1996 Cannes Film Festival
![]() Official poster of the 49th Cannes Film Festival[1] | |
Opening film | Ridicule |
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Closing film | Flirting with Disaster |
Location | Cannes, France |
Founded | 1946 |
Awards | Palme d'Or (Secrets & Lies)[2] |
Hosted by | Sabine Azéma |
No. of films | 22 (En Competition)[3] 25 (Un Certain Regard) 7 (Out of Competition) 14 (Short Film) |
Festival date | 9 May 1996 | – 20 May 1996
Website | festival-cannes |
The 49th Cannes Film Festival was held from 9 to 20 May 1996. The Palme d'Or went to Secrets & Lies by Mike Leigh.[4][5][6][7]
The festival opened with Ridicule, directed by Patrice Leconte[8][9][10] and closed with Flirting with Disaster, directed by David O. Russell.[11][12] Sabine Azéma was the mistress of ceremonies.[4]
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Juries
[edit]Main competition
[edit]The following people were appointed as the Jury for the feature films of the 1996 Official Selection:[14]
- Francis Ford Coppola, American filmmaker - Jury President
- Michael Ballhaus, German cinematographer
- Nathalie Baye, French actress
- Henry Chapier, French journalist, presenter and director
- Atom Egoyan, Canadian filmmaker
- Eiko Ishioka, Japanese artist and costume designer
- Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Polish screenwriter
- Greta Scacchi, Italian actress
- Antonio Tabucchi, Italian writer
- Trần Anh Hùng, Vietnamese-French filmmaker
Camera d'Or
[edit]The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1996 Camera d'Or:
- Françoise Fabian, French actress - Jury President
- Gian Luca Farinelli, Cinephile
- Ramon Font, Critic
- Sandrine Gady, Cinephile
- Jacques Kermabon, Critic
- Daniel Schmid, Swiss director
- Antoine Simkine, French member of the Fédération Nationale des Industries
Official Selection
[edit]In competition
[edit]The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:[3]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Breaking the Waves | Lars von Trier | Denmark, Sweden, France, Netherlands, Norway, Iceland, Finland, Italy, Germany, United States | |
My Sex Life... or How I Got into an Argument | Comment je me suis disputé... (ma vie sexuelle) | Arnaud Desplechin | France |
Crash | David Cronenberg | Canada | |
Drifting Clouds | Kauas pilvet karkaavat | Aki Kaurismäki | Finland |
Earth | Tierra | Julio Medem | Spain |
The Eighth Day | Le huitième jour | Jaco Van Dormael | Belgium, France |
Fargo | Joel Coen | United States, United Kingdom | |
Goodbye South, Goodbye | 南國再見,南國 | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Taiwan, Japan |
Kansas City | Robert Altman | United States | |
The Quiet Room | Rolf de Heer | Australia | |
Ridicule | Patrice Leconte | France | |
The Second Time | La seconda volta | Mimmo Calopresti | Italy |
Secrets & Lies | Mike Leigh | United Kingdom, France | |
A Self-Made Hero | Un héros très discret | Jacques Audiard | France |
Stealing Beauty | Beauté volée / Io ballo da sola | Bernardo Bertolucci | France, Italy, United Kingdom |
The Sunchaser | Michael Cimino | United States | |
Temptress Moon | 風月 | Chen Kaige | China |
Thieves | Les voleurs | André Téchiné | France |
Three Lives and Only One Death | Trois vies & une seule mort | Raúl Ruiz | France |
Too Late | Prea târziu | Lucian Pintilie | Romania |
Tree of Blood | Po di Sangui | Flora Gomes | Guinea-Bissau, France |
The Van | Stephen Frears | Ireland |
Un Certain Regard
[edit]The following films were selected for the competition of Un Certain Regard:[3]
- Bastard Out of Carolina by Anjelica Huston
- Buenos Aires Vice Versa by Alejandro Agresti
- Compagna di viaggio by Peter Del Monte
- Conte d'été by Éric Rohmer
- Cwał by Krzysztof Zanussi
- Few of Us by Šarūnas Bartas
- Fourbi by Alain Tanner
- Gabbeh by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
- Haifa by Rashid Masharawi
- I Shot Andy Warhol by Mary Harron
- Irma Vep by Olivier Assayas
- La Bouche de Jean-Pierre by Lucile Hadžihalilović
- Looking for Richard by Al Pacino
- Love Serenade by Shirley Barrett
- Lulu by Srinivas Krishna
- Mossane by Safi Faye
- No Way to Forget by Richard Frankland
- Pasts by Laila Pakalniņa
- Pramis by Laila Pakalniņa
- Some Mother's Son by Terry George
- Sydney by Paul Thomas Anderson
- The Pallbearer by Matt Reeves
- The Pillow Book by Peter Greenaway
- The Waste Land by Deborah Warner
- Un samedi sur la terre by Diane Bertrand
Films out of competition
[edit]The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[3]
Short film competition
[edit]The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:[3]
- 4 maneras de tapar un hoyo by Guillermo Rendon Rodriguez, Jorge Villalobos de La Torre
- Attraction by Alexeï Diomine
- Brooms by Luke Cresswell, Steve Mcnicholas
- Estoria do gato e da lua by Pedro Miguel Serrazina
- Film Noir by Michael Liu
- Les fourmis rouges by Pierre Erwan Guillaume
- Oru Neenda Yathra by Murali Nair
- Passeio com Johnny Guitar by João César Monteiro
- Petite Sotte by Luc Otter
- Sin #8 by Barbara Heller
- Small Deaths by Lynne Ramsay
- Szél (Wind) by Marcell Iványi
- The Beach by Dorthe Scheffmann
- This Film Is a Dog by Jonathan Ogilvie
Parallel sections
[edit]International Critics' Week
[edit]The following films were screened for the 35th International Critics' Week (35e Semaine de la Critique):[15]
