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In Competition

Directed by :: Fernando (ezequiel) SOLANAS

Country:: ARGENTINA

Award for Best Director, 1988

Highlights May 14th 2003

A return to the Croisette and the official competition for director Emir Kusturica, in town to present his new film, Kad je zivot bio cudo (Life Is a Miracle). The second arrival of the day was American filmmaker Jonathan Nossiter and his film Mondovino, a documentary on the wine world.
Highlights - May 15, 2003

The Matrix Reloaded, the long awaited second installment of the Wachowski brothers' cutting ege trilogy, was finally unveiled to the world on May 15, at the Palais des Festivals. The rebels and the foes of the sci-fi wonderland – Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne, Hugo Weaving, Monica Bellucci, Lambert Wilson and Jada Pinkett-Smith – were there for the international premiere of virtual proportions. As for the Official Selection, director Raoul Ruiz, accompanied by Elsa Zylberstein and Bernard Giraudeau, among others, kicked off the competition with his new film, Ce Jour-là.
Highlights - May 16, 2003

André Téchiné travels back to World War II with Strayed – a tale of a young mother and her two children who flee Paris on the eve of the Nazi German occupation - starring Emmanuelle Béart and Gaspard Ulliel. Samira Makhmalbaf tackles the challenging issue of the nascent new life of women in post-Taliban Afghanistan in At Five in the Afternoon, while Wim Wenders sings an ode to blues music with The Soul of a Man.
Highlights - May 18, 2003

A sea of diversity flooded into the Festival today. Festivalgoers were able to dive into François Ozon's Swimming Pool, while James Cameron took us down into the depths of the ocean to discover his Ghosts of the Abyss. Gus Van Sant explores the underside of American youth in Elephant and Sylvain Chomet chose the path less traveled by in animation with Les Triplettes de Belleville.
Highlights - May 21, 2003

It was a very emotional day on La Croisette today, as filmmakers played with our feelings. First, Denys Arcand told the story of a man on the threshold of death who reunites with his loved ones past and present, in The Barbarian Invasions. This film marks the Canadian director's return to Cannes after his 1989 Jury Prize-winning Jesus of Montreal. Vincent Gallo spiced things up with The Brown Bunny, which shows a “real” onscreen fellatio, which had not been seen In Competition, since Marco Bellocchio's Devil in the Flesh 17 years earlier. But, more importantly, Gallo's second feature film is a poetic and melancholic road movie.
Highlights - May 24, 2003

Homestretch to the Palme d'Or! As the end of the 56th annual Cannes Film Festival approaches, the last of the competing films are projected before the award ceremony on Saturday. Charismatic director Peter Greenaway returns to Cannes for the seventh time with his long-awaited Tulse Luper Suitcases: The Moab Story – the first of three installments. On the French side, Bertrand Blier presents his latest film, Les Côtelettes, adapted from his 1997 play and starring Philippe Noiret and Michel Bouquet. Last but not least, Japanese Naomi Kawase brings us Sharasojyu, after her 1997 Caméra d'Or winning piece, Suzaku.
Highlights May 14th 2004

A return to the Croisette and the official competition for director Emir Kusturica, in town to present his new film, Kad je zivot bio cudo (Life Is a Miracle). The second arrival of the day was American filmmaker Jonathan Nossiter and his film Mondovino, a documentary on the wine world.
Highlights May 15th 2004

Two films in competition today on the Croisette: South Korean director Park Chan-wook's thriller Old Boy and the animated Shrek 2, co-directed by the Americans Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury and Conrad Vernon. At midnight there was a special screening of Dawn of the Dead, directed by Zack Snyder.
Highlights May 20th 2004

Japanese director Mamoru Oshii presents Innocence, the second animated film in this year's competition.
Highlights May 22nd 2004
Closing Ceremony 2003 - Palmares
Photo call and interview : Demon Lover

Second french movie in the official competition, "Demonlover", is Olivier Assayas's come-back in Cannes, two years after "Les Destinées sentimentales". A trip to the manga and virtual universe for this director fond of Asian cinema and his actors Charles Berling, Connie Nielsen, Gina Gershon and Chloé Sevigny.
Un certain regard May 15 th, 2003

Le Mag focused on Europe Day today, with the Dardenne brothers as guests. The Jean Cocteau Retrospective was also on everyone's lips. Sami Bouajila and Hippolyte Girardot came to present Arnaud Desplechin's In the Company of Men – the first film to be projected in the Un Certain Regard category this year.
Le Mag : May 18th

Le Mag welcomed two female directors: the Australian Cate Shortland with her first feature Somersault, a drama about adolescence, and Jessica Hausner for her Austrian thriller, Hotel. Finally, in recognition of European Day at Cannes, an interview with European Culture and Education Commissioner Viviane Reding.
Press conference : Irréversible

Scandal on the Croisette with the presentation of "Irréversible" from the french director Gaspard Noé. The movie with the glamourous couple Monica Bellucci / Vincent Cassel deals with unbearable violence (a very crude rape) and revenge : an explosive cocktail that divides the public. An agitated press conference...
Le Mag : may 23th

Summary of the Mag: Djamshed Usmonov, the director of To get to Heaven first you have to die , presented in the selection "Un certain regard". The second part of the Mag introduces Mimmo Calopresti, the director of Volevo solo Vivere, made with testimonies of the survivors of the nazi's concentration camps.
Interview / Photo Call : Purple butterfly
Un certain regard May 19th, 2003
Le Mag: May 13th

The first episode of “Le Mag” welcomed Chilean director Patricio Guzman whose documentary, Salvador Allendeis showing in the Official Selection out of competition.
Press Conference : Spider

After a very controversial Special Price in Cannes for “Crash” in 1996, David Cronenberg is back in the official competition with “Spider”, a dark movie with Ralph Fiennes playing a schizophrenic man haunted by his past. Is Cronenberg, the controversial moviemaker and also former President of the Jury in 1999, going to surprise us again?
Steps : Martin Scorsese

The steps were very crowded for the projection of “Gangs of New York”'s first images. The movie will be released in february 2003 in France. The director Martin Scorsese was in good compagny with Leonardo Dicaprio and Cameron Diaz who caught the attention of all the photographers.
Closing Ceremony 2002

An emotional closing ceremony ! Roman Polanski received The Palme d'or for “The Pianist “a movie about the life of the jewish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman in the Warsaw ghetto. Also awarded, Elia Suleiman (Prix du jury ) with the first palestinian movie in competition “Divine Intervention” and Michael Moore (Prix du 55ème Anniversaire du Festival) with “Bowling for Columbine” the first documentary ever awarded.
Le Mag May 20th, 2003
Le Mag : May 19th

Carole Laure came to talk about her second feature CQ2 accompanied by young actor Clara Furey. The spotlight on the aims of European Day. The Argentinian composer Lalo Schifrin revealed some of his music masterclass.

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The Official Selection 1988

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