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Robert Eggers’ The Light­house to pre­mière at the 51st Direc­tors’ Fortnight

23 Apr 2019

Words by Adam Woodward

Monochrome image of a person drinking from a bottle
Monochrome image of a person drinking from a bottle
The Amer­i­can director’s Robert Pat­tin­son-star­ring hor­ror is head­ing to Cannes.

Any­one who’s ever attend­ed the Cannes Film Fes­ti­val knows that the Quin­zaine is where it’s at. Sit­u­at­ed just a short walk along the Croisette from where the main action takes place, the Direc­tors’ Fort­night side­bar is where dis­cern­ing cinephiles go to check out new work from vet­er­an auteurs and emerg­ing talent.

Last year’s Quin­zaine cur­tain rais­er was Gas­par Noé’s con­tro­ver­sial par­ty film Cli­max, and the open­ing film for the festival’s 51st edi­tion looks a com­par­a­tive­ly safe – although no less wacky – choice: per its offi­cial syn­op­sis, Deer­skin, from French elec­tron­ic musi­cian and some­time direc­tor Quentin Dupieux, is the sto­ry of a man ​“whose obses­sion with his design­er deer­skin jack­et caus­es him to blow his life sav­ings and turn to crime.”

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Else­where there’s a wel­come return to Cannes for Japan­ese main­stay Takashi Miike and Fil­ipino mas­ter Lav Diaz, while The Witch writer/​director Robert Eggers will unveil his hot­ly-antic­i­pat­ed sec­ond fea­ture, The Light­house, star­ring Robert Pat­tin­son and Willem Dafoe. There’s also a spot for Bertrand Bonel­lo, whose teenage ter­ror­ism thriller Noc­tura­ma was famous­ly reject­ed from Cannes three years ago. Here’s the Quin­zaine 2019 line-up in full:

Deer­skin (Quentin Dupieux)

Alice and the May­or (Nico­las Paris­er)
And Then We Danced (Lev­an Akin)
The Halt (Lav Diaz)
Dogs Don’t Wear Pants (Juk­ka-Pekka Valkeapää)
First Love (Takashi Miike)
Give Me Lib­er­ty (Kir­ill Mikhanovsky)
Ghost Trop­ic (Bas Devos)
Song With­out a Name (Meli­na León)
The Light­house (Robert Eggers)
Lil­lian (Andreas Hor­wath)
Les Par­tic­ules (Blaise Har­ri­son)
The Orphan­age (Shahrbanoo Sadat)
Blow it to Bits (Lech Kowal­s­ki)
Oleg (Juris Kur­si­etis)
An Easy Girl (Rebec­ca Zlo­tows­ki)
To Live to Sling (John­ny Ma)
Sick Sick Sick (Alice Fur­ta­do)
For the Mon­ey (Ale­jo Mogu­il­lan­sky)
Per­drix (Erwan Le Duc)
Tlames (Ala Eddine Slim)
Zom­bi Child (Bertrand Bonel­lo)
Wounds (Babak Anvari)

Yves (Benoît Forgeard)

The 51st Direc­tors’ Fort­night runs 15 – 25 May. For more info head to quin​zaine​-real​isa​teurs​.com

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