Today's Cannes Film Festival competition screenings feature Vengeance from Hong Kong and Kinatay from France and the Philippines.
Synopsis of Vengeance:
A father comes to Hong Kong to avenge his daughter, whose family was murdered. Officially, he’s a French chef. Twenty years ago, he was a killer
Synopsis of Kinatay:
Peping, a criminology student, is recruited by his schoolmate, Abyong, to work as a part-time errand boy for a local syndicate that collects protection fees from various businesses in Manila. The easy money Peping earns is spent mostly on his girlfriend, Cecille, who’s also a student. Peping decides to marry her, but in order to do so he’ll need more money. Abyong contacts Peping to join a "special project" that pays more than normal...
According to the Cannes Film Festival, the following celebrities are in Cannes today: Anne Alvaro, Niels Arestrup, Monica Bellucci, Rachida Brakni, Guillaume Canet, Marion Cotillard, Eric Cantona, Robert Charlebois, Clotilde Courau, Penelope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Jean-Claude Darmon, Cecile De France, Louis-Do De Lencquesaing, Anthony Delon, Franck Dubosc, Vincent Elbaz, Jeremy Elkaim, Ralph Fiennes, Kerry Fox, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Marissa Gibson, Johnny Hallyday, Laura Harring, Afef Jnifen, Doutzen Kroes, Evangeline Lilly, Gabrielle Lazure, Virginie Ledoyen, Jerry Lewis, Sophie Marceau, Tonie Marshall, Sarah Marshall, Demetri Martin, Rowan McNamara, Graham McTavish, Kad Merad, Isabelle Mergault, Paula Patton, Kevin Pollak, Laura Ramsey, Giovanni Ribisi, Kristin Scott Thomas, Tilda Swinton, Said Taghmaoui, Fred Testot, Sylvie Testud, Gerard Watkins, Rachel Weisz, Felicite Wouassi.
Today's film festival schedule
COMPÉTITION - Grand Théâtre Lumière
8:30am and 7:30pm: VENGEANCE by Johnnie To – 1h484:30pm: KINATAY by Brillante Mendoza – 1h40
OUT OF COMPETITION - Grand Théâtre Lumière
7:45pm: L’ARMEE DU CRIME (The Army of crime) by Robert Guédiguian – 2h19 (Salle du soixantième)11:30am and 10:30pm: AGORA by Alejandro Amenabar – 2h21
UN CERTAIN REGARD - Salle Debussy
11:00am and 4:30pm : LE PERE DE MES ENFANTS by Mia Hansen-Løve - 1h522:00pm and 10:00pm : TZAR by Pavel Lounguine - 1h56
CANNES CLASSICS - Salle Buñuel
3:00pm: BILDER FRAN LEKSTUGAN (Images from the Playground)* by Stig Bjorkman - 1h28REDES (The Wave) by Emilio Gómez Muriel and Fred Zinnemann – 1h01
5:00pm: DIEU NE CROIT PLUS EN NOUS (God does not believe in us anymore)* by Axel Corti – 1h49
8:00pm : PIETRO GERMI, IL BRAVO, IL BELLO, IL CATTIVO (Pietro Germi, the good, the beautiful, the bad)* by Claudio Bondí – 1h00
SIGNORE E SIGNORI (The birds, the bees ans the italians) by Pietro Germi – 1h59
(*) Film crews in attendance.
LE CINÉMA DE LA PLAGE
8:30pm : Transjoik 45’9:30pm : NEIL YOUNG TRUNK SHOW by Jonathan Demme – 1h23
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