With Cannes kicking off next week, today brings a batch of new trailers for films premiering in various sections of the festival. First up, we have the first preview for Stéphane Brizé‘s Vincent Lindon-led drama La loi du marché (The Measure of a Man), which will premiere in the competition slate. The drama follows the Bastards star as a 51-year-old man who gets a new job after being unemployed for some time and faces a moral dilemma. Check out the trailer below.
Following up Stop the Pounding Heart, Roberto Minervini will return to Cannes with his latest film, The Other Side. Premiering in the Un Certain Regard section, the film is described as delving “into a hidden humanity in which the abysses of modern-day American gape wide open. Living in a place that is invisible to the rest of the world, on the margins of society, on the border between illegality and anarchy, is a community which is suffering, trying to react to the threat of being forgotten by the institutions and having their very rights as citizens trampled over. Retired war veterans, uncommunicative teens, drug addicts looking for a way out of their addiction through love, former special forces soldiers still battling against the world, young women and mothers-to-be drifting through life, an older generation which has not yet lost the will to live.” Check out the trailer below.
Next we have the first preview for the Icelandic film Rams, also premiering in the Un Certain Regard section. Directed and written by Grimur Hakonarson, the story is about two brothers in rural Iceland who live side-by-side each other. They are both farmers raising sheep and Ram livestock but despite this they haven’t spoken to each other for 40 years. When a disease starts affecting the rams in the valley the government sets out to kill the animals in the community to stem the infection. The brothers must team up to save their livelihood. The trailer, seen below, showcases a beautiful Icelandic landscape and the film looks to be subdued and quite entertaining.
Lastly, we have the trailer for the Un Certain Regard premiere Taklub, which draws attention to the devastation caused by typhoon Haiyan which devastated the Philippines in 2013. Directed by Brillante Mendoza, the winner of the Cannes best director award for Kinatay, the film follows three different characters trying to deal with the aftermath of the destruction, searching for loved ones. Nora Aunor plays Bebeth looking for the remains of her children. Julio Diaz plays Larry a man who loses his wife and joins a group of Christians carrying around a cross. Aaron Rivera plays Erwin as he has to deal with losing his parents as well as taking care of a younger sister. Showcasing the pain and suffering of the three main characters with a haunting quality, check out the trailer below.
Are you looking forward to both films?