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Feature films Jury is led by the famous British director Stephen Frears, an author of such popular films like “Queen”, “Dangerous Liaisons” and “Hero”. Among other membership of the 60th anniversary festival jury in Cannes are: French actor and director Michel Piccoli, Hong Kong actress Maggie Cheung, Australian actress Toni Colette, Italian actor and director Marco Bellocchio, Canadian actress and director Sarah Polley, Mauritanian director Abderrahmane Sissako and a Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk, laureate of the literature Nobel Prize.
Thierry Fremaux has mentioned that this year a selection committee made a huge work – this is the first time in the history of the festival when an amount of the submitted films exceeded 1500 quantity. Amongst of the selected films, competitive section will show a number of films of the world famous directors - Quentin Tarantino, Emir Kusturica, Wong Kar Wai, Gus Van Sent and Coen brothers. Other works which make a claim for the Palme d’Or, mainly belong to the young directors.
France will be represented by the works of the Catherine Breillat, Christophe Honoré and Jullian Schnabel. Last one is the director of the musical comedy “Love Songs”. These three directors participate in Cannes Film Festival for the first time.
The opening film this year will be a Film of Wong Kar Wai “My blueberry nights”. In the film besides famous british actor Jude Law there was an american jazz singer Norah Jones.
Hors concours at the Cannes film festival will be featured by a new documentary film “Sisqo” by American director Michael Moore. Three years ago he got the Grand-Prix of the festival for his famous work “Farengheit 9/11”.
In the festival days there will be screening of the new documentary film about Marlon Brando.
Film “Alexandra” – it is a drama about life of the military and peaceful people in the up-to-date Chechnya. Scenario was written by the director himself. Starred by famous opera singer Galina Vyshnevskaya, who celebrated her 80th anniversary last year.
Producer and composer of the film – Andrey Sigle who already worked with Alexander Sokurov in a tandem in such films like “Taurus”, “Father and son”, “The Sun”.
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Sokurov to begin shooting final film
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| Phyllida Lloyd on Alexander Sokurov's "Alexandra" |
| A Russian woman visits her soldier grandson in war-ravaged Chechnya. She shuffles about the camp with a kind of perplexed authority, meeting soldiers, chatting to her grandson and tottering off for some shopping in the nearby Chechen market |
| "Mamma Mia!" director Phyllida Lloyd, 30 dec. 2008 |
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| Sokurov’s ALEXANDRA: A Prayer for Peace |
| A film about war without bullets, bombs, or bloodshed — it’s difficult even to be convinced of “the enemy,” although Alexandra was shot on location in Grozny in the midst of the real war between Russia and Chechnya. But this we kno |
| Diane Sippl, Cinema without borders |
| 11 | 12 | 2007 |
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| ALEXANDRA- According to Alexander Sokurov and Andrei Sigle |
| Known as one of Russia’s most intellectual and spiritual filmmaikers, Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov was born in 1951 in the Siberian village of Podorvikha. He graduated from the History Department of Gorky University in 1974 and, in the same year, |
| James Ulmer, Cinema without borders |
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