Cannes 2016: Veteran Directors Dominate Competition Lineup
The 2016 Cannes Film Festival showcases a lineup of established directors, including Ken Loach, the Dardenne brothers, Pedro Almodóvar, Olivier Assayas, Nicolas Winding Refn, Xavier Dolan, Jeff Nichols, and Jim Jarmusch. Almodóvar's film 'Julieta' is deemed one of his finest, despite facing a boycott in Spain linked to the Panama Papers. Assayas delves into the supernatural with Kristen Stewart, while Refn presents 'The Neon Demon' featuring Elle Fanning. Paul Verhoeven's 'Elle' stars Isabelle Huppert, and Asghar Farhadi's 'The Salesman' revisits concepts from 'About Elly'. Other significant films include 'Paterson', 'Poesia Sin Fin', 'Neruda', alongside major releases like Jodie Foster's 'Money Monster' and Steven Spielberg's 'The BFG'.
Key facts
- Cannes 2016 competition includes Ken Loach, Dardenne brothers, Almodóvar, Assayas, Refn, Dolan, Nichols, Jarmusch.
- Almodóvar's 'Julieta' boycotted in Spain after Panama Papers.
- Refn's 'The Neon Demon' is a fluorescent horror with Elle Fanning.
- Verhoeven's 'Elle' stars Isabelle Huppert as a stalker of her attacker.
- Jeff Nichols' 'Loving' recounts a 1950s interracial couple jailed in Virginia.
- Italian films in sidebar: Mordini's 'Pericle Il Nero', Bellocchio's 'Fai bei sogni', Giovannesi's 'Fiore', Virzì's 'La pazza gioia', Comodin's 'I tempi felici verranno presto'.
- Jarmusch has two films: 'Paterson' in competition and 'Gimme Danger' in Midnight Screenings.
- Lily-Rose Depp stars in 'La Danseuse' as Loie Fuller.
Entities
Artists
- Ken Loach
- Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Olivier Assayas
- Nicolas Winding Refn
- Xavier Dolan
- Jeff Nichols
- Jim Jarmusch
- Woody Allen
- Kirsten Stewart
- Elle Fanning
- Paul Verhoeven
- Isabelle Huppert
- Asghar Farhadi
- Cristian Mungiu
- Sean Penn
- Charlize Theron
- Javier Bardem
- Jean Reno
- Adèle Exarchopoulos
- Stefano Mordini
- Riccardo Scamarcio
- Valeria Golino
- Thanos Anastopoulos
- Davide Del Degan
- Marco Bellocchio
- Claudio Giovannesi
- Paolo Virzì
- Alessandro Comodin
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Pablo Larraín
- Gael García Bernal
- Paul Schrader
- Nicolas Cage
- Willem Dafoe
- Matt Ross
- Viggo Mortensen
- Frank Langella
- Kirill Serebrennikov
- Park Chan-wook
- Lily-Rose Melody Depp
- Johnny Depp
- Vanessa Paradis
- Stéphanie Di Giusto
- Loie Fuller
- Laetitia Casta
- Yvan Attal
- Chloë Sevigny
- Jodie Foster
- Julia Roberts
- George Clooney
- Steven Spielberg
- Roald Dahl
- Shane Black
- Russell Crowe
- Ryan Gosling
- Kim Basinger
- David Mackenzie
- Chris Pine
- Ben Foster
- Jeff Bridges
- Federica Polidoro
Institutions
- Festival di Cannes
- Artribune
- Roma Tre Film Festival
- Teatro Palladium
Locations
- Cannes
- France
- Spain
- Virginia
- United States
- Italy
- Trieste
- Chile
- Santiago
- Korea
- Japan