Publicity for the films that will be playing at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival is beginning and I have just received three new images from three anticipated films playing the fest.
I’ll begin with the above shot from Michael Haneke‘s Amour, which stars Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant as a pair of cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter (Isabelle Huppert), who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has an attack after which the couple’s bond of love is severely tested. Alexandre Tharaud also stars.
Based on the synopsis, there isn’t really much this film can likely convey in terms of pictures, though I do expect Darius Khondji, who also served as Haneke’s cinematographer on his English-language remake of Funny Games, will deliver some images well worth looking at.
Next is the above image of Thomas Kretschmann as Dracula and Asia Argento as Lucy in Dario Argento‘s Dracula 3D, which will serve as one of the fest’s currently planned midnight screenings. Here’s the official synopsis:
Transylvania, 1893. Jonathan Harker (Unax Ugalde), a young librarian, arrives at the village of Passo Borgo to work for Count Dracula (Kretschmann), a noble man from the area. When faced with the mysterious personality of his host, Jonathan quickly discovers the Count’s true nature and how dangerous the man might me, notably to his wife, Mina (Marta Gastini). Abraham Van Helsing (Rutger Hauer) has already crossed Dracula’s path, and as violent deaths start piling up, he might be the only man standing in the way of the Count’s evil intentions.
To go along with the above image I also have a gallery of 12 additional images featured below. The quality on these next few isn’t exactly stellar, but if you’re interested in a look at some pics with more fangs, more blood and more Hauer then you may want to give them a look.
Finally we come to Matteo Garrone‘s new pic Reality (aka Big House). I still don’t have an official synopsis on this one so all I can do is relay the one I pieced together previously after researching the film on the Internet a few days back:
A dark comedy centering on the lives of a Neapolitan based family whose father, a fish merchant, is so infatuated with the reality TV show “Grande Fratello” (the Italian version of “Big Brother”) he starts living his life as if he were on it.
I am sure I’ll have more from several of the fest’s entries over the next month leading up to the fest’s May 16 opening night and if you haven’t yet checked out the current line-up of films that will be screening up-to-date list.
