2009 Cannes Film Festival talk keeps heating up. A journo friend in France is telling us he’ll have a new report on Monday that might reveal more and now the AFP has stepped in with their latest report.
It’s a lot of the usual suspects you’ve already heard guessed, rumored or speculated on: Pedro Almodovar’s “Broken Embraces” seems like a sure bet as does Johnnie To “Vengence,” starring aging French rock icon Johnnie Hallyday, Lars von Trier’s “Antichrist,” Jane Campion’s “Bright Star” and mindfuck sociopath, Michael Haneke’s “Das Weisse Band” (The White Ribbon) (and Tarantino’s ‘Basterds’ of course; presumably out of competition however).
However, the French publication who talked to Thierry Fremaux, who heads up the Cannes festival, to not expect the Coen Brothers’ “A Serious Man,” Alejandro González Iñárritu’s “Bitiful” and Steven Soderbergh’s “The Informant” because all three pictures will not be complete it time (they also mention “The Girlfriend Experience,” which is complete and they’ve probably got that confused since it’ll appear at Tribeca).
Other possibilities include Park Chan-wook’s “Thirst,” Korea’s Boon Jong-ho’s “Mother,” Ken Loach’s “Looking for Eric” and Fatih Akin’s new comedy (of all things, strange) “Soul Kitchen” among others.
A source we talked to in Austin working on Terrence Malick’s “Tree Of Life,” said the film was in reshoots the week we were there for SXSW and suggested the film was up to at least a year away, so there’s probably no way we’re going to see it in 2009, let alone at Cannes. [AFP]