1999 Cannes Film Festival
The 52nd Cannes Film Festival was held from 12 to 23 May 1999.[4] Canadian filmmaker, actor and author David Cronenberg was the Jury President. The Palme d'Or went to the French–Belgian film Rosetta by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne.[5][6]
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Opening film | The Barber of Siberia |
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Closing film | An Ideal Husband |
Location | Cannes, France |
Founded | 1946 |
Awards | Palme d'Or (Rosetta)[2] |
Hosted by | Kristin Scott Thomas |
No. of films | 22 (En Competition)[3] 23 (Un Certain Regard) 8 (Out of Competition) 20 (Cinéfondation) 12 (Short Film) |
Festival date | 12 May 1999 – 23 May 1999 |
Website | festival-cannes |
The festival opened with The Barber of Siberia, directed by Nikita Mikhalkov and closed with An Ideal Husband, directed by Oliver Parker.[7][8] Kristin Scott Thomas was the mistress of ceremonies.[9]
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Juries
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Main competition
The following people were appointed as the Jury for the feature films of the 1999 Official Selection:[11]
- David Cronenberg (Canada) Jury President
- André Téchiné (France)
- Barbara Hendricks (Sweden)
- Dominique Blanc (France)
- Doris Dörrie (Germany)
- George Miller (Australia)
- Holly Hunter (United States)
- Jeff Goldblum (United States)
- Maurizio Nichetti (Italy)
- Yasmina Reza (France)
Un Certain Regard
The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1999 Un Certain Regard:
- Lambert Wilson (actor) President
- Irène Bignardi (critic)
- Annie Coppermann (critic)
- Thierry Gandillot (critic)
- Jonathan Romney (critic)
- Laurent Tirard (director)
Cinéfondation and short films
The following people were appointed as the Jury of the Cinéfondation and short films competition:
- Thomas Vinterberg (director) President
- Cédric Klapisch (director)
- Virginie Ledoyen (actress)
- Walter Salles (director)
- Greta Scacchi (actress)
Camera d'Or
The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1999 Camera d'Or:
- Michel Piccoli (actor) President
- Peter Von Bagh (film historian, director)
- Jean-Pierre Beauviala
- Cherifa Chabane (critic)
- Caroline Champetier (cinematographer)
- Paola Malanga (critic)
- José Maria Riba (critic)
- Marie Vermillard (director)
Official selection
In competition – Feature film
The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:[3]
- 8½ Women by Peter Greenaway
- All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre) by Pedro Almodóvar
- Cradle Will Rock by Tim Robbins
- The Emperor and the Assassin (Jing Ke ci Qin Wang) by Chen Kaige
- Felicia's Journey by Atom Egoyan
- Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai by Jim Jarmusch
- Humanité (L'humanité) by Bruno Dumont
- Kadosh by Amos Gitai
- Kikujiro (Kikujirô no natsu) by Takeshi Kitano
- The Letter (La lettre) by Manoel de Oliveira
- Limbo by John Sayles
- Love Will Tear Us Apart (Tin seung yan gaan) by Nelson Yu Lik-wai
- Moloch (Molokh) by Alexander Sokurov
- The Nanny (La balia) by Marco Bellocchio
- No One Writes to the Colonel (El coronel no tiene quien le escriba) by Arturo Ripstein
- Our Happy Lives (Nos vies heureuses) by Jacques Maillot
- Pola X by Leos Carax
- Rosetta by Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
- The Straight Story by David Lynch
- Tales of Kish (Ghessé hayé kish) by Abolfazl Jalili, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Nasser Taghvai
- Time Regained (Le temps retrouvé, d'après l'oeuvre de Marcel Proust) by Raúl Ruiz
- Wonderland by Michael Winterbottom
Un Certain Regard
The following films were selected for the competition of Un Certain Regard:[3]
- As Bodas de Deus by João César Monteiro
- Away with Words by Christopher Doyle
- Beautiful People by Jasmin Dizdar
- Beresina, or the Last Days of Switzerland (Beresina oder Die letzten Tage der Schweiz) by Daniel Schmid
- Genesis (La genèse) by Cheick Oumar Sissoko
- Harem Suare by Ferzan Özpetek
- If I Give You my Humbleness, Don't Take Away my Pride by Karin Westerlund
- Judy Berlin by Eric Mendelsohn
- Kaizokuban Bootleg Film by Masahiro Kobayashi
- March of Happiness (Tian ma cha fang) by Lin Cheng-sheng
