1991 Cannes Film Festival
Opening film | Homicide |
---|---|
Closing film | Thelma & Louise |
Location | Cannes, France |
Founded | 1946 |
Awards | Palme d'Or: Barton Fink[2] |
No. of films | 19 (In Competition)[3] |
Festival date | 9 May 1991 | – 20 May 1991
Website | festival-cannes |
The 44th Cannes Film Festival was held from 9 to 20 May 1991.[4] French-Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski served as jury president for the main competition.
American filmmakers Joel Coen and Ethan Coen won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, for the comedy film Barton Fink.[5][6][7]
The festival opened with Homicide by David Mamet,[8] and closed with Thelma & Louise by Ridley Scott.[9]
Juries
[edit]Main competition
[edit]- Roman Polanski, French-Polish filmmaker - Jury President[10]
- Férid Boughedir, Tunisian filmmaker
- Whoopi Goldberg, American actress
- Margaret Ménégoz, German-French producer
- Natalya Negoda, Soviet actress
- Alan Parker, British filmmaker
- Jean-Paul Rappeneau, French filmmaker
- Hans Dieter Seidel, German film critic
- Vittorio Storaro, Italian cinematographer
- Vangelis, Greek musician
Camera d'Or
[edit]- Geraldine Chaplin, American actress - Jury President[4]
- Jan Aghed, Swedish journalist
- Didier Beaudet, French
- Gilles Colpart, French film critic
- Roger Kahane, French film director
- Fernando Lara, Spanish cinephile
- Eva Sirbu, Romanian journalist
- Myriam Zemmour, French cinephile
Official selection
[edit]In Competition
[edit]The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:[3]
Un Certain Regard
[edit]The following films were selected for the Un Certain Regard section:[3]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
---|---|---|---|
Boyz n the Hood | John Singleton | United States | |
Burial of a Potato | Pogrzeb kartofla | Jan Jakub Kolski | Poland |
A Captive in the Land | Пленник земли | John Berry | Soviet Union,
United States |
The Chosen One | Ishanou | Aribam Syam Sharma | India |
Comrade Chkalov Crosses the North Pole | Переход товарища Чкалова через Северный полюс | Maksim Pezhemsky | Soviet Union |
L'entraînement du champion avant la course | Bernard Favre | France | |
Escape from the 'Liberty' Cinema | Ucieczka z kina 'Wolność' | Wojciech Marczewski | Poland |
Fire! | Ta Dona | Adama Drabo | Mali |
Friends, Comrades | Ystävät, toverit | Rauni Mollberg | Finland |
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper | United States | |
Holidays on the River Yarra | Leo Berkeley | Australia | |
In the Alleys of Love | در کوچههای عشق | Khosrow Sinai | Iran |
Lebewohl, Fremde | Tevfik Başer | Germany | |
Paths of Death and Angels | Halálutak és angyalok | Zoltán Kamondi | Hungary |
Revenge | Месть | Yermek Shinarbayev | Soviet Union |
The Tradition | Laada | Drissa Toure | Burkina Faso |
Sango Malo | Bassek Ba Kobhio | Cameroon, Burkina Faso | |
Treasure Island | L'île au trésor | Raúl Ruiz | United Kingdom, France, United States |
Woman of the Port | La mujer del puerto | Arturo Ripstein | Mexico |
Yumeji | 夢二 | Seijun Suzuki | Japan |
Out of Competition
[edit]The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[3]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
---|---|---|---|
Le film du cinéma suisse | Michel Soutter and Jean-François Amiguet | Switzerland | |
Jacquot de Nantes | Agnès Varda | France | |
Life Stinks | Mel Brooks | United States | |
Madonna: Truth or Dare | Alek Keshishian | ||
Prospero's Books | Peter Greenaway | United Kingdom, Netherlands, France, Italy, Japan | |
Rhapsody in August | 八月の狂詩曲 | Akira Kurosawa | Japan |
Thelma & Louise (closing film) | Ridley Scott | United States |
Short Films Competition
[edit]The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:[3]
- Broken Skin by Anna Campion
- Casino by Gil Bauwens
- Les éffaceurs by Gérald Frydman
- Ja, Wałęsa by Jacek Skalski
- Mal de blocs by Marc Saint-Pierre, Nathalie Saint-Gelais
- La Noce by Régis Obadia, Joëlle Bouvier
- Nokturno by Nikola Majdak
- Push Comes to Shove by Bill Plympton
- La vie selon Luc by Jean-Paul Civeyrac
- W.A.L. by Robert Turlo
- With Hands Raised (Z podniesionymi rekami) by Mitko Panov
Parallel sections
[edit]International Critics' Week
[edit]The following films were screened for the 30th International Critics' Week (30e Semaine de la Critique):[11]
Feature film competition
- Diabły, diabły by Dorota Kędzierzawska (Poland)
- Laafi - Tout va bien by S. Pierre Yameogo (Burkina Faso)
- Liquid Dreams by Mark S. Manos (United States)
- Robert's Movie by Canan Gerede (Turkey)
- Sam & Me by Deepa Mehta (Canada)
- Trumpet Number 7 by Adrian Velicescu (United States)
- La Vie des morts by Arnaud Desplechin (France)
- Young Soul Rebels by Isaac Julien (United Kingdom)
