Penn’s ‘Last Face’ among 20 vying for top prize at Cannes
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SEAN Penn’s “The Last Face” about aid workers in Africa will compete at the Cannes Film Festival — along with movies about interracial marriage in 1950s America, illness and poverty in working class Britain and cannibal fashion models in Los Angeles — in a high-glamour yet socially conscious lineup announced by festival organizers yesterday.
The 49 selected films come from 28 countries, including Iran, Brazil, Egypt, Israel and South Korea, with 20 of them running for the Palme d’Or, the top prize at the French Riviera festival, held under heightened security after recent deadly Islamic extremist attacks on France and Belgium.
Organizers hope that the three women directors that figure among the 20 top-tier entries will satisfy critics who say that female talent is overlooked at the festival.
This year, top stars expected to grace the famed red carpet at the May 11-22 festival include Marion Cotillard, Shia LaBeouf, Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Charlize Theron, Julia Roberts, Jodie Foster and George Clooney, and this edition will see the return of old Cannes favorites such as directors Pedro Almodovar, Ken Loach, and Jim Jarmusch.
Penn’s latest directorial effort, with Theron and Javier Bardem, is likely to get top attention, alongside the festival’s wackiest entry, the Danish horror film “The Neon Demon” by Nicolas Winding Refn about beauty-obsessed flesh-eating models in LA.
Others include “Loving” by American Jeff Nichols, about a black-white couple in the US in the 1950s, and British director Loach’s “I, Daniel Blake,” about a working-class man in northern England struggling with poverty and injury.
Spanish director Almodovar’s “Julieta” is also competing, and young Canadian director Xavier Dolan has a new entry with “It’s Only the End of the World” about a dying author — the second time the rising star has had a film running for the Palme d’Or. It stars Cotillard and Lea Seydoux.
American auteur Jarmusch returns to the Riviera with “Paterson” — a New Jersey yarn about a bus driver and a poet.
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