Duration: May 14 - 25 Venue: Various Country: France Edition: 56th/2003 Web: Official Site

Plume Noire is at Cannes. Read about the winners of the festival and check out our reviews; from our 2 correspondents.
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GOLDEN PALM: Elephant Freely inspired by the tragedy of Colombine, this relentless fiction directed by Gus Van Sant is a masterpiece of mise-en-scène.  A Plume Noire Pick [Click here for the other Cannes festival awards]

The Barbarian Invasions Sixteen years after the release of The Decline of the American Empire, the first Québecois film to attract an international audience, Denys Arcand revives his characters in The Barbarian Invasions, a humorous, cynical and heart-warming drama that mocks the shadow of death.

At Five in the Afternoon Iranian filmmaker Samira Makhmalbaf's third film, At 5 in the Afternoon, joins the segment she directed for the film 11'09'01, offering a pessimistic report on women in Afghan society. Bright Future Bright Future, an unclassifiable object by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, is a cross of a fable, social drama and the fantastic. The Brown Bunny Five years after Buffalo 66, his first very successful and very promising full-length film, Vincent Gallo returns on the screen with the long awaited The Brown Bunny, a film which could just as easily have been called the "Turkey Farce". Carandiru Adaptation of a best-seller by Drauzio Varella, Carandiru proposes diving into the heart of Sao Paulo's prison, guided by a humanist doctor who's fond of the prisoners. Distant Distant, the third film by Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, paints a bitter but joyful portrait of a country struck by crisis.  A Plume Noire Pick Dogville A true homage to the stripped theater of Bertolt Brecht, Dogville draws its force from faultless acting and writing, served by a mise-en-scène whose genius lies in the capacity to renew a style, avoiding the sketches pre-established by the director in his preceding filmography.  A Plume Noire Pick Elephant Freely inspired by the tragedy of Colombine, this relentless fiction directed by Gus Van Sant is a masterpiece of mise-en-scène.  A Plume Noire Pick Mystic River While certain authors surprise us this year through the providential regeneration of their cinema, unfortunately the opposite tendency prevails with Clint Eastwood. Swimming Pool With Swimming Pool, director François Ozon has touched bottom. The Tulse Luper Suitcases With The Tulse Luper suitcases, the "epic" of a man whose adventures embrace almost an entire century, Peter Greenaway sins by excess of ambition.

American Splendor Exceeding the "biopic" to explore more experimental regions, American Splendor pays homage to Harvey Pekar, a major figure of American underground culture. Young Adam The adaptation of a novel by Alexander Trocchi, a figure of the Beat generation, David Mac Kenzie's Young Adam slowly sails on turbid water, carrying in its wake some characters stuck in lives with hopeless futures. Off the Map For his second film behind the camera actor/director Campbell Scott, invites the audience to a strange universe where emotion rhymes with poetry and dream. Fanfan la Tulipe A remake of a Christian-Jaque film shot in 1952, this Fanfan la Tulipe, from the Luc Besson stable, has neither the epic dimension, nor the panache of the original version. The Matrix Reloaded Once past the glossy surface of the film, one notes that the Wachowski brothers created a film with two levels, just like the world in which the protagonists evolve. The Soul of a Man A segment of The Blues, an enthusiastic series dedicated to that genre, The Soul of a Man is a documentary directed by Wim Wenders that becomes attached to three outstanding performers of this music, starting with Blind Willie Johnson, a matchless blind Texan singer and guitarist. Gozu Freud himself would have given up deciphering Gozu, a narrative mix where a yakuza, at his life's end, starts to exterminate chihuahuas, convinced that the poor animals have fomented the destruction of his fellow human beings.

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