Feature film competition
- Les Aveux de l’innocent by Jean-Pierre Améris (France)
- Yuri by Yoonho Yang (South Korea)
- Mi ultimo hombre by Tatiana Gaviola (Chile)
- The Empty Mirror by Barry J. Hershey (United States)
- The Daytrippers by Greg Mottola (United States)
- A Drifting Life by Lin Cheng-sheng (Taiwan)
- Not Me! (Sous sol) by Pierre Gang (Canada)
Short film competition
- Planet Man by Andrew Bancroft (New Zealand)
- A Summer Dress (Une robe d’été) by François Ozon (France)
- La Grande migration by Youri Tcherenkov (France)
- Le Réveil by Marc Henri Wajnberg (Belgium)
- The Slap by Tamara Hernandez (United States)
- La Tarde de un matrimonio de clase media by Fernando Javier León Rodríguez (Mexico)
- Derrière le bureau d’acajou by Johannes S. Nilsson (Sweden)
Directors' Fortnight
[edit]The following films were screened for the 1996 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):[16]
- A toute vitesse by Gaël Morel
- Beautiful Thing by Hettie MacDonald
- A Chef in Love by Nana Djordjadze
- Le Cri de la soie by Yvon Marciano
- Edipo Alcalde by Jorge Ali Triana
- Encore by Pascal Bonitzer
- Flame by Ingrid Sinclair
- Vaska Easoff (Haggyállógva, Vászka) by Peter Gothar
- Inside by Arthur Penn
- Youth Without God (Jeunesse sans Dieu) by Catherine Corsini
- Jude by Michael Winterbottom
- Kids Return by Takeshi Kitano
- Prisoner of the Mountains (Kavkazskiy plennik) by Sergei Bodrov
- La Promesse by Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
- Lone Star by John Sayles
- Macadam Tribu by José Laplaine
- Mondani a mondhatatlant: Elie Wiesel üzenete by Judit Elek
- Perfect Love (Parfait amour!) by Catherine Breillat
- Pasajes by Daniel Calparsoro
- Salut cousin ! by Merzak Allouache
- Select Hôtel by Laurent Bouhnik
- Trees Lounge by Steve Buscemi
- White Night (Layla Lavan) by Arnon Zadok
- Will It Snow for Christmas? (Y aura t’il de la neige à Noël ?) by Sandrine Veysset
- Short films
- La Faim by Siegfried (18 min.)
- La Fille et l’amande by Bénédicte Brunet (15 min.)
- Vacances A Blériot by Bruno Bontzolakis (25 min.)
- Virage Nord by Sylvain Labrosse (15 min.)
Awards
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Official awards
[edit]The following films and people received the 1996 Official selection awards:[2]
- Palme d'Or: Secrets & Lies by Mike Leigh
- Grand Prize of the Jury: Breaking the Waves by Lars von Trier
- Best Director: Joel Coen for Fargo
- Best Screenplay: Un héros très discret by Jacques Audiard, Alain Le Henry
- Best Actress: Brenda Blethyn for Secrets & Lies
- Best Actor: Daniel Auteuil and Pascal Duquenne for Le huitième jour
- Jury Special Prize: Crash by David Cronenberg
Golden Camera
Short films
- Short Film Palme d'Or: Szél by Marcell Iványi
- Jury Prize: Small Deaths by Lynne Ramsay
Independent awards
[edit]- Secrets & Lies by Mike Leigh (In competition)
- Prisoner of the Mountains (Kavkazskiy plennik) by Sergei Bodrov (Directors' Fortnight)
- The Mail (Pasts) & The Ferry (Pramis) by Laila Pakalnina (Un Certain Regard)
Commission Supérieure Technique
- Technical Grand Prize: The whole technical team for Microcosmos
Ecumenical Jury[18]
- Prize of the Ecumenical Jury: Secrets & Lies by Mike Leigh
- Ecumenical Jury – Special Mention: A Drifting Life (Chun hua meng lu) by Cheng-sheng Lin & Drifting Clouds (Kauas pilvet karkaavat) by Aki Kaurismäki[19]
Award of the Youth[19]
- Foreign Film: White Night (Layla Lavan) by Arnon Zadok
- French Film: Les aveux de l'innocent by Jean-Pierre Améris
Awards in the frame of International Critics' Week[19]
- Mercedes-Benz Award: Les aveux de l'innocent by Jean-Pierre Améris
- Canal+ Award: Planet Man by Andrew Bancroft
Award the First Multimedia Day at the 49th Cannes Film festival
- Best Cyber Poster Award in the First Multimedia Day at the 49th Cannes Film Festival in 1996: The Visionary by Beny Tchaicovsky[20]
References
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- ^ "1996 Cannes Film Festival Diaries". filmscouts.com. Archived from the original on 31 March 2016. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
- ^ "Posters 1996". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
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- ^ "35e Selecion de la Semaine de la Critique - 1996". archives.semainedelacritique.com. Archived from the original on 21 August 2017. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
- ^ "Quinzaine 1996 | Directors' Fortnight". quinzaine-cineastes.fr. Archived from the original on 9 August 2022. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
- ^ "FIPRESCI Awards 1996". fipresci.org. Archived from the original on 3 June 2017. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
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- ^ "Bay Area artist wins CyberPoster Contest at Cannes Film Festival". Micro Publishing News. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
Media
[edit]- INA: Opening of the 1996 Festival (commentary in French)
- INA: List of winners of the 1996 festival (commentary in French)
External links
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- 1996 Cannes Film Festival at the Wayback Machine (archived March 16, 2016)
- Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1996 at Internet Movie Database