What To Watch At Cannes

6 months ago 13th May 14:28

It's hard to believe that it's the Cannes Film Festival time of year again as films from around the world compete for the Palme d'Or.

Last year Hollywood breezed in in the form of Kung Fu Panda, Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull and Changeling as well as hard hitting movies such as Waltz with Bashir which stunned audiences and critics.

But it was The Class that went away with top honours. So FemaleFirst takes a look at what you should be watching, or looking out for over the coming months.

- Inglorious Basterds

Quentin Tarantino's return to Cannes and the In Competition category was the early talk of the festival as he shows off his new movie Inglorious Basterds.

With a cast list that includes Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger and Michael Fassbender Inglorious Basterds begins in German-occupied France, where Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent) witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz).

Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris, where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema. Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) organizes a group of Jewish soldiers to engage in targeted acts of retribution.

Known to their enemy as "The Basterds," Raine's squad joins German actress and undercover agent Bridget Von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) on a mission to take down the leaders of The Third Reich.

- Fish Tank

Fish Tank is a second movie for Michael Fassbender, who shot to fame and acclaim last year in Hunger as Bobby Sands, in Fish Tank.

This is the highly anticipated next movie by director Andrea Arnold after critical hit Red Road and is one of the UK's entries in the category.

The movie follows fifteen year old Mia whose life is turned upside down when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.

- Looking For Eric

Cannes Film Festival veteran Ken Loach, who won the award in 2006 for the film 'The Wind That Shakes The Barley', is back with Looking for Eric, which stars a certain Eric Cantona.

Looking for Eric follows Eric, a postman whose life is slipping through his own fingers...

His chaotic family, his wild stepsons, and the cement mixer in the front garden don’t help, but it is Eric’s own secret that drives him to the brink.

Can he face Lily, the woman he once loved?  Despite outrageous efforts and misplaced goodwill from his football fan mates, Eric continues to sink.

In desperate times it takes a spliff and a special friend to challenge Eric to journey into the most perilous territory of all - the past.

As a certain Frenchman says, 'He who is afraid to throw the dice, will never throw a six.'

- Los Abrazos Rotos (Broken Embraces)

Broken Embraces is another highly anticipated movie as Oscar winner Penelope Cruz reunites with filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, who last worked together on Volver.

Reminiscent of 1950s hard-boiled American film noir, Broken Embraces follows a four-way tale of dangerous love, set between the 1990s and present day.

A man writes, lives and loves in darkness. Fourteen years before, he was in a brutal car crash on the island of Lanzarote. In the accident, he didn’t lose only his sight, he also lost Lena, the love of his life.