
- DirectorFax BahrGeorge HickenlooperEleanor CoppolaStarsDennis HopperMartin SheenMarlon BrandoDocumentary that chronicles how Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979) was plagued by extraordinary script, shooting, budget, and casting problems--nearly destroying the life and career of the celebrated director.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorLeo BerkeleyStarsCraig AdamsLuke ElliotAlex MengletTwo teenagers get entangled in a criminal coup enterprise but must raise $500 each in order to set sail for Africa.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorAribam Syam SharmaStarsKiranmalaKangabamTombaThe harmony in a family in the Manipur Valley, is disrupted by the sudden transformation of a gentle, young wife into a violent woman prone to fits of wild visions. She then goes in search of the Meibi Guru, whom she thinks has chosen her to be initiated into the sect. Her pleasure then lies in the devotion and love through dances and music. She finds total solace in the vivid and colorful performing arts.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorBernard FavreStarsRichard BerryValérie MairesseMireille PerrierFabrice is a knacker ;he's got three women in his life: two mistresses and one wife.Fabrice is a right-wing mediocre man even if he is not interested in politics.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorRaúl RuizStarsVic TaybackMartin LandauAnna KarinaRaúl Ruiz's fabulist modern-day riff on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorYermek ShinarbayevStarsAleksandr PanValentina TyoKasym ZhakibayevAfter their daughter is murdered, a couple raises a son to avenge her.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsEvangelina SosaAlejandro ParodiDamián AlcázarPerla is a teenager who has been prostituted by her mother, Tomasa and acts as a dancer in a cabaret-brothel. The pianist who plays at the venue is a romantic singer-songwriter and inveterate poet who would like to make art out of a sordid situation. When "el Marro", a sick sailor stops at the place and falls in love with the girl, the mother tries to cut off that relationship, but fails to do so. Because she knows that they are actually siblings.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorDrissa ToureStarsTidjane HemaAmadou KonéLacina SanouA richly textured film about contemporary African youth torn between traditional village ways and the promise of an urban future.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorTevfik BaserStarsGrazyna SzapolowskaMüsfik KenterGustav-Peter WöhlerI don't know, but when I saw this beautiful in the Cannes Festival in 1991, there was French subtitles. If we can find them, it's possible to translate them in English. I search them since many years, but I have not find.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorMaksim PezhemskiyStarsAleksandr AnikeyenkoVladimir BaranovViktor BychkovUn Certain Regard
- DirectorJan Jakub KolskiStarsFranciszek PieczkaAdam FerencyMariusz SaniternikSet in 1946, the film tells a story of a Polish villager returning home after years in a concentration camp. Mateusz is an old-timer, a saddler, who finds nothing but hostility when he makes it home after years away. He is not a Jew, though the villagers brand him one and give him a hard time. They feel guilty about the death of his son at the end of the war, and don't want the father around. In the background: beginnings of the Communist regime in Poland.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorBassek Ba KobhioStarsJeanne AbandaEpaye Monny AkwaJean-Pierre Atangana MessiSango Malo contrasts two views of education. The traditional headmaster represents a rigid, "Eurocentric." curriculum designed to produce docile colonial administrators. Malo, the radical young teacher, emphasizes the practical skills needed to build a self-reliant rural community. The film illustrates Brazilian educator Paolo Freire's celebrated distinction between an education which the ruling class uses to inculcate its values in students' minds and one which empowers students to shape their own destiny.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorAdama DraboStarsDjeneba DiawaraMamadou FombaBalla Moussa KeitaA young forest ranger who sees that his work holds the key to the future of his country is disgusted at the short-sighted, money-grubbing ways of his superiors.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorWojciech MarczewskiStarsJanusz GajosZbigniew ZamachowskiTeresa MarczewskaDuring the screening of the film "Daybreak" at the Liberty Cinema, movie characters suddenly come alive and begin to talk to the viewers. The situation surprises communist authorities who send a censor to the theatre.