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1971 Cannes Film Festival

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{{Infobox Film Festival

| name = 1971 Cannes Film Festival

| image = CFF71poster.jpg

| caption = Official poster of the 24th Cannes Film Festival, an original illustration by French artist René Ferracci.{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1971/posters.html |title=Posters 1971 |work=festival-cannes.fr |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018103354/http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1971/posters.html |archive-date=18 October 2014 |df=dmy}}

| host =

| number = 26 (In Competition)

| opening = Gimme Shelter

| closing = The Married Couple of the Year Two

| location = Cannes, France

| awards = Palme d'Or:
The Go-Between

| date = {{Start date|1971|05|12|df=y}} – {{End date|1971|05|27|df=y}}

| founded = 1946

| website = {{URL|festival-cannes.com/en}}

| main = Cannes Film Festival

| previous = 1970

| next = 1972

}}

The 24th Cannes Film Festival took place from 12 to 27 May 1971. French actress Michèle Morgan served as jury president for the main competition.{{cite web |title=24ème Festival International du Film – Cannes |url=http://www.cinema-francais.fr/cannes/cannes_1971.htm |access-date=6 June 2017 |work=cinema-francais.fr |language=fr}}{{cite news |title=25th Cannes Film Festival |url=http://www.ina.fr/video/CPF86609093/25eme-festival-de-cannes-video.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224115004/http://www.ina.fr/video/CPF86609093/25eme-festival-de-cannes-video.html |archive-date=24 December 2013 |access-date=25 May 2017 |work=ina.fr}} The Grand Prix du Festival International du Film, then the fetival's main prize, was awarded to The Go-Between by Joseph Losey.{{cite news |url=http://www.cannes-fest.com/pr1971.htm |title=1971 - Le Jury, Les Prix |work=cannes-fest.com |language=fr |access-date=25 May 2017}}

This edition paid tribute to Charlie Chaplin and honored him with the title of Commander of the national order of the Legion of Honor.{{cite web |title=1971: Tribute to Charlie Chaplin |url=http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/readArticleActu/57899.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224095531/http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/readArticleActu/57899.html |archive-date=24 December 2013 |work=festival-cannes.fr |df=dmy}}{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article44557774 |title=Charlie Chaplin Stole the Show at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival |work=nla.gov.au |access-date=25 May 2017}}

The festival opened with Gimme Shelter by David Maysles, Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, and closed with The Married Couple of the Year Two by Jean-Paul Rappeneau.{{cite web |url=http://www.cannes.com/en/festival-de-cannes/history-of-the-cannes-film-festival/from-anecdote-to-legend.html |title=From anecdote to legend |work=cannes.com |access-date=25 May 2017 |archive-date=6 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191106104949/http://www.cannes.com/en/festival-de-cannes/history-of-the-cannes-film-festival/from-anecdote-to-legend.html |url-status=dead }}

Juries

= Main Competition =

  • Michèle Morgan, French actress - Jury President{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1971/juryLongFilm.html |title=Juries 1971: Long film |work=festival-cannes.fr |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304100025/http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1971/juryLongFilm.html |archive-date=4 March 2016 |df=dmy}}
  • Pierre Billard, French journalist and film critic
  • Michael Birkett, British producer
  • Anselmo Duarte, Brazilian filmmaker
  • István Gaál, Hungarian filmmaker
  • Sergio Leone, Italian filmmaker
  • Aleksandar Petrović, Yugoslav filmmaker
  • Maurice Rheims, French art historian and novelist
  • Erich Segal, American author

= Short Films Competition =

  • Véra Volmane, Franch journalist - Jury President
  • Charles Duvanel, Swiss
  • Etienne Novella, Franch

Official selection

=In Competition=

The following feature films competed for the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film:{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1971/allSelections.html |title=Official Selection 1971: All the Selection |work=festival-cannes.fr |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131226221940/http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1971/allSelections.html |archive-date=26 December 2013 |df=dmy}}

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!English Title

!Original Title

!Director(s)

!Production Country

colspan="2" |Apokal

|Paul Anczykowski

|West Germany

Between Miracles

|Per grazia ricevuta

|Nino Manfredi

|Italy

The Boat on the Grass

|Le Bateau sur l'herbe

|Gérard Brach

|France

colspan="2" |La Califfa

|Alberto Bevilacqua

|France, Italy

Death in Venice

|Morte a Venezia

|Luchino Visconti

|Italy, France

colspan="2" |Drive, He Said

|Jack Nicholson

|United States

Family Life

|Życie rodzinne

|Krzysztof Zanussi

|Poland

The Flight

|Бег

|Aleksandr Alov and Vladimir Naumov

|Soviet Union

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| colspan="2" |The Go-Between

|Joseph Losey

|United Kingdom

Goya, a Story of Solitude

|Goya, historia de una soledad

|Nino Quevedo

|Spain

colspan="2" |Joe Hill

|Bo Widerberg

|Sweden, United States

colspan="2" |Johnny Got His Gun

|Dalton Trumbo

|United States

colspan="2" |Loot

|Silvio Narizzano

|United Kingdom

Love

|Szerelem

|Károly Makk

|Hungary

The Married Couple of the Year Two (closing film)

|Les mariés de l'an II

|Jean-Paul Rappeneau

|France, Italy, Romania

colspan="2" |Mira

|Fons Rademakers

|Netherlands, Belgium

Murmur of the Heart

|Le souffle au cœur

|Louis Malle

|France, Italy, West Germany

colspan="2" |The Panic in Needle Park

|Jerry Schatzberg

|United States

colspan="2" |Pindorama

|Arnaldo Jabor

|Brazil

Raphael, or The Debauched One

|Raphaël ou le débauché

|Michel Deville

|France

Sacco & Vanzetti

|Sacco e Vanzetti

|Giuliano Montaldo

|Italy, France

Sick Animals

|Animale bolnave

|Nicolae Breban

|Romania

A Soul to Devils

|闇の中の魑魅魍魎

|Kō Nakahira

|Japan

colspan="2" |Taking Off

|Miloš Forman

|United States

Wake in Fright

|Outback

|Ted Kotcheff

|Australia, United Kingdom, United States

colspan="2" |Walkabout

|Nicolas Roeg

|United Kingdom, Australia, United States

=Out of Competition=

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:

