Today, one of the most important events of the cinema world, the 75th Cannes Film Festival, which will last until 28 May, begins on the Cote d’Azur.
For actors, directors, and other industry figures, this is a large-scale event, hardly inferior even to the Oscars, and the audience has something to see here: after all, among the same Oscar or Golden Globe nominees, continuous films are screened for the first time at Cannes, Therefore, we do not recommend skipping the game show. In the meantime, we offer to refresh our memory and talk about the best films of the festival in the past years!
“Sweet Life” (1960)
The cult comedy drama of Federico Fellini. Journalist Marcello (Marcello Mastroianni) is an observer and participant in all parts of the life of the Italian elite of the late 50s, whose feelings were not hurt even by the American movie star Sylvia (Anita Ekberg).
“Blowup” (1966)
Michelangelo Antonioni’s dramatic thriller about a famous young photographer who discovers a crime in a random photo of a kissing couple.
“Taxi Driver” (1976)
Drama-thriller by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro. At the center of the plot is a Vietnam War veteran watching a bleak panorama of human sins from the window of his taxi.
“Apocalypse Now” (1979)
Marlon Brando in Francis Ford Coppola’s military drama. During the Vietnam War, a captain is sent upriver to Cambodia on a special mission: to find and kill a crazed colonel who has created something of his own cult in a remote area. The madness and horror of war awaits him along the way.
“All That Jazz” (1979)
A musical by Bob Fossey, who gave us “Chicago,” in which Joe Gideon’s creative career, his relationships with women, his ex-wife Audrey and his daughter Michelle are portrayed as an egocentric workaholic who puts him to a heart attack. .
“Kagemusha: Shadow of a Warrior” (1980)
Akira Kurosawa’s 16th century Japanese war drama. A petty thief is sentenced to death, but is suddenly given life – all because of his resemblance to the local ruler, a strong and powerful man who recently died.
“Paris, Texas” (1984)
Drama by Wim Wenders (“City of Angels”). In the desert near the Mexican border, an old man who does not speak or sleep appears – he disappeared four years ago and is now searching for himself in the American countryside.
“Piano” (1992)
A musical melodrama about a mute girl who, with her little girl and her beloved piano replacing her voice, leaves her native Scotland and moves to the other side of the world, to New Zealand, where her husband-to-be is waiting for her. True, she certainly did not expect a “guest” in her house in the form of a piano and still does not even suspect how it will change their whole life.
“Push Fiction” (1994)
One of Quentin Tarantino’s most famous and career-changing works, along with John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, and Uma Thurman. Two gangsters have philosophical conversations between showdowns and settle matters with crime bosses’ debtors.
“Dancing in the Dark” (2000)
In Lars von Trier’s musical drama, Björk plays a migrant factory worker who has lost his sight but hides his illness and continues to work blindly to earn money for his son’s treatment.
“The Pianist” (2002)
Roman Polanski won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for this film, and Adrien Brody won an Oscar. War drama based on the autobiography of Wladyslaw Szpilman, one of the best Polish pianists of the 1930s.
“My King” (2015)
A French melodrama about an accidental meeting with Vincent Cassel at a party and how a mild passion turns into real passion. Ten years of all-consuming love, boundless happiness and blinding jealousy. Where has this relationship taken them?
“Thieves” (2018)
Japanese drama by Hirokazu Kore-eda. A small family of a poor Japanese worker lives almost exclusively on his grandmother’s pension, so some relatives sometimes steal from shops. One day, returning home after another burglary, the head of the family drags a little girl who doesn’t care for her mother from the first-floor balcony.
“Parasite” (2019)
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The story of a Korean family living in a dirty semi-basement, stealing internet from their neighbors and doing odd jobs. Everything changes when the family’s son is offered to tutor a high school student from a wealthy family.
“Lighthouse” (2019)
In the 1890s, a young man, Ephraim Winslow, arrives on a remote island to work as the lighthouse keeper’s new assistant, the lame, bearded drinker Thomas Wake. Soon, it inexplicably begins to be there.
Source: People Talk
