Cannes Film Festival 2009 line-up announced

The Cannes Film Festival just announced their 2009 line-up.  It’s probably the best-known film festival globally, and winning an award at Cannes puts movies you might never see on the map.  (Think “Persepolis” and “The Class”)

The festival is notorious for its loyal love affairs with previous festival winners and 2009 is no different, featuring entries from former Palme d’Or winners Quentin Tarantino, Lars Von Trier and Jane Campion.

This year’s main competition includes Tarantino’s “Inglorious Bastards,” Von Trier’s horror film “Antichrist,” and Terry Gilliam’s “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus,” which stars the late Heath Ledger in the last role he played before his death.  The festival will also feature two biopics: “Bright Star,” directed by Campion, which tells the story of John Keats and Ang Lee’s “Taking Woodstock” that tells the story of concert organizer Eliot Tiber.  And, of course Cannes features several of the weirdest foreign films you can imagine.

For a full list of films in competition, visit the festival’s website, here.

Outside the class and grace of the main competition, Cannes is a debauched beach business trip where million dollar deals go down on cocktail napkins, and everyone hawking something, be it a script, short or just themselves.  The festival opens May 13, with the Disney/Pixar film “Up.”

-Lindsey Lee

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