Robin Hood is the chosen film to open the 63rd Cannes Festival on 12th May 2010. The epic blockbuster directed by Ridley Scott, starring Russell Crowe, has the honour of kicking off this highly revered (and fashionable!) two week festival.
It is rumoured that the programme will be announced on 16th April. But in the meantime we are all kept guessing as to the winners of the prestigious Palme d’Or and Grand Prix awards. The 2009 winners were The White Ribbon (Palme d’Or) and A Prophet (Grand Prix) both of which are reviewed on this site.
Terrence Malick‘s film Tree of Life is hotly tipped for the Palme d’Or award this year. Tree of Life sprang from a project Malick was working on in the late 1970s, called Q, which was reportedly going to combine drama set in World War I with a prehistoric sequence featuring a Minotaur sleeping in the water and dreaming about evolution of the universe from the Big Bang to the present day. The film has finally been made starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn (Brad Pitt replacing the late Heath Ledger) about a boy’s journey from the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as a “lost soul in the modern world”, and into his quest to regain meaning in life. The film opens later this year.
Other contenders in this year’s line-up include Woody Allen’s You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Oliver Stone’s sequel to his 1987 blockbuster.
The president of the jury is the curious director Tim Burton so it’s anyone’s guess!
More info to follow in the coming weeks…
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