Take the Tour: "Festival Winners: Cannes"
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South Korea - 2019
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- Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-Kyun ...
- Synopsis:
- A peculiar tale about two families who are worlds apart yet somewhat alike portrays a striking reality of the world we live in. Gi Taek (Song Kang-ho) and his family are ...
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Sweden - 2017
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- Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss ...
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- Christian, manager of a contemporary art museum, is responsible for an exhibition called 'The Square', which promotes human and altruistic values.
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United Kingdom - 2016
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- Dave Johns, Hayley Squires ...
- Synopsis:
- A middle aged carpenter who requires state welfare after injuring himself, and is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario.
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United States - 2004
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- Documentary, Self: Michael Moore ...
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- The Winner of the Palme d'Or of the 57th edition of the Cannes Film Festival is this Michael Moore's controversial documentary, widely admired by liberals and equally ...
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United States - 2003
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- Alex Frost, Eric Deulen ...
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- An American high school on what appears to be an ordinary day. For each of the students we meet, high school is a different experience: stimulating, friendly, traumatic, ...
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Denmark - 2000
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- Björk, Catherine Deneuve ...
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- The story concerns Selma (Björk), a Czech immigrant living in 1964 Washington State with her 12-year-old son, Gene (Vladan Kostic). On the verge of blindness, Selma ...
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Japan - 1997
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- Kôji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu ...
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- The film opens with Takuro Yamashita (Koji Yakusho), a seemingly normal salaryman, learning that his wife might be having an affair. When he catches the couple in ...
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New Zealand - 1993
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- Holly Hunter, Anna Paquin ...
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- Set in 1851, a mute Scottish woman (Hunter) arrives in colonial New Zealand for an arranged marriage, with her precocious young daughter (Paquin) and beloved piano in ...
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China - 1993
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- Cast:
- Gong Li, Leslie Cheung ...
- Synopsis:
- "Farewell, My Concubine" is a movie with two parallel, intertwined stories. It is the story of two performers in the Beijing Opera, stage brothers, and the woman who ...
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United States - 1990
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- Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern ...
- Synopsis:
- Sailor Ripley is a violent ex-convict with an Elvis fixation who falls in love with Lula Fortune, the daughter of a rich, but mentally unstable, Southern belle named ...
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Japan - 1983
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- Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto ...
- Synopsis:
- A fusion of Japanese Kabuki and modern film techniques, this adaptation of Shichiro Fukazawa's 1956 novel depicts the moving tale of a 69-year-old woman's traditional ...
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Turkey - 1982
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- Cast:
- Tarik Akan, Serif Sezer ...
- Synopsis:
- This winner (ex aequo) of the Palme D'Or for Best Picture at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival paints a compelling portrait of modern Turkey as seen through the eyes of five ...
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United States - 1982
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- Cast:
- Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek ...
- Synopsis:
- This political thriller winner (ex aequo) of the Golden Palm in Cannes Film Festival has its origins in an actual event – the disappearance of a young American writer and ...
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Germany - West Germany (FRG) - 1979
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- Cast:
- David Bennent, Mario Adorf ...
- Synopsis:
- Danzig in the 1920s/1930s. Oskar Matzerath, son of a local dealer, is a most unusual boy. Equipped with full intellect right from his birth he decides at his third ...
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United States - 1974
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- Gene Hackman, John Cazale ...
- Synopsis:
- Harry Caul is a nationally known expert on surveillance. The Director of a large company has hired him to record the conversations of two of the Director's employees. ...
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United States - 1973
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- Cast:
- Al Pacino, Gene Hackman ...
- Synopsis:
- Max is an ex-con who's been saving money to open a car wash in Pittsburgh. Lionel is a sailor who's returning home to the midwest to see the child born while he was at ...
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United Kingdom - 1973
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- Cast:
- Robert Shaw, Sarah Miles ...
- Synopsis:
- This is a thoughtful film that lays bare the iniquities of the so-called upper class and those who work for them; the haves and have-nots. Robert Shaw does a creditable ...
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United Kingdom - 1971
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- Julie Christie, Alan Bates ...
- Synopsis:
- Summer 1900: Queen Victoria's last and the summer Leo turns 13. He's the guest of Marcus, a wealthy classmate, at a grand home in rural Norfolk. Leo is befriended by ...
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Spain - 1961
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- Silvia Pinal, Fernando Rey ...
- Synopsis:
- Viridiana is a virtuous young woman living in a convent in Spain and about to take her vows as a nun, when she is urged by her superior to visit her closest living ...
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France - 1959
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- Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn ...
- Synopsis:
- Academy Award Winner and winner of the palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, Marcel Camus' Black Orpheus retells the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice against the ...
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Sweden - 1951
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- Anita Björk, Ulf Palme ...
- Synopsis:
- While never as highly regarded as those illustrious filmmakers who surrounded him, the early films of director Alf Sjöberg helped Swedish cinema thrive during its ...
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United Kingdom - 1949
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- Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli ...
- Synopsis:
- Holly Martins, a pulp novelist who has come to post-WWII Vienna with the promise of work from his friend, Harry Lime. When he finds that Lime has just been killed in a ...
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India - 1946
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- Cast:
- Uma Anand, Kamini Kaushal ...
- Synopsis:
- Chetan Anand directs this Indian Peoples' Theatre Association-funded, expressionist look at social injustice in rural India. The film centers on a fantastically wealthy ...
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Italy - 1945
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- Cast:
- Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani ...
- Synopsis:
- Based on real events, it tells the story of several Italian Resistance fighters battling fascism in Nazi-occupied Rome. When Gestapo agents raid an apartment where ...
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United States - 1945
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- Cast:
- Ray Milland, Jane Wyman ...
- Synopsis:
- Don Birnam (Ray Milland), a would-be writer, is a long time alcoholic who is dissatisfied with his life. His brother Wick (Phillip Terry) and girlfriend Helen St. James ...
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