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorRauni MollbergStarsMikk MikiverStina EkbladHannu LauriArno Jurmala is an appreciated nickel tycoon. He has an elegant wife and he owns a huge nickel factory somewhere in Northern Finland. When he is celebrating his birthday in the late 1930s, the guest list consists of significant people from different countries all over the world. What they don't know is that behind the neat facade Jurmala is a ruthless man without any morals or virtues. He can do anything to make more money. Without hesitating he kills his worst competitors and all his employees who have let him disappointed. And when the Second World War begins, he trades with Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union - depending on who is winning at the moment. He also mishandles his wife, unable to have children, which has driven her to become a drug-addict.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorSeijun SuzukiStarsKenji SawadaTomoko MariyaMasumi MiyazakiPainter and poet Yumeji Takehisa (1884-1934) gets involved with a beautiful widow, becoming a rival of her dead husband's ghost and the jealous lover who murdered him.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsPhilippe MaronEdouard JoubeaudLaurent MonnierA boy growing up in Nantes during World War II around his father's auto shop has a love for puppet shows and cinema and develops it into his own art. Jacques Demy, the artist at the end of his life, reflects on his childhood influences.Out of Competition
- DirectorMel BrooksStarsMel BrooksLesley Ann WarrenJeffrey TamborA filthy rich businessman bets a corporate rival that he can live on the streets of L.A. without the comforts of home or money, which proves to be tougher than he thought.Out of Competition
- DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsJohn GielgudMichael ClarkMichel BlancThe magician Prospero attempts to stop his daughter's affair with an enemy.Out of Competition
- DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsSachiko MuraseRichard GereHisashi IgawaThree generations' responses to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.Out of Competition
- DirectorRidley ScottStarsSusan SarandonGeena DavisHarvey KeitelTwo best friends set out on an adventure, but it soon turns around to a terrifying escape from being hunted by the police, as these two women escape for the crimes they committed.Out of Competition
- DirectorAlek KeshishianStarsMadonnaDonna DeLoryNiki HarisDocumentary following singer Madonna on her controversial Blond Ambition tour in 1990.Special Screenings
- DirectorJean-François AmiguetErnest AnsorgeRenato BertaThirteen Swiss filmmakers, each from their own point of view, chronicle and reconstruct the narrative of Swiss cinema, from its beginning to the present day, and in doing so, retrace the history of the country.Special Screenings
- DirectorIsaac JulienStarsValentine NonyelaMo SesayDorian HealyTwo disc jockeys have a friend's murder to solve in the fringe-group melting pot of 1977 London.International Critics' Week
- DirectorArnaud DesplechinStarsThibault de MontalembertRoch LeiboviciMarianne DenicourtA large family, traumatized by tragic deaths, reunites to wait for news about one of their cousins who is in hospital after a suicide attemptInternational Critics' Week
- DirectorS. Pierre YameogoStarsYolande BelemLaure KahoCheick KoneAfter obtaining their Secondary School diplomas, some young people plan to continue their education but are not sure which area to choose.International Critics' Week
- DirectorCanan GeredeStarsAsli AltanPatrick BauchauJohn KellyA bisexual foreign photojournalist arrives in Istanbul, where he believes he will be safe, after he took some photos of military action which could endanger his life. In a bar, he meets Gogo, a violent and secretive androgynous pop singer.International Critics' Week
- DirectorDorota KedzierzawskaStarsDanuta SzaflarskaMonika NiemczykJerzy LapinskiA film set in a small Polish village in the '60s that deals with a young girl's awakening sexuality. Mala, about 13, lives with her unmarried mother and has a boyfriend of her own age. The village is sent into a turmoil by the arrival of the clan of Gypsies, who set up camp in the field. Gypsies are ostracized and damned as 'devils' by the conservative villagers. Mala is attracted to the Gypsies. But the locals attack their camp with fire hoses and Gypsies move on.International Critics' Week
- DirectorAdrian VelicescuStarsIan MacRaeCheryl BianchiJoe BaizaA washed-up trumpet player isolates himself in his downtown apartment, much to the chagrin of his frustrated girlfriend.International Critics' Week
- DirectorDeepa MehtaStarsRanjit ChowdhryPeter BoretskiOm Puri23-year-old Nikhil comes to Canada from India to find his fortune and is convinced by his uncle to work as a companion and care-giver to Sam, an elderly Jewish man. An unlikely friendship ensues, which gives both men new insight into life.International Critics' Week
