Cannes film festival 2019

Cannes film festival this year calendar starts from 14th May  2019.

Europe’s biggest and most glamorous film festival has always been platform for experimental films and reinventing new form in films..Tarantino’s highly anticipated ninth feature film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Twenty-five years after the filmmaker won the Palme d’Or for Pulp Fiction.

Its ensemble cast includes the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie and Al Pacino, set against the backdrop of the Manson murders, it is “a love letter to the Hollywood of his childhood, a rock music tour of 1969, and an ode to cinema.

Meanwhile, Jarmusch’s horror comedy The Dead Don’t Die

Palm D’Or winners Terrence Malic,Ken Loach, the Dardenne brothers , Abdellatif Kechiche (Blue Is the Warmest Colour) are joined by Cannes veterans Arnaud Desplechin, Pedro Almodóvar and Bong Joon-ho in a strong competition line-up for the top prize

Director Terrence Malick will enter the competition with his German-language World War II tale, A Hidden Life, about an Austrian conscientious objector guillotined by the Nazis in 1943. The 82-year-old Ken Loach with Sorry We Missed You, another socio-realist drama about a couple struggling to get by in modern-day England.

Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardanne new film Le Jeune Ahmed, a story about the Islamic radicalisation of a young Belgian teenager in the wake of Belgium’s deadliest terrorist attack in 2016.

Desplechin returns with Oh Mercy!, a crime drama which sees Lea Seydoux arrested for the brutal murder of an elderly woman;

Almodovar reunites with Antonio Banderas and Penelope Cruz in Pain and Glory, which has been hailed as the Spanish filmmaker’s take on Fellini’s 8½

South Korean director Bong Joon-ho is back with Parasite.

Some important a films include Elia Suleiman’s It Must Be Heaven,

Ira Sachs’ Frankie

Jessica Hausner’s Little Joe

Xavier Dolan’s Matthias & Maxime, Celine Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Justine Triet’s Sibyl.

Wild Goose Lake,

 Thin Ice.

CJ Rajkumar

Author/Cinematographer