- Nadia and the Hippos (Nadia et les hippopotames) by Dominique Cabrera
- New Dawn (Peau neuve) by Émilie Deleuze
- Olympic Garage (Garage Olimpo) by Marco Bechis
- The Other (L'autre) by Youssef Chahine
- The Passengers (Les passagers) by Jean-Claude Guiguet
- The Personals (Zheng hun qi shi) by Chen Kuo-fu
- Ratcatcher by Lynne Ramsay
- The Shade by Raphael Nadjari
- Sicilia! by Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
- So Close to Paradise by Wang Xiaoshuai
- Throne of Death (Marana Simhasanam) by Murali Nair
- Vanaprastham by Shaji N. Karun
- The Winslow Boy by David Mamet
Films out of competition
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[3]
- The Barber of Siberia by Nikita Mikhalkov
- Dogma by Kevin Smith
- EDtv by Ron Howard
- Entrapment by Jon Amiel (Special screening)[12]
- Farewell, Home Sweet Home (Adieu, plancher des vaches!) by Otar Iosseliani
- An Ideal Husband by Oliver Parker
- The Limey by Steven Soderbergh
- My Best Fiend (Mein liebster Feind) by Werner Herzog
Cinéfondation
The following films were selected for the competition of Cinéfondation:[3]
- Baballoon (Babalon) by Michal Zabka
- Cambi e Scambi by Donata Pizzato
- The Clock by Noah Laracy
- Dimanche by Fabrice Aragno
- The Execution by Lee In-Kyun
- Fish 073 (Ryba 073) by Vaclav Svankmajer
- Germania by Kris Krikellis
- Im Hukim (With Rules) by Dover Kosashvili
- Inter-View by Jessica Hausner
- Ked Nie, Tak Nie by Vladimir Kral
- Layover by Shen Ko-Shang
- Der Linkshander by Iouri Kouzine
- Little Big Dog (En God Dag At Go) by Bo Hagen Clausen
- Milk by Mairi Cameron
- La Puce by Emmanuelle Bercot
- Runt by Jesse Lawrence
- Second Hand by Emily Young
- Waxandwane by Axel Koenzen
- Wojtek by David Turner
- Yumeji Ningyo (Doll of Dreams) by Yamazaki Tatsuji
Short film competition
The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:[3]
- The Cookie Thief by Hugo Currie, Toby Leslie
- Devil Doll by Jarl Olsen
- An Eternity by Daehyun Kim
- Food for Thought by John Paton, Matthew Ross
- Husk by Jerry Handler
- Le Pique-Nique by Il-Gon Song
- Rien Dire by Vincent Pérez (France)
- Roulette by Roberto Santiago
- Simultaneity by Seong Sook Kim
- Stop by Rodolphe Marconi
- When the Day Breaks by Amanda Forbis, Wendy Tilby
Parallel sections
International Critics' Week
The following films were screened for the 38th International Critics' Week (38e Semaine de la Critique):[13]
Feature film competition
- 7/25 Nana-ni-go by Wataru Hayakawa (Japan)
- Flores de otro mundo by Icíar Bollaín (Spain)
- Hold Back the Night by Phil Davis (United Kingdom)
- On Board (Gemide) by Serdar Akar (Turkey)
- Siam Sunset by John Polson (Australia)
- Strange Fits of Passion by Elise McCredie (Australia)
- The White Suit (Belo odelo) by Lazar Ristovski (FR Yugoslavia)
Short film competition
- The Circle (Dayereh) by Mohammad Shirvani (Iran)
- Dérapages by Pascal Adant (Belgium)
- Fuzzy Logic by Tom Krueger (United States)
- The Good Son by Sean McGuire (United Kingdom)
- La Leçon du jour by Irène Sohm (France)
- More by Mark Osborne (United States)
- Shoes Off! by Mark Sawers (Canada)
Directors' Fortnight
The following films were screened for the 1999 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):[14]
- A mort la mort ! by Romain Goupil
- Agnes Browne by Anjelica Huston
- The Blair Witch Project by Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez
- Le Bleu des villes by Stéphane Brizé
- Charisma by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Un château en Espagne by Delphine Gleize
- Les Convoyeurs attendent by Benoît Mariage
- The Cup (Phörpa) by Khyentse Norbu
- Darkness and Light (Hei An Zhi Guang) by Chang Tso-Chi
- East Is East by Damien O'Donnell
- El entusiasmo by Ricardo Larraín
- Fever by Alex Winter
- The Five Senses by Jeremy Podeswa
- Haut les cœurs! by Sólveig Anspach
- Kiemas by Valdas Navasaitis
- The Last September by Deborah Warner
- M/Other by Nobuhiro Suwa
- Qui plume la lune ? by Christine Carrière
- Scenery by Zhao Jisong
- Sud by Chantal Akerman
- Summer of Sam by Spike Lee
- The Virgin Suicides by Sofia Coppola
- The War Zone by Tim Roth
- Voyages by Emmanuel Finkiel
- Wege in die Nacht by Andreas Kleinert
- Short films
- Le Franc by Djibril Diop Mambety (45 min.)
