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Cannes Film Festival 2014: star power vs quality movies


The Cannes Film Festival is incontestably the most important film event in the world, offering glamorous red carpet events and stars by the boatload but also offering “serious” -- for lack of a better word -- cinema a place in the spotlight, with entirely star-free competition titles including important new work from major arthouse names such as Mauritanian veteran director Abderrahmane Sissako, who presented his Mali-set, jihad-themed drama Timbuktu; Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev, who explores the Russian soul and a dark backwater in his Leviathan and the winner of the top prize, Winter Sleep, from Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, which looks at a small cast of characters talking for over three hours in a hotel in rural Anatolia and manages to illuminate such subjects as the rich/poor divide in Turkey.

The Cannes Film Festival is incontestably the most important film event in the world, offering glamorous red carpet events and stars by the boatload but also offering “serious” — for lack of a better word — cinema a place in the spotlight, with entirely star-free competition titles including important new work from major arthouse names such as Mauritanian veteran director Abderrahmane Sissako, who presented his Mali-set, jihad-themed drama Timbuktu; Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev, who explores the Russian soul and a dark backwater in his Leviathan and the winner of the top prize, Winter Sleep, from Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, which looks at a small cast of characters talking for over three hours in a hotel in rural Anatolia and manages to illuminate such subjects as the rich/poor divide in Turkey.

 

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