Thursday, April 18, 2013

Cannes film festival 2013: Ryan Gosling, Coens and Polanski line up

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Gosling and Nicolas Winding Refn team up again for Only God Forgives, with Alexander Payne, Steven Soderbergh, James Gray and Stephen Frears also set to present new work

Nicolas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling, whose LA-thriller Drive ran rings round the Croisette two years ago, are planning a second pitstop on the Riviera, it has been confirmed. Their latest collaboration, Only God Forgives, which sees Gosling as a taciturn gangster in Bangkok (and Kristin Scott Thomas as his mother) is the most mainstream entry in the eclectic lineup for this year's competition.

Also rolling onto the grid are new films from the Coen brothers, Alexander Payne, Steven Soderbergh and Roman Polanski. Joel and Ethan Coen present Inside Llewyn Davis, set in the folk scene of 1960s New York, while Soderbergh's Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra will also vie for the Palme d'Or. The film, which stars Michael Douglas as the pianist, with Matt Damon as his long-time partner, was rejected for funding by multiple studios before finally finding backing from TV studio HBO. Payne, who took a seven-year hiatus between Sideways and The Descendants, his drama starring George Clooney, released a couple of years ago, returns with Nebraska, a father/son road trip starring Bruce Dern. The other US director in the running is James Gray, whose 1920s set drama The Immigrant stars Joaquin Phoenix and Marion Cotillard. Gray also wrote the screenplay for Blood Ties, a drama starring Cotillard and Mila Kunis, which marks the English-language debut of Guillaume Canet, the director of Tell No One (and the partner of Cotillard).

That film plays out of competition, as does the only British film to feature this year: Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight, directed by Stephen Frears, about the boxer's refusal to fight in the Vietnam war and the revenge apparently taken on him by the US government. Ali himself will only be shown in archive footage; Christopher Plummer, Danny Glover and Frank Langella play various senior officials. Also out of competition is JC Chandor's followup to Margin Call, All Is Lost, with a lead role for Robert Redford.

Roman Polanski returns to the festival with two films: Venus in Fur, adapted from an off-Broadway play, which is in competition, and Weekend of a Champion, a previously unseen documentary about Formula One racer Jackie Stewart, which isn't. Surprise omissions on the list include Rush, Ron Howard's film set in the world of motor-racing, and either of the upcoming films from Terrence Malick, who won the Palme d'Or two years ago with The Tree of Life. New films from Claire Denis (The Bastards, with Vincent Lindon and Chiara Mastrioanni) and Sofia Coppola (The Bling Ring, with Emma Watson) have been relegated to the Un Certain Regard sidebar, while Cannes perennial François Ozon gets an upgrade to the competition lineup this year with Jeune et jolie, about an upper-class teen who becomes a prostitute.

Other films hoping to catch the eye of jury president Steven Spielberg include La grande bellezza from Paolo Sorrentino, Wara no tate by Takashi Miike, Grisgris, directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, and the latest film from Asghar Farhadi, who won the foreign language Oscar two years ago for A Separation. Le Passé stars Bérénice Bejo, Oscar-nominated in 2011 for her role in The Artist.

As previously announced, the festival will open on 15 May with Baz Luhrmann's 3D adaptation of The Great Gatsby and close 11 days later with Jérôme Salle's South Africa-set thriller Zulu.


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Catherine Shoard 18 Apr, 2013


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