1991 Cannes Film Festival

1991 Cannes Film Festival
	Official poster of the 44th Cannes Film Festival, an original illustration by Philippe and Pascal Lemoine.
Opening film	Homicide
Closing film	Thelma & Louise
Location	Cannes, France
Founded	1946
Awards	Palme d'Or:; Barton Fink
No. of films	19 (In Competition)
Festival date	9 May 1991 – 20 May 1991
Website	festival-cannes.com/en
Cannes Film Festival
	1992 1990

The 44th Cannes Film Festival was held from 9 to 20 May 1991.^[4] French-Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski served as jury president for the main competition.

American filmmakers Joel Coen and Ethan Coen won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, for the comedy film Barton Fink.^[5]^[6]^[7]

The festival opened with Homicide by David Mamet,^[8] and closed with Thelma & Louise by Ridley Scott.^[9]

Juries

Main competition

Roman Polanski, French-Polish filmmaker - Jury President^[10]
Férid Boughedir, Tunisian filmmaker
Whoopi Goldberg, American actress
Margaret Ménégoz, German-French producer
Natalya Negoda, Soviet actress
Alan Parker, British filmmaker
Jean-Paul Rappeneau, French filmmaker
Hans Dieter Seidel, German film critic
Vittorio Storaro, Italian cinematographer
Vangelis, Greek musician

Camera d'Or

Geraldine Chaplin, American actress - Jury President^[4]
Jan Aghed, Swedish journalist
Didier Beaudet, French
Gilles Colpart, French film critic
Roger Kahane, French film director
Fernando Lara, Spanish cinephile
Eva Sirbu, Romanian journalist
Myriam Zemmour, French cinephile

Official selection

In Competition

The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:^[3]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production Country
The Assassin of the Tsar	Цареубийца	Karen Shakhnazarov	Soviet Union
Anna Karamazoff	Анна Карамазофф	Rustam Khamdamov	Soviet Union
Barton Fink		Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	United States
La Belle Noiseuse		Jacques Rivette	France, Switzerland
Bix		Pupi Avati	Italy
Cold Moon	Lune froide	Patrick Bouchitey	France
The Double Life of Veronique	La double vie de Véronique	Krzysztof Kieślowski	Poland, France, Norway
Europa		Lars von Trier	Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland
The Flesh	La carne	Marco Ferreri	Italy
Guilty by Suspicion		Irwin Winkler	United States, France
Homicide (opening film)		David Mamet	United States
Jungle Fever		Spike Lee	United States
Life on a String	边走边唱	Chen Kaige	China
Malina		Werner Schroeter	Germany, Austria
Out of Life	Hors la vie	Maroun Bagdadi	France
A Rage in Harlem		Bill Duke	United States
The Suspended Step of the Stork	Το Mετέωρο Bήμα Tου Πελαργού	Theo Angelopoulos	Greece
Van Gogh		Maurice Pialat	France
The Yes Man	Il portaborse	Daniele Luchetti	Italy

Un Certain Regard

The following films were selected for the Un Certain Regard section:^[3]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production Country
Boyz n the Hood		John Singleton	United States
Burial of a Potato	Pogrzeb kartofla	Jan Jakub Kolski	Poland
A Captive in the Land	Пленник земли	John Berry	Soviet Union, United States
The Chosen One	Ishanou	Aribam Syam Sharma	India
Comrade Chkalov Crosses the North Pole	Переход товарища Чкалова через Северный полюс	Maksim Pezhemsky	Soviet Union
L'entraînement du champion avant la course		Bernard Favre	France
Escape from the 'Liberty' Cinema	Ucieczka z kina 'Wolność'	Wojciech Marczewski	Poland
Fire!	Ta Dona	Adama Drabo	Mali
Friends, Comrades	Ystävät, toverit	Rauni Mollberg	Finland
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse		Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper	United States
Holidays on the River Yarra		Leo Berkeley	Australia
In the Alleys of Love	در کوچه‌های عشق	Khosrow Sinai	Iran
Lebewohl, Fremde		Tevfik Başer	Germany
Paths of Death and Angels	Halálutak és angyalok	Zoltán Kamondi	Hungary
Revenge	Месть	Yermek Shinarbayev	Soviet Union
The Tradition	Laada	Drissa Toure	Burkina Faso
Sango Malo		Bassek Ba Kobhio	Cameroon, Burkina Faso
Treasure Island	L'île au trésor	Raúl Ruiz	United Kingdom, France, United States
Woman of the Port	La mujer del puerto	Arturo Ripstein	Mexico
Yumeji	夢二	Seijun Suzuki	Japan