- DirectorMark ManosStarsCandice DalyJohn DoeMark ManosEve Black finds a job as a dancer in a shady night club to find out more about the mysterious death of her sister, who danced there before she died. The club is using girls for a strange drug experiment, so she asks a cop for help.International Critics' Week
- DirectorFrancesca ComenciniStarsDelphine ZinggFrançois MarthouretJean-Claude AdelinA girl unhappy in a relationship with a much older man decides to try having an affair with a male friend of her best girlfriend.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorGiovanna GagliardoStarsChristine BoissonEnnio FantastichiniFiorenza MarchegianiOn June 30, 1990, in Rome, Marie Christine is getting ready to take her son Pietro and Paolo to their father for the weekend. As the Football World Cup is taking place in Italy, Rome is flooded with supporters; the traffic is chaotic and French-born Marie Christine, who works as a translator, finds a bag that belongs to Miriam, who must leave the next day. Marie Christine decides to find her to return her passport, but one Giuliano Ferrini tries to prevent this. So Marie Christine finds herself navigating through a hot Roman night in a city she doesn't know, among people she never dreamed could inhabit the same city.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorMahmoud Ben MahmoudFadhel JaïbiStarsGamil RatibJalila BaccarFethi HaddaouiThe story of an old man who is losing his grip on reality, fighting to keep his memory in spite of the fast moving society in which he lives.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorMaría NovaroStarsMaría RojoCarmen SalinasTito VasconcelosJulia (Rojo) is a phone operator in Mexico City who divides her time between her job, her daughter and the danzon: a cuban dance very popular in Mexico and Central America. Every wednesday Julia does the danzon with Carmelo (Rergis) in the old "Salon Colonia". They've danced for years but barely know each other. One night Carmelo disappears without a trace. Feeling lonely and sad, Julia takes a train to Veracruz, where she knows Carmelo has a brother. That sudden trip will change Julia's life forever.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorZsolt Kézdi-KovácsStarsAndrás KozákLászló MensárosLili MonoriLeaving his family behind after a conflict with his colleagues, a leading editor at Hungary's state television network travels alone to his country house in the Badacsony region, and reflects on his past, his guilt and the old compromises.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorAleksandr MittaStarsAnthony AndrewsVladimir IlinElena MayorovaA political drama about Stalin's prison-camp system in Russia.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorLefteris XanthopoulosStarsGiorgos NiniosKostas KazakosDora MasklavanouIn early 1950s Athens, an idealist shadow player, after forty years of dedicated work, witnesses the end of an era and the demise of his once popular art with the arrival of cinema.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorAdemir KenovicStarsBranko DjuricBoro StjepanovicZaim MuzaferijaA bitter coming-of-age story about boy who grows up in a remote Bosnian village shortly after the WW II.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorStephen GyllenhaalStarsDennis HopperBarbara HersheyEd HarrisIn a small Georgia town in the 1950s, bigoted store owner Paris Trout kills a young black girl when his brother refuses to pay his debts.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorJocelyn MoorhouseStarsHugo WeavingGeneviève PicotRussell CroweThe life of a blind photographer who is looked after by a housekeeper is disrupted by the arrival of an agreeable restaurant worker.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorVyacheslav KrishtofovichStarsInna ChurikovaYelena BogdanovaSvetlana RyabovaIn a small urban flat, grandma, mom, and two daughters live in partial harmony. Grandma is bed-ridden and mute, but rings a bell above her head. Her daughter Nina, a museum docent, misses male friendship and both her ex-husbands. Each fathered a daughter: Lida, beautiful, in her 20's, having an affair with her boss, and contemplating a month's vacation with him, and Nastiya, acerbic, 15, in trade school. It's grandma's birthday, so the women prepare a celebration; Nina's new male friend and both girls' fathers come. Lida learns more about her boss, and Nastiya announces she's pregnant just as her ex-boyfriend bangs on the door, drunk. Even grandma has a surprise for the family.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorKen LoachStarsRobert CarlyleEmer McCourtJim R. ColemanThe story of construction-worker Stevie and his unemployed pop-singer girlfriend shows the living conditions of the British poor class.