The independent America and France to the conquest of Palmares with many returns to the Croisette and Latin America excluding large!

da Cannes Luigi Noera (Photo courtesy of the Cannes Film Festival)
All 19,15 opens at the Grand Théâtre Lumière the 70th edition of the Cannes Film Festival presented this year Italian actress Monica Bellucci. The film chosen for the opening night is GHOSTS OF ISMAËL Arnaud di DESPLECHIN that tells us a director (starring a surprising Mathieu AMALRIC) He is struggling with his latest film, and the ghosts of the past surrounded by two exceptional actresses like Marion Cotillard and Charlotte Gainsbourg.
Here then a few hours after the inauguration of the 70th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, which it is the festival par excellence, and against the backdrop of joy given off from the other Italian actress Claudia Cardinale laughing and dancing in Posters 2017 we give a brief overview of this event waiting all year for lovers of the seventh art. Meanwhile, over 150 films selected feature films and short films are a remarkable number and an increase compared to last year (134). We are talking about the world's best current production and trendy. It 's true there was a bit' to swell during the first press conference for the choices of artistic direction that ruled Latin America and selected from the production two titles Netflix signed Bong Joon-ho and Noah Baumbach, but now leaving aside the controversy let's enjoy the Festival. First, there are many ritorni.Infatti back in the running for the Palme d'Korean Hong Sang-soo (fourth lap), while for the third time, the Hungarian Kornél Mundruczó, Sergeï Loznitsa the ucraino e i francesi Jacques Doillon (selected 33 years after his last appearance in the race) e François Ozon, and for the second time the American Sofia Coppola and the Scottish Lynne Ramsay.
Debut instead French Robin Campillo, Korean Bong Joon-ho and three Americans: Noah Baumbach e i fratelli Ben e Joshua Safdie. With a Scottish (Ramsay), four French (Hazanavicius, Ozone, Doillon e Campillo), an Austrian (Haneke), a German (Akin), a greek (Lanthimos), Hungarian (Mundruczó), a Russian (Zvyagintsev) and a Ukrainian (Loznitsa), The Old Continent is the hero with 11 film in corsa. But the US is not far behind with four directors (Coppola, Haynes, Noah Baumbach e i fratelli Safdie) while Asia has three representatives (la giapponese Kawase e i coreani Hong Sang-soo e Bong Joon-ho). The rest of the world is absent, in particular Latin America. We point this year, in the race for top prize, Also the presence of three directors. Another special event is the Masterclass which will be held on 21 by Clint Eastwood, who will explain its cinema. A prolific author with over 40 film of which we can define as a masterpiece in American Sniper 2015, Hereafter in 2011, Gran Torino in 2009, Changeling in 2008 but also the latest in Sully 2016, J. Edgar in 2012, Letters from Iwo Jima in 2007 to name the most 'recent. The other Master Class will be 'held on 24 May by ALFONSO CUARÓN author of the award-winning Gravity (2013). Let the numbers of the 70th edition of Cannes. Starting with 19 competing works and 15 works out of competition. While interesting in the Un Certain Regard, discoverer of new talent, I'm 19 of which 6 debuts including the Italian rookie Annarita Zambrano and director Sergio Castellitto. Nell'altrettanta interesting selection Cinéfondation / Cannes Court Metrage are on the whole 25 selected works. The jury is chaired by CRISTIAN MUNGIU, former member of the jury president in Steven Spielberg 2013. Director, writer and producer, follows in the footsteps of Naomi Kawase, Abderrahmane Sissako, Abbas Kiarostami e Jane Campion.
In the collateral independent section Quinzaine de Realisateurs come to 49 th edition I'm 20 feature films and 10 short with two Italian presence : the napoletano Leonardo Di Costanzo with the intruder and Roberto De Paolis with Hearts Puri. While the Semaine Critique of present 11 feature films and 13 courts. This last section has reached its 56th edition. These films must be added the 25 works of the Cannes Classics section dedicated to a large extent to the 70th anniversary of the Festival, in addition to the films of the Cinéma de la Plage.

This year is the 70th including the use of the Festival and there are many events
anniversary. JANE CAMPION, who chaired the Feature Film Jury in 2014 and remains to this day the only female director who Vintola the Palme d'or in 1993, He will present his latest work Tuesday 23 May, Top of the Lake: China Girl, who co-directed by Ariel Kleiman. DAVID LYNCH, 1990 winner of the Palme d'Or with Wild at Heart, Best Director in 2001 with Mulholland Drive and president of the jury in the 2002, will return to the festival to present the Season 3 Twin Peaks . But then also Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Visionary director Birdman and The Revenant will present the short film Carne y Arena, experience as part of an incredible realization of virtual reality (VR). Ma ci sara’anche un TRIBUTE a ANDRÉ TÉCHINÉ. French director, Jury member of the Feature Film 1999, It presented 11 films in the official selection by 1975, of which 6 in competition. His new film, Our Roaring Twenties, It will be screened for the occasion. Those who accompanied him in his films over the years will be present. finally, in memory of ABBAS KIAROSTAMI, Palme d'Or in 1997 He died in July 2016, It will screen his film posthumously 24 Frames in the presence of his son Ahmad Kiarostami.
For our film was selected as we have already mentioned the film of LUCKY Sergio Castellito to represent Italy in the Un Certain Regard. But here is the Mexican filmmaker Michel Franco and the American Taylor Sheridan who could make a serious claim on the prize. The jury of this section has chaired the American actress Uma THURMAN, became the muse of Quentin Tarantino in Pulp Fiction, and assisted by the Egyptian director Mohamed DIAB, French actor Reda KATEB, by Belgian director Joachim LAFOSSE, and the artistic director of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Karel OCH. But the Italian representation in fact does not end there, demonstrating the vitality of Italian cinema also considered so by French, we find a trio of nellaselezione Fortnight with Carpignano, De Paolis and Di Costanzo will have to contend with many talented directors such as Bruno de Demont Amos Gitai-
This year the task of chairing the jury that will award the Camera d'Or went SANDRINA KIBERLAIN aimed at first works presented in the Official Selection, in the Directors 'Fortnight of the realizer and the Critics' Week. The members assisting the Kiberlain are the French Elodie BOUCHEZ, actress, William BRAC, director and producer, Thibault CARTEROT, Fabien GAFFEZ (SFCC), writer and critic and the Swiss producer Michel MERKT. The 2 first works presented out of competition and 5 of Un Certain Regard films, 6 Semaine of Critique and 5 Quinziane of a total of 18 Selected raw in the works 2017.
At this point we just have to wait by the prestigious jury verdict so-called navel of the world of cinema chaired by PEDRO ALMODÓVAR, while our filmmakers yesterday and tomorrow we say good luck!