Out of Competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:^[3]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production Country
Le film du cinéma suisse		Michel Soutter and Jean-François Amiguet	Switzerland
Jacquot de Nantes		Agnès Varda	France
Life Stinks		Mel Brooks	United States
Madonna: Truth or Dare		Alek Keshishian	United States
Prospero's Books		Peter Greenaway	United Kingdom, Netherlands, France, Italy, Japan
Rhapsody in August	八月の狂詩曲	Akira Kurosawa	Japan
Thelma & Louise (closing film)		Ridley Scott	United States

Short Films Competition

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:^[3]

Broken Skin by Anna Campion
Casino by Gil Bauwens
Les éffaceurs by Gérald Frydman
Ja, Wałęsa by Jacek Skalski
Mal de blocs by Marc Saint-Pierre, Nathalie Saint-Gelais
La Noce by Régis Obadia, Joëlle Bouvier
Nokturno by Nikola Majdak
Push Comes to Shove by Bill Plympton
La vie selon Luc by Jean-Paul Civeyrac
W.A.L. by Robert Turlo
With Hands Raised (Z podniesionymi rekami) by Mitko Panov

Parallel sections

International Critics' Week

The following films were screened for the 30th International Critics' Week (30e Semaine de la Critique):^[11]

Feature film competition

Diabły, diabły by Dorota Kędzierzawska (Poland)
Laafi - Tout va bien by S. Pierre Yameogo (Burkina Faso)
Liquid Dreams by Mark S. Manos (United States)
Robert's Movie by Canan Gerede (Turkey)
Sam & Me by Deepa Mehta (Canada)
Trumpet Number 7 by Adrian Velicescu (United States)
La Vie des morts by Arnaud Desplechin (France)
Young Soul Rebels by Isaac Julien (United Kingdom)

Short film competition

Carne by Gaspar Noé (France)
Die mysreriosen lebenslinien by David Rühm (Austria)
Livraison à domicile by Claude Philippot (France)
A Nice Arrangement by Gurinder Chadha (United Kingdom)
Once Upon a Time by Kristian Petri (Sweden)
Petit drame dans la vie d’une femme by Andrée Pelletier (Canada)
Une Symphonie du havre by Barbara Doran (Canada)

Directors' Fortnight

The following films were screened for the 1991 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):^[12]

The Adjuster by Atom Egoyan
Annabelle partagée by Francesca Comencini
The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez by Peter Sellars
Chichkhan by Fadhel Jaïbi, M. Ben Mahmoud
Danzón by Maria Novaro
O Drapetis by Lefteris Xanthopoulos
És mégis... by Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács
An Imaginary Tale (Une histoire inventée) by André Forcier
The Indian Runner by Sean Penn
Lost In Siberia by Alexander Mitta
Ovo Malo Duse by Ademir Kenović
Paris Trout by Stephen Gyllenhaal
Proof by Jocelyn Moorhouse
Adam's Rib by Vyacheslav Krishtofovich
Riff-Raff by Ken Loach
Toto the Hero (Toto le héros) by Jaco Van Dormael
Suffocating Heat (Caldo soffocante) by Giovanna Gagliardo

Short films

Le Caire by Youssef Chahine

Official Awards

In Competition

Palme d'Or: Barton Fink by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen^[13]
Grand Prize of the Jury: La Belle Noiseuse by Jacques Rivette
Best Director: Joel Coen for Barton Fink
Best Actress: Irène Jacob for The Double Life of Veronique
Best Actor: John Turturro for Barton Fink
Best Supporting Actor: Samuel L. Jackson for Jungle Fever
Jury Prize:
- Europa by Lars von Trier
- Out of Life by Maroun Bagdadi

Caméra d'Or

Toto le Héros by Jaco Van Dormael^[2]
- Special Mention:
  - Proof by Jocelyn Moorhouse^[14]
  - Sam & Me by Deepa Mehta

