1999 Cannes Film Festival

1999 Cannes Film Festival
The 52nd Cannes Film Festival was held from 12 to 23 May 1999. 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.
The festival opened with The Barber of Siberia, directed by Nikita Mikhalkov and closed with An Ideal Husband, directed by Oliver Parker. Kristin Scott Thomas was the mistress of ceremonies.
Juries
Main competition
The following people were appointed as the Jury for the feature films of the 1999 Official Selection:
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:
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:
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:
The Barber of Siberia by Nikita Mikhalkov
Dogma by Kevin Smith
EDtv by Ron Howard
Entrapment by Jon Amiel (Special screening)
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:
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 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:
Billy's Balloon by Don Hertzfeldt
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):
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):
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
Paths in the Night 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
Official awards
The following films and people received the 1999 Official selection awards:
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:
Séverine Caneele for L'humanité
Émilie Dequenne for Rosetta
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
Second Prize: Im Hukim by Dover Koshashvili & La puce by Emmanuelle Bercot
Third Prize: Little Big Dog by Bo Hagen Clausen
Special Mention: Inter-View by Jessica Hausner
Golden Camera
Caméra d'Or: Marana Simhasanam by Murali Nair
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
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
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
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
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
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 ? by Christine Carrière
Gras Savoye Award: Un château en Espagne by Delphine Gleize
Association Prix François Chalais
François Chalais Award: The Other (L'autre) by Youssef Chahine
References
Media
INA: Opening of the 1999 Festival (commentary in French)
INA: List of winners of the 1999 festival (commentary in French)
External links
1999 Cannes Film Festival (web.archive)
Official website Retrospective 1999
Cannes Film Festival Awards 1999 at Internet Movie Database
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