Last year the Cannes Film Festival Critics’ Week includes Janus Metz‘s fantastic war doc Armadillo (in limited theaters as of last week) and Quentin Dupieux‘s delightfully wacky Rubber. Today, 2011’s line-up has been unveiled. The two big films include one of my favorites from Sundance, Jeff Nichol’s Shotgun Stories follow-up Take Shelter (starring Man of Steel’s Michael Shannon) and Jonathan Caouette‘s first feature since his intimate documentary Tarnation, titled Walk away Renée. Check out the full list below (as well as the rest of the line-up here) and come back for our reviews straight from Cannes.
Feature Films
• Las Acacias, directed by Pablo Giorgelli – ARG
• Ave, directed by Konstantin Bojanov – BUL/FR
• 17 Filles, directed by Delphine & Muriel Coulin – FR
• The Slut (Hanotenet), directed by Hagar Ben Asher – ISR/ALL
• Snowtown (Les Crimes de Snowtown), directed by Justin Kurzel – AUS
• Sauna on Moon, directed by Zou Peng – CHI
• Take Shelter, directed by Jeff Nichols – USShort Films
• Alexis Ivanovitch vous êtes mon héros, directed by Guillaume Gouix – FR
• Black Moon, directed by Amie Siegel – US
• Blue, directed by Stephan Kang – NZ
• Boy, directed by Topaz Adizes – US
• Bul-Myul-Ui-Sa-Na-Ie, directed by Moon Byoung-gon – COR
• Dimanches, directed by Valérie Rosier – BEL
• In Front of the House, directed by Lee Tae-ho – COR
• La inviolabilidad del domicilio se basa en el hombre que aparece empunando un hacha, directed by Alex Piperno – URU/ARG
• Junior, directed by Julia Ducournau – FR
• Permanencias, directed by Ricardo Alves Junior – BRESpecial Screenings
• La Guerre est déclarée, directed by Valérie Donzelli – FR – Opening Film
• Pourquoi tu pleures?, directed by Katia Lewcowicz – FR – Closing Film
• Walk away Renée, directed by Jonathan Caouette – US/FR/BEL
• My Little Princess, directed by Eva Ionesco – FR
Cannes Film Festival 2011 runs May 11th to the 22nd.
What do you think of the Critics’ Week line-up?