Short Film Palme d'Or

With Hands Raised by Mitko Panov
Special Jury Prize: Push Comes to Shove by Bill Plympton

Independent Awards

International Critics' Week

SACD Award:
- Best Short: Carne by Gaspar Noé^[14]
- Best Feature: Young Soul Rebels by Isaac Julien

References

^ "Posters 1991". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 14 December 2013.
^ ^a ^b "Awards 1991: All Awards". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 26 August 2014.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Official Selection 1991: All the Selection". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 14 December 2013.
^ ^a ^b "44ème Festival International du Film - Cannes". cinema-francais.fr (in French). Retrieved 7 June 2017.
^ Canby, Vincent (21 May 1991). "'Barton Fink' Wins the Top Prize And 2 Others at Cannes Festival". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
^ "Coen Brothers' "Barton Fink" Wins Golden Palm At Cannes". Deseret News. Archived from the original on 29 November 2017. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
^ "American Film Wins At Cannes, But Madonna Comes A Cropper". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Archived from the original on 18 December 2013.
^ "The Cinematic Carnival Of Cannes". Retrieved 25 May 2017.
^ "'Barton Fink' Makes History At Cannes Fest". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
^ "Juries 1991: Feature film". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 15 April 2016.
^ "30e Selecion de la Semaine de la Critique - 1991". archives.semainedelacritique.com. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
^ "Quinzaine 1991". quinzaine-realisateurs.com. Archived from the original on 13 February 2018. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
^ "1991 - Le Jury, Les Prix". cannes-fest.com (in French). Retrieved 7 June 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1991". imdb.com. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
^ "FIPRESCI Awards 1991". fipresci.org. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
^ "Jury Œcuménique 1991". cannes.juryoecumenique.org. Retrieved 27 June 2017.

Media

INA: Robert Mitchum opens the 1991 Festival (commentary in French)
INA: List of winners of the 1991 festival (commentary in French)

External links

1991 Cannes Film Festival (web.archive)
Official website Retrospective 1991 Archived 2019-05-04 at the Wayback Machine
Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1991 at Internet Movie Database

[1] "Posters 1991". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 14 December 2013.

[awards-2] "Awards 1991: All Awards". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 26 August 2014.

[selection-3] "Official Selection 1991: All the Selection". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 14 December 2013.

[cinemafr-4] "44ème Festival International du Film - Cannes". cinema-francais.fr (in French). Retrieved 7 June 2017.

[5] Canby, Vincent (21 May 1991). "'Barton Fink' Wins the Top Prize And 2 Others at Cannes Festival". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 May 2017.

[6] "Coen Brothers' "Barton Fink" Wins Golden Palm At Cannes". Deseret News. Archived from the original on 29 November 2017. Retrieved 25 May 2017.

[7] "American Film Wins At Cannes, But Madonna Comes A Cropper". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Archived from the original on 18 December 2013.

[8] "The Cinematic Carnival Of Cannes". Retrieved 25 May 2017.

[9] "'Barton Fink' Makes History At Cannes Fest". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 25 May 2017.

[10] "Juries 1991: Feature film". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 15 April 2016.

[11] "30e Selecion de la Semaine de la Critique - 1991". archives.semainedelacritique.com. Retrieved 9 June 2017.

[12] "Quinzaine 1991". quinzaine-realisateurs.com. Archived from the original on 13 February 2018. Retrieved 9 June 2017.

[13] "1991 - Le Jury, Les Prix". cannes-fest.com (in French). Retrieved 7 June 2017.

[IMDb-14] "Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1991". imdb.com. Retrieved 27 June 2017.

[15] "FIPRESCI Awards 1991". fipresci.org. Retrieved 27 June 2017.

[16] "Jury Œcuménique 1991". cannes.juryoecumenique.org. Retrieved 27 June 2017.

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1991 Cannes Film Festival

Juries

Main competition

Camera d'Or

Official selection

In Competition

Un Certain Regard

Out of Competition

Short Films Competition

Parallel sections

International Critics' Week

Directors' Fortnight

Official Awards

In Competition

Caméra d'Or

Short Film Palme d'Or

Independent Awards

FIPRESCI Prizes

Commission Supérieure Technique

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

Award of the Youth

International Critics' Week

References

Media

External links

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