- Marée haute by Caroline Champetier (17 min.)
- Un petit air de fête by Eric Guirado (35 min.)
- La Petite Vendeuse de Soleil (or The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun) by Djibril Diop Mambety (45 min.)
- Le Premier pas by Florence Vignon (23 min.)
- La Tentation de l'innocence by Fabienne Godet (43 min.)
- O Trouble by Sylvia Calle (10 min.)
Awards
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Official awards
The following films and people received the 1999 Official selection awards:[2][5]
In Competition
- Palme d'Or: Rosetta by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
- Grand Prize of the Jury: L'humanité by Bruno Dumont
- Best Director: Pedro Almodóvar for Todo sobre mi madre
- Best Screenplay: Molokh by Yuri Arabov
- Best Actress:
- Best Actor: Emmanuel Schotté for L'humanité
- Jury Prize: La lettre by Manoel de Oliveira
Un Certain Regard
- Un Certain Regard Award: Beautiful People by Jasmin Dizdar
Cinéfondation
- First Prize: Second Hand by [[Emily Young (film director)}]]
- Second Prize: Im Hukim by Dover Koshashvili & La puce by Emmanuelle Bercot
- Third Prize: Little Big Dog (En God Dag At Go) by Bo Hagen Clausen
- Special Mention: Inter-View by Jessica Hausner
Golden Camera
Short Films
- Short Film Palme d'Or: When the Day Breaks by Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis
- Jury Prize: Stop by Rodolphe Marconi & Le Pique-Nique by Il-Gon Song
Independent awards
FIPRESCI Prizes[15]
- Peau neuve by Émilie Deleuze (In competition)
- M/Other by Nobuhiro Suwa (Directors' Fortnight)
Commission Supérieure Technique
- Technical Grand Prize: Juhua Tu (production design) in The Emperor and the Assassin (Jing Ke ci Qin Wang)
Ecumenical Jury[16]
- Prize of the Ecumenical Jury: Todo sobre mi madre by Pedro Almodóvar
- Ecumenical Jury – Special Mention: Rosetta by Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Award of the Youth[17]
- Foreign Film: The Blair Witch Project by Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez
- French Film: Voyages by Emmanuel Finkiel
Awards in the frame of International Critics' Week[17]
- Mercedes-Benz Award: Flores de otro mundo (Flowers from Another World) by Icíar Bollaín
- Canal+ Award: Shoes Off! by Mark Sawers
- Grand Golden Rail: Siam Sunset by John Polson
- Little Golden Rail: Derapages by Pascal Adant
Awards in the frame of Directors' Fortnight[17]
- Kodak Short Film Award: Un petit air de fête by Eric Guirado
- Kodak Short Film Award – Special Mention Ô trouble by Sylvia Calle
- C.I.C.A.E. Award: Qui plume la lune? (Who Plucked the Feathers Off the Moon?) by Christine Carrière
- Gras Savoye Award: Un château en Espagne (A Castle in Spain) by Delphine Gleize
Association Prix François Chalais
- François Chalais Award: The Other (L'autre) by Youssef Chahine
- The members of the Jury for the 1999 Official Selection competition
References
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- "Awards 1999: All Awards". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 6 February 2015.
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- Wilmington, Michael (30 May 1999). "Cannes Of Vinegar". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
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- "All Juries 1999". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
- "Special screenings". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
- "38e Selecion de la Semaine de la Critique - 1999". archives.semainedelacritique.com. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
- "Quinzaine 1999". quinzaine-realisateurs.com. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
- "FIPRESCI Awards 1999". fipresci.org. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
- "Jury Œcuménique 1999". cannes.juryoecumenique.org. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
- "Cannes Film Festival Awards 1999". imdb.com. Retrieved 24 June 2017.
Media
- INA: Opening of the 1999 Festival (commentary in French)
- INA: List of winners of the 1999 festival (commentary in French)
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