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorAtom EgoyanStarsElias KoteasArsinée KhanjianMaury ChaykinA family with the lack of sincerity faces a crisis.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorPeter SellarsStarsMikhail BaryshnikovJoan CusackPeter GallagherFeaturing music instead of any dialogue and set in a near Kafkaesque future, this loose remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari follows a bureaucrat who mysterious Dr. Ramirez and his hideous sidekick want as their latest victim.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorSean PennStarsDavid MorseViggo MortensenValeria GolinoA Vietnam vet comes home to his small town and finds himself in conflict with rules that his brother has vowed to uphold.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorJaco Van DormaelStarsMichel BouquetMireille PerrierJo De BackerThomas believed he was switched at birth with Alfred. Feeling cheated, Thomas spent his life plotting revenge against Alfred, his perceived lifelong adversary who he felt stole the privileged life that should have been his.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorAndré ForcierStarsJean LapointeLouise MarleauCharlotte LaurierAn irresistible woman, Florence, dragging her last 50 disconsolate lovers behind her. A trumpet in the end of his career, loved by Florence and the only one who had refuse her. An amateur staging Othello with the money of his father mafioso, lover of Florence's daughter. A pianist woman in love with the baseman who as a Baptist refused to have sex before there mariage. An alcoolic detective lover of a prude ex-nun. There's some of the characters in this story turning around the vengeance of a jealous girl with the only man loved by her mother.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorManuel PradalStarsSimon ReggianiSébastien NuzzoAgnès JaouiPerspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorRachid BoucharebStarsMourad BounaasNozha KhouadraPierre-Loup RajotDrama about a young Algerian man who studied in Paris, France. After school he returns to his native country - Algeria. But nobody wants to know him, meet him, nobody understands him nor his mother.Perspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorVincent MartoranaStarsEmmanuel MontesCarlosEmmanuelle LepoutrePascal is a runaway teen who wants a new identity, a new family, a new life, but cannot really escape who he is. He's living his teens between his true soul and pretended self, acting like someone else when he does not even know who he is.Perspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorKathleen FonmartyStarsLioChristian VadimOdette LaurePierre is a womanizing photographer, with a slight mean streak. For whatever reason, Camille, an artist in her own right, finds him entrancing and easily succumbs to his devious efforts to get her into bed. Soon she is trying to hold him to her with her oh-so submissive love, and he is playing some games with her head by pretending (usually) to have been playing around with others. Eventually, he encounters another woman who is not so sticky and tells her to buzz off. When they meet some time later, it becomes clear that the relationship meant different things to each of them.Perspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorJean-Pierre SentierStarsPhilippe ClévenotCharlotte Maury-SentierBernard GiraudeauEmile Michel, Lapland, orphan, is obliged to bring back within the tribe the ancestral totem: a gold plumb line "borrowed" formerly by his grandfather Raymond Michel. His quest will take him aboard a floating boat that crosses Baffin Bay in the icy waters of Greenland.Perspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorAlain GuesnierStarsJean DautremayCatherine LachensChristian ColinPerspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorBrahim TsakiStarsFanny BastienBoumediene BelasriRachid FerrachePerspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorClaude WeiszStarsYilmaz GüneyFatos GüneyKerim Afsar"We Called Him the Ugly King" is a mockumentary about Turkey-based Kurdish film director, scenarist, novelist, and actor Yilmaz Güney, shot three years after the filmmaker's death. It's also a political portrait of 20th century Turkey.Perspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorJacques RivetteSuzanne SchiffmanStarsMichèle MorettiHermine KaragheuzKaren PuigFollowing the May 1968 civil unrest in France, a deaf-mute and a con artist simultaneously stumble upon the remnants of a secret society.Perspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorPaul CarpitaStarsAndré MaufrayJeanine MorettiRoger ManuntaMarseille, 1953. Robert Fournier, a docker, wants to live with Marcelle, employed in a biscuit factory. But the apartments are inaccessible to the finances of the young couple. To get a home easier, Robert will reduce his union activities.Perspectives du Cinéma Français