Two Romanians enter Cannes Film Festival competition

Newsroom 15/04/2011 | 14:30

Romanian director Catalin Mitulescu’s film Loverboy and Romanian-born, but France-established director, Radu Mihaileanu’s (in picture) film La Source des Femmes have received Cannes Film Festival nominations, for the 2011 edition, occurring on May 11-22. Mitulescu’s picture is competing in the Un certain regard category, while Mihaileanu’s creation is competing for the top prize in the Palme d’Or section. Read the full list of Palme D’Or nominees and watch the trailer for Mitulescu’s film below.

Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris is opening the festival this, joined by other American out-of-competition premieres: Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and Jodie Foster’s The Beaver, also starring Mel Gibson.

The following titles are competing for the top prize (the Palme d’Or award) this year:

 

  • Pedro Almodovar’s La Piel que habito (The Skin I Live in)
  • Bertrand Bonello’s L’apollonide – Souvenirs de la maison close
  • Alain Cavalier’s Pater
  • Joseph Cedar’s Hearat Shulayim (Footnote)
  • Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Bir Zamanlar Anadolu (Once upon a Time in Anatolia)
  • Jean-Pierre et Luc Dardenne’s Le gamin au velo (Set Me Free) 
  • Aki Kaurismaki’s Le Havre
  • Naomi Kawase’s Hanezu no Tsuki
  • Julia Leigh’s Sleeping Beauty
  • Maiwenn’s Polisse
  • Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life
  • Radu Mihaileanu’s La source des femmes (The Source)
  • Takashi Miike’s Ishimei (Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai)
  • Nanni Moretti’s Habemus Papam
  • Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk about Kevin
  • Markus Schleinzer’s Michael
  • Paolo Sorrentino’s This Must Be a Place
  • Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia 
  • Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive

 

Below, the trailer for Catalin Mitulescu’s Loverboy:

 


 

Corina Dumitrescu

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