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=Short Films Competition=

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:

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  • Astronaut Coffee Break by Edward Casazza
  • Centinelas del silencio by Robert Amram
  • Fair Play by Bronislaw Zeman
  • Hans Hartrung by Christian Ferlet
  • I mari della mia fantasia by Ernesto G. Laura
  • Jardin by Claude Champion
  • La fin du jeu by Renaud Walter
  • Le coeur renverse by Maurice Frydland
  • Memorial by James Allen
  • Mixed-Double by Bent Barfod
  • Patchwork by Georges Schwizgebel, Claude Luyet, Daniel Suter, Manolo Otero, Gérald Poussin
  • Paul Delvaux, ou les femmes défendues by Henri Storck
  • Star Spangled Banner by Roger Flint
  • Stuiter by Jan Oonk
  • Une statuette by Carlos Vilardebo

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Parallel Sections

=International Critics' Week=

The following feature films were screened for the 10th International Critics' Week (10e Semaine de la Critique):{{cite web|url=http://archives.semainedelacritique.com/films/1971/1971_selection.php |title= 10e Selecion de la Semaine de la Critique - 1971 |work=archives.semainedelacritique.com |access-date=1 July 2017}}

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=Directors' Fortnight=

The following films were screened for the 1971 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):{{cite web |url=https://www.quinzaine-cineastes.fr/fr/edition/1971 |title=Quinzaine 1971 |work=quinzaine-realisateurs.com |access-date=1 July 2017 |archive-date=14 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171014134033/http://www.quinzaine-realisateurs.com/qz_an/1971/ |url-status=live }}

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== Short films ==

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  • Apotheosis by John Lennon, Yoko Ono (United Kingdom)
  • Cannes, 70... by Jean-Paul Jaud (France)
  • Essai à la mille by Jean-Claude Labrecque (Canada)
  • Estado de sitio by Jaime Chávarri (Spain)
  • Grumes by Jean-Pierre Bonneau (France)
  • Habitude by Dan Wolman (Israel)
  • La belleza by Arturo Ripstein (Mexico)
  • La Pierre qui flotte by Jean-Jacques Andrien (Belgium)
  • Le Cri by Paul Dopff (France)
  • Le Vampire de la Cinémathèque by Roland Lethem (Belgium)
  • Le voyage du Lieutenant Le Bihan by László Szabó (France)
  • Les bulles du cardinal by Ody Roos (Luxembourg)
  • Meatdaze by Jeff Keen (United Kingdom)
  • Mégalodrame by Alain Colas (France)
  • Moment by Stephen Dwoskin (United Kingdom)
  • Monangambeee by Sarah Maldoror (Angola)
  • Mortem by Adam Schmedes (Denmark)
  • Okasareta hakui by Kōji Wakamatsu (Japan)
  • Please Don't Stand On My Sunshine by Ned McCann (Australia)
  • R.S.V.P. by W. Pinkston, J. Mason V. (United States)
  • Rosée Du Matin by Jean Dasque (France)
  • Sex by David Avidan (Israel)
  • Sur les traces de Baal by Abdellatif Ben Ammar (Tunisia)
  • Underground Again by Laure Guggenheim (France)
  • Venceremos by Pedro Chaskel (Chile)
  • Viva Cariri by Geraldo Sarno (Brazil)

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Official Awards

File:Michèle Morgan Césars.jpg

File:Joseph Losey 1965.jpg

= Main Competition =

= Short Films Competition =

  • Prix spécial du Jury: Star Spangled Banner by Roger Flint
  • Special Mention:
  • Stuiter by Jan Oonk
  • Une Statuette by Carlos Vilardebó

Independent Awards

= [[FIPRESCI|FIPRESCI Prize]] =

  • Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo{{cite web|url=http://www.fipresci.org/awards/1971 |title=FIPRESCI Awards 1971 |work=fipresci.org |access-date=2 July 2017}}

= Commission Supérieure Technique =

= [[SIGNIS|OCIC Award]] =

= Other Awards =

References

{{Reflist}}

Media

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20131224115004/http://www.ina.fr/video/CPF86609093/25eme-festival-de-cannes-video.html INA: 25th Cannes Film Festival] (commentary in French)
  • [http://fresques.ina.fr/festival-de-cannes-en/fiche-media/Cannes00417/a-jury-member-comments-on-the-winners.html INA: Michèle Morgan, president of the 1971 jury] (commentary in French)
  • [http://fresques.ina.fr/festival-de-cannes-en/fiche-media/Cannes00138/about-the-film-the-go-between-by-joseph-losey.html INA: About the film The Go-Between by Joseph Losey] (interview in French and English)

External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20160316141411/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/1971/inCompetition.html 1971 Cannes Film Festival] (web.archive)
  • [http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/69-editions/retrospective/1971/selection/in-competition-feature-films Official website Retrospective 1971] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190114044407/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/69-editions/retrospective/1971/selection/in-competition-feature-films |date=2019-01-14 }}
  • [https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000147/1971 Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1971] at Internet Movie Database

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