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The article Cannes 2013 lineup: a programme of heavy-hitters and unexpected gems written by Peter Bradshaw was publiched in the Guardian on April, 18. The article reports at length that the 2013 Cannes Film Festival is going to be extraordinary one.


It's an open secret that in recent years Cannes has consolidated its primacy among the film festivals of the world. More than the first cuckoo, the announcement of the Cannes competition list is the first sign of spring. Speaking of major entries in competition they are Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac, Steve McQueen's Twelve Years a Slave, Stephen Frears's Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight. There is the expected parade of heavy-hitters and some former Palme d'Or-winners: Roman Polanski, Nicolas Winding Refn, Paolo Sorrentino, Steven Soderbergh, Alexander Payne, Joel and Ethan Coen, François Ozon, Takashi Miike, Hirokazu Kore-eda, James Gray, Abdellatif Kechiche and Asghar Farhadi.

There is a lot of comment on the competition openers. Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby features Leonardo DiCaprio as the charismatic and mysterious Gatsby himself. The opener for the Un Certain Regard sidebar section — the "alternative" selection Cannes purists whimsically insist is the soul of the festival itself — is Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring. And the sexiest and most hotly anticipated choice in competition without a doubt is Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives, starring Ryan Gosling and Kristin Scott Thomas. It is necessary to emphasize that Cannes 2013 is a great festival for Japan, and two very different Japanese auteurs are represented - Takashi Miike's Straw Shield and Hirokazu Kore-eda's Like Father Like Son. One of the hottest tickets in competition must surely be Steven Soderbergh's Behind the Candelabra, an HBO project that has blossomed into feature-film status. If ever there was a director who owed his position to Cannes it is James Gray, an American auteur that this festival has doggedly promoted – but whose prestige at Cannes has never quite translated elsewhere. The actor-writer-artist James Franco is appearing at Cannes as a director, with his As I Lay Dying, a version of the William Faulkner novel, adapted by Franco himself. And many others famous celebrities will appear at the ceremony Cannes 2013.

The article draws a conclusion that we see  a fascinating festival lineup, and as ever the best stuff will almost certainly be the unheralded movies that we don't even realise are there.

As for me, as a film-lover, this artile is a good chance to get to know the last news from Cannes. The 2013 Cannes Film Festival will take place from May 15 to May 26, 2013. The President of the Jury will be American film director Steven Spielberg.