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1988 Cannes Film Festival

{{Infobox Film Festival

| name = 1988 Cannes Film Festival

| image = CFF88poster.jpg

| caption = Official poster of the 41st Cannes Film Festival, featuring an original illustration by Tibor Timar.{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1988/posters.html |title=Posters 1988 |work=festival-cannes.fr |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214234433/http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1988/posters.html |archive-date=14 December 2013 |df=dmy}}

| host =

| number = 21 (In Competition)

| opening = The Big Blue

| closing = Willow

| location = Cannes, France

| awards = Palme d'Or:
Pelle the Conqueror

| date = {{Start date|1988|05|11|df=y}} – {{End date|1988|05|23|df=y}}

| founded = 1946

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

| main = Cannes Film Festival

| previous = 1987

| next = 1989

}}

The 41st Cannes Film Festival took place from 11 to 23 May 1988.{{cite web|url=http://www.cinema-francais.fr/cannes/cannes_1988.htm |title=41ème Festival International du Film – Cannes |work=cinema-francais.fr |language=fr |access-date=6 June 2017}} Italian filmmaker Ettore Scola served as jury president for the main competition.{{cite web|url=http://www.cannes-fest.com/an1988.htm |title=1988 – Un monde à part (A World Apart) |work=cannes-fest.com |language=fr |access-date=7 June 2017}}

Danish filmmaker Bille August won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, for his drama film Pelle the Conqueror.{{cite web|url=http://articles.philly.com/1988-05-24/news/26263088_1_jury-prize-pelle-41st-cannes-film-festival |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131218092152/http://articles.philly.com/1988-05-24/news/26263088_1_jury-prize-pelle-41st-cannes-film-festival |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 18, 2013 |title=Danish Family Saga Wins Top Cannes Award "Pelle The Conqueror\" Wins The Golden Palm And \"a World Apart" Wins The Special Jury Prize At The Festival, Where Serious Films Prevail. |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |access-date=25 May 2017}}{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/29/movies/film-view-before-the-revolution-and-after.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm |title=Film View, Before the Revolution – and After |work=The New York Times |first=Vincent |last=Canby |date=29 May 1988 |access-date=25 May 2017}}

The festival opened with The Big Blue by Luc Besson,{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/theDailyArticle/60282.html |title=Cinema de la Plage – The Big Blue (Le Grand Bleu), Besson's marine odyssey |work=festival-cannes.fr |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214220834/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/theDailyArticle/60282.html |archive-date=14 December 2013 |df=dmy}}{{cite news |url=https://www.mcall.com/1988/08/20/jean-marc-barr-comes-out-of-the-big-blue/ |title=Jean-marc Barr Comes Out Of 'The Big Blue' |work=The Morning Call |access-date=25 May 2017 |archive-date=2017-11-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171129072022/http://articles.mcall.com/1988-08-20/entertainment/2650978_1_jean-marc-barr-jacques-mayol-co-star |url-status=live }} and closed with Willow by Ron Howard.{{cite news|url=http://articles.philly.com/1988-05-11/news/26263357_1_41st-cannes-film-festival-golden-palm-directors-fortnight |title=Cannes Focuses On Youth The French Film Festival Begins Tonight, Putting New Emphasis On New Filmmakers |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |access-date=10 December 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131218092141/http://articles.philly.com/1988-05-11/news/26263357_1_41st-cannes-film-festival-golden-palm-directors-fortnight |archive-date=18 December 2013 |df=dmy}}{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-12-ca-4193-story.html |title=Youth Being Served at 41st Cannes Film Festival : 20,000 Converge for French Rite That Focuses on 'Cinema of Next 10 Years' |access-date=25 May 2017}}

Juries

=Main competition=

=''Camera d'Or''=

  • Danièle Delorme, French actress - Jury President
  • Carlos Avellar, journalist
  • Jacques Champreux, French director
  • Henry Chapier, French film critic
  • Chantal Calafato, cinephile
  • Bernard Jubard
  • Ekaterina Oproiu, journalist
  • David Streiff, cinephile

Official selection

=In Competition=

The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1988/allSelections.html |title=Official Selection 1988: All the Selection |work=festival-cannes.fr |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214234507/http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1988/allSelections.html |archive-date=14 December 2013 |df=dmy}}

class="wikitable"

!English Title

!Original Title

!Director(s)

