Antichrist at Cannes Film Festival 2009

Today's Cannes Film Festival features a screening of Antichrist starring Willem Dafoe and Looking for Eric, directed by Ken Loach.

Synopsis of Antichrist:

A grieving couple retreat to ’Eden’, their isolated cabin in the woods, where they hope to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse...

Synopsis of Looking for Eric:

Eric the postman is slipping through his own fingers... His chaotic family, his wild stepsons and the cement mixer in the front garden don’t help, but it is Eric’s own secret that drives him to the brink. Can he face Lily, the woman he once loved 30 years ago? Despite outrageous efforts and misplaced goodwill from his football fan mates, Eric continues to sink. In desperate times it takes a spliff and a special friend from foreign parts to challenge a lost postman to make that journey into the most perilous territory of all - the past. As the Chinese, and one Frenchman, say: "He who is afraid to throw the dice will never throw a six."

Celebrities in Cannes today, according to the Festival: Anne Alvaro, Niels Arestrup, Francois Berleand, Olivier Baroux, Sami Bouajila, Monica Bellucci, Stephanie Bishop, Rachida Brakni, Eric Cantona, Isabelle Carre, Robert Charlebois, Abbie Cornish, Clementine Celarie , Clotilde Courau, Penelope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Audrey Dana, Jean-Claude Darmon, Louis-Do De Lencquesaing, Anthony Delon, Franck Dubosc, Vincent Elbaz, Ronit Elkabetz, Virginie Efira, Jeremy Elkaim, Julie Ferrier, Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Marissa Gibson, Johnny Hallyday, Laura Harring, Doutzen Kroes, Virginie Ledoyen, Thierry Lhermitte, Jerry Lewis, Evangeline Lilly, Sophie Marceau, Tonie Marshall, Sarah Marshall, Demetri Martin, Rowan McNamara, Graham McTavish, Kad Merad, Isabelle Mergault, Kevin Pollak, Laura Ramsey, Giovanni Ribisi, Kristin Scott Thomas, Tilda Swinton, Said Taghmaoui, Fred Testot, Sylvie Testud, Gerard Watkins, Rachel Weisz, Lambert Wilson, Felicite Wouassi, Roshdy Zem.

Today's Cannes Film Festival Schedule

COMPÉTITION - Grand Théâtre Lumière

8:30 am, 2:30 pm and 7:30 pm: LOOKING FOR ERIC by Ken Loach – 1h56
11:30am and 10:30pm: ANTICHRIST by Lars Von Trier – 1h44

UN CERTAIN REGARD - Salle Debussy

11:00 am and 4:30 pm: IRENE (Irene) by Alain Cavalier - 1h25
2:00 pm : INDEPENDENCIA by Raya Martin - 1h17
10:00 pm: DOGTOOTH by Yorgos Lanthimos – 1h36

CANNES CLASSICS - Salle Buñuel

3:00 pm: A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (Gu Ling Jie Shao Nian Sha Ren Shi Jian) by Edward Yang – 3h57
7:45 pm: SENSO (Livia) by Luchino Visconti – 2h03 (Salle du Soixantième)
8:00 pm: LES YEUX SANS VISAGE (Eyes without a Face) by Georges Franju – 1h31

LE CINÉMA DE LA PLAGE

8:30 pm : Blue Foundation 45’
9:30 pm: ZIGGY STARDUST by D.A Pennebaker – 1h30

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