Cannes is still the world’s most glamorous film festival and BOFA 2016 brings you six of the best features from this year’s Cannes Festival including two of the major Cannes award-winners:
GRADUATION (BACALAUREAT)
CANNES CO-WINNER – BEST DIRECTOR – CRISTIAN MUNGIU
Directed by Romanian Cristian Mungiu, who previously won the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival, for 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007), Graduation was described by The Guardian as “a masterly, complex movie of psychological subtlety and moral weight”, and “a jewel in this exceptionally good Cannes lineup”.
Romeo Aldea , a physician living in a small mountain town in Transylvania, has raised his daughter Eliza with the idea that once she turns 18, she will leave to study and live abroad, but, on the day before her first written exam, Eliza is assaulted in an attack that could jeopardize her entire future. Now Romeo has to make a decision. There are ways of solving the situation, but none of them using the principles he, as a father, has taught his daughter. Fatherly love leads him into the world of corruption that he wants his daughter to escape.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13 TRAMSHEDS THEATRE 11.45 am – 2.00pm
THE SALESMAN (FORUSHANDE)
CANNES FESTIVAL 2016 BEST SCREENPLAY
Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s 2011 film, A Separation, became a sensation. Critically acclaimed around the world, it won a Golden Globe, a Cesar Award and ultimately the Academy Award as Best Foreign Film in 2012. His new film is a masterfully tense and emotionally complex examination of anger, fear, guilt and revenge. Emad and Rana, a young married couple, move into a new flat, not realising the previous tenant was a prostitute. Thinking it is Emad, Rana lets a stranger into the house and the assault that follows opens a rift between the couple as Rana seeks solitude and Emad seeks revenge. Set against a production of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman in which Emad and Rana appear as Willy and Linda Loman, this is an unflinching examination of a marriage pushed to its limits and the frailties of Iranian society and gender politics.
Variety described The Salesman as “saturated with emotional intrigue……tense and devastating.”
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12 TRAMSHEDS THEATRE 12noon – 2.15pm