Short film competition
- Carne by Gaspar Noé (France)
- Die mysreriosen lebenslinien by David Rühm (Austria)
- Livraison à domicile by Claude Philippot (France)
- A Nice Arrangement by Gurinder Chadha (United Kingdom)
- Once Upon a Time by Kristian Petri (Sweden)
- Petit drame dans la vie d’une femme by Andrée Pelletier (Canada)
- Une Symphonie du havre by Barbara Doran (Canada)
Directors' Fortnight
[edit]The following films were screened for the 1991 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):[12]
- The Adjuster by Atom Egoyan
- Annabelle partagée by Francesca Comencini
- The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez by Peter Sellars
- Chichkhan by Fadhel Jaïbi, M. Ben Mahmoud
- Danzón by Maria Novaro
- O Drapetis by Lefteris Xanthopoulos
- És mégis... by Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács
- An Imaginary Tale (Une histoire inventée) by André Forcier
- The Indian Runner by Sean Penn
- Lost In Siberia by Alexander Mitta
- Ovo Malo Duse by Ademir Kenović
- Paris Trout by Stephen Gyllenhaal
- Proof by Jocelyn Moorhouse
- Adam's Rib by Vyacheslav Krishtofovich
- Riff-Raff by Ken Loach
- Toto the Hero (Toto le héros) by Jaco Van Dormael
- Suffocating Heat (Caldo soffocante) by Giovanna Gagliardo
- Short films
- Le Caire by Youssef Chahine
Official Awards
[edit]In Competition
[edit]- Palme d'Or: Barton Fink by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen[13]
- Grand Prize of the Jury: La Belle Noiseuse by Jacques Rivette
- Best Director: Joel Coen for Barton Fink
- Best Actress: Irène Jacob for The Double Life of Veronique
- Best Actor: John Turturro for Barton Fink
- Best Supporting Actor: Samuel L. Jackson for Jungle Fever
- Jury Prize:
- Toto le Héros by Jaco Van Dormael[2]
- Special Mention:
- With Hands Raised by Mitko Panov
- Special Jury Prize: Push Comes to Shove by Bill Plympton
Independent Awards
[edit]- The Double Life of Veronique by Krzysztof Kieślowski (In competition)[15]
- Riff-Raff by Ken Loach (Directors' Fortnight)
Commission Supérieure Technique
[edit]- The Double Life of Veronique by Krzysztof Kieślowski[16]
- Special Mention:
Award of the Youth
[edit]- Foreign Film: Toto le Héros by Jaco Van Dormael[14]
- French Film: Cheb by Rachid Bouchareb
International Critics' Week
[edit]- SACD Award:
- Best Short: Carne by Gaspar Noé[14]
- Best Feature: Young Soul Rebels by Isaac Julien
References
[edit]- ^ "Posters 1991". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 14 December 2013.
- ^ a b "Awards 1991: All Awards". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 26 August 2014.
- ^ a b c d e "Official Selection 1991: All the Selection". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 14 December 2013.
- ^ a b "44ème Festival International du Film - Cannes". cinema-francais.fr (in French). Retrieved 7 June 2017.
- ^ Canby, Vincent (21 May 1991). "'Barton Fink' Wins the Top Prize And 2 Others at Cannes Festival". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
- ^ "Coen Brothers' "Barton Fink" Wins Golden Palm At Cannes". Deseret News. Archived from the original on 29 November 2017. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
- ^ "American Film Wins At Cannes, But Madonna Comes A Cropper". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Archived from the original on 18 December 2013.
- ^ "The Cinematic Carnival Of Cannes". Retrieved 25 May 2017.
- ^ "'Barton Fink' Makes History At Cannes Fest". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
- ^ "Juries 1991: Feature film". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 15 April 2016.
- ^ "30e Selecion de la Semaine de la Critique - 1991". archives.semainedelacritique.com. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
- ^ "Quinzaine 1991". quinzaine-realisateurs.com. Archived from the original on 13 February 2018. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
- ^ "1991 - Le Jury, Les Prix". cannes-fest.com (in French). Retrieved 7 June 2017.
- ^ a b c d "Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1991". imdb.com. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
- ^ "FIPRESCI Awards 1991". fipresci.org. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
- ^ "Jury Œcuménique 1991". cannes.juryoecumenique.org. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
Media
[edit]- INA: Robert Mitchum opens the 1991 Festival (commentary in French)
- INA: List of winners of the 1991 festival (commentary in French)
External links
[edit]- 1991 Cannes Film Festival (web.archive)
- Official website Retrospective 1991 Archived 2019-05-04 at the Wayback Machine
- Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1991 at Internet Movie Database