Cannes Film Festival 2011 :. Dates: May 11th - 22nd :. Venue: Palais du Festival :. City: Cannes :. Country: France :. Edition: 2011/64th :. Official Site: Cannes Film Festival 2011

From May 11th to May 22nd, Plume Noire was at the Cannes film festival to bring you exclusive reviews of the films presented as well as a festival blog and pictures.

.: Palme d'or: The Tree of Life
.: Grand Prix: Le Gamin au vélo / Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
.: Best Actor: Jean Dujardin (The Artist)
.: Best Actress: Kirsten Dunst (Melancholia)
.: Best Direction: Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive)
.: Best Script: Footnote
.: Jury Prize: Polisse
.: Caméra d'Or: Las Acacias
.: Best Short: Cross
.: Certain Regard Prize: Arirang
.: Certain Jury Prize: Elena

The Artist Director Michel Hazanavicius signs an - almost - silent film that pays homage to the golden age of Hollywood.

Drive Having surprised us earlier with Valhalla Rising, a metaphysical masterpiece on the edge of experimental cinema which reinvented the Vikings subgenre, we could justly wonder what director Nicolas Winding Refn would do with the classic story of a lone hero who gets in trouble after a heist went bad.

Le Havre After having giving us an intimate look at Helsinki, through a series of films, Finish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki now wanders in the streets of French town Le Havre.

House of Tolerance The Apollonide could have certainly been a major film.

The Kid with a Bike The Kid with a Bike is probably the most luminous Dardenne film so far and the most optimistic.

Melancholia Following his very personal vision of horror films, Lars Von Trier's next venture is of another kind: disaster /sci-fi movies.

Midnight in Paris After Barcelona and London, comes the city of light, Woody Allen offering with his new film the first role to Paris.

Once upon a time in Anatolia Have you ever wondered how a Turkish thriller would look like? Well, at least we now know that under Nuri Bilge Ceylan's helm, it turns into a dark and little masterpiece.

Restless Restless tells the encounter of two people facing death, each of them reacting with opposing forces to this matter.

The Skin I Live In With this story centered around a mad surgeon and an abduction, Almodovar delivers one of his signature films.

Sleeping Beauty For her first film, writer/director Julia Leigh delivers a work that aims at teasing the spectator's sensitivity without falling into gratuitous provocation.

The Tree of Life The Tree of Life is a film that will somewhat be remembered as not fully accomplished.

We Need to Talk About Kevin A film built on restraint, ellipses, which prefers to suggest rather than showing.

.: 05/21: Elena
.: 05/21: Deneuve, Sagnier & Garrel
.: 05/21: Lea¯la Bekhti & Nuri Bilge Ceylan
.: 05/21: Andreas Dresen Arrat en pleine voie
.: 05/20: Sean Penn
.: 05/20: Drive*
.: 05/19: Almodovar & Banderas
.: 05/19: Takashi Miike
.: 05/18: Lars Von Trier*
.: 05/18: Udo Kier
.: 05/17: Hommage to Jean-Paul Belmondo
.: 05/17: Jodie Foster
.: 05/17: Jane Fonda
.: 05/17: Jasmine Trinca
.: 05/17: The Tree of life*
.: 05/17: Pirates of the Caraibes
.: 05/14: Rachel McAdams
.: 05/14: Mia Wasikowska
.: 05/14: Henry Hopper
.: 05/14: Polisse
.: 05/14: Julien Doré
.: 05/14: L'î le aux enfants*
.: 05/11: The Cannes film festival jury
.: 05/11: Adrien Brody is Dali in Cannes
.: 05/11: Owen Wilson in Cannes
.: 05/11: Woody Allen in Cannes*
.: 04/14: The Cannes Film Festival 2011 Jury

*in French