To celebrate the 70th edition of the Festival, Cannes Classics this year is dedicated to the history of the festival itself. The official selection involves masterpieces of cinema and a collection of five documentaries which you can find here:
- La belge histoire du festival de Cannes (The Belgian’s Road to Cannes) by Henri de Gerlache. Produced by Alizé Production in co-production with RTBF & Proximus. The film is about the history of Belgian cinema during the last 70 years, through a discussion between filmmakers of yesterday and young directors.
- David Stratton – A Cinematic Life by Sally Aitken. Produced by Stranger Than Fiction Films with Screen Australia, ABC TV Arts, Screen NSW and Adelaide Film Festival. A “love story” between critic David Stratton and Australia, his adopted country, especially with Australian cinema.
- Filmworker by Tony Zierra, produced by True Studio Cinema. The film is about Leon Vitali who after Barry Lyndon dropped his actor career to become Stanley Kubrick’s right hand for more than twenty years.
- Becoming Cary Grant by Mark Kidel. Produced by YUZU Productions and co-produced by ARTE France in association with ro*co films productions. When Hollywood legend Cary Grant was in his fifties, he started a cure of LSD in order to free himself from his own demons. This is the story of that voyage, told by the words of Grant himself, portrayed by Jonathan Pryce.
- Jean Douchet, l’enfant agité by Fabien Hagège, Guillaume Namur and Vincent Haasser. Produced by Carlotta and Kidam. The documentary is about Jean Douchet and reveals the man and his critical philosophy, a part of the history of the Cahiers du Cinéma and this Art of loving to which he has devoted his existence.