!Production Country

The Abyss

|L'oeuvre au noir

|André Delvaux

|France, Belgium

colspan="2" |Bird

|Clint Eastwood

|United States

The Cannibals

|Os Canibais

|Manoel de Oliveira

|Portugal

colspan="2" |Chocolat

|Claire Denis

|France, Cameroon

colspan="2" |El Dorado

|Carlos Saura

|Spain

colspan="2" |Drowning by Numbers

|Peter Greenaway

|United Kingdom, Netherlands

colspan="2" |L'enfance de l'art

|Francis Girod

|France

colspan="2" |Hanussen

|István Szabó

|Hungary, West Germany, Austria

King of the Children

|孩子王

|Chen Kaige

|China

Love and Fear

|Fürchten und Lieben

|Margarethe von Trotta

|West Germany, France, Italy

El Lute II: Tomorrow I'll be Free

|El Lute II: mañana seré libre

|Vicente Aranda

|Spain

colspan="2" |Miles from Home

|Gary Sinise

|United States

colspan="2" |Pascali's Island

|James Dearden

|United Kingdom

The Passenger – Welcome to Germany

|Der Passagier – Welcome to Germany

|Thomas Brasch

|West Germany

colspan="2" |Patty Hearst

|Paul Schrader

|United States

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|Pelle the Conqueror

|Pelle Erobreren

|Bille August

|Denmark, Sweden

colspan="2" |The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey

|Vincent Ward

|New Zealand, Australia

A Short Film About Killing

|Krótki film o zabijaniu

|Krzysztof Kieślowski

|Poland

South

|Sur

|Fernando Solanas

|Argentina

colspan="2" |A World Apart

|Chris Menges

|United Kingdom, Zimbabwe

Wuthering Heights

|嵐が丘

|Yoshishige Yoshida

|Japan

=''Un Certain Regard''=

The following films were selected for the Un Certain Regard section:

class="wikitable"

!English Title

!Original Title

!Director(s)

!Production Country

Among Grey Stones

|Среди серых камней

|Kira Muratova

|Soviet Union

Antarjali Jatra

|অন্তর্জলী যাত্রা

|Goutam Ghose

|India

colspan="2" |Gece Yolculuğu

|Ömer Kavur

|Turkey

The Harms Case

|Slučaj Harms

|Slobodan D. Pesic

|Yugoslavia

colspan="2" |Havinck

|Frans Weisz

|Netherlands

Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie

|Hôtel Terminus: Klaus Barbie, sa vie et son temps

|Marcel Ophuls

|United States

It's Happening Tomorrow

|Domani accadrà

|Daniele Luchetti

|Italy

Katinka

|Ved vejen

|Max von Sydow

|Denmark, Sweden

colspan="2" |Lamento

|François Dupeyron

|France

Lounge Chair

|La méridienne

|Jean-François Amiguet

|Switzerland, France

colspan="2" |Mapantsula

|Oliver Schmitz

|South Africa

The Mask

|La maschera

|Fiorella Infascelli

|Italy

colspan="2" |Natalia

|Bernard Cohn

|France

On the Silver Globe

|Na srebrnym globie

|Andrzej Żuławski

|Poland

colspan="2" |The Raggedy Rawney

|Bob Hoskins

|United Kingdom

The Revolving Doors

|Les Portes tournantes

|Francis Mankiewicz

|Canada, France

Rouge of the North

|怨女

|Fred Tan

|Taiwan

Sand and Blood

|De sable et de sang

|Jeanne Labrune

|France

colspan="2" |A Song of Air

|Merilee Bennett

|Australia

Stalin's Disciples

|ילדי סטאלין

|Nadav Levitan

|Israel

Time of Violence

|Време на насилие

|Ludmil Staikov

|Bulgaria

Why?

|Proc?

|Karel Smyczek

|Czechoslovakia

=Out of Competition=

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

class="wikitable"

!English Title

!Original Title

!Director(s)

!Production Country

The Big Blue (opening film)

|Le Grand Bleu

|Luc Besson

|France, United States, Italy

colspan="2" |The Blue Iguana

|John Lafia

| rowspan="3" |United States

colspan="2" |The Milagro Beanfield War

|Robert Redford

colspan="2" |Willow (closing film)

|Ron Howard

= Special Screenings =

The following films were selected to receive a special screening:

class="wikitable"

!English Title

!Original Title

!Director(s)

!Production Country

colspan="2" |Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

|Bill Couturié

|United States

colspan="2" |Histoire(s) du cinéma

|Jean-Luc Godard

|France, Switzerland

=Short film competition=

The following short films competed for the Palme d'Or du court métrage:

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Parallel sections

=International Critics' Week=

The following feature films were screened for the 27th International Critics' Week (27e Semaine de la Critique):{{cite web|url=http://archives.semainedelacritique.com/films/1988/1988_selection.php |title= 27e Selecion de la Semaine de la Critique – 1988 |work=archives.semainedelacritique.com |access-date=7 June 2017}}

Feature film competition

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Short film competition

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  • La face cachée de la lune by Yvon Marciano (France)
  • Metropolis Apocalypse by Jon Jacobs (United Kingdom){{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}
  • Artisten (The Artist) by Jonas Grimas (Sweden)
  • Klatka (The cage) by Olaf Olszewski (Poland)
  • Cidadao Jatoba (Citizen Jatoba) by Maria Luiza Aboïm (Brazil)
  • Blues Black and White by Markus Imboden (Switzerland)

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=Directors' Fortnight=

The following feature films were screened for the 1988 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):{{cite web |url=https://www.quinzaine-cineastes.fr/fr/edition/1988 |title=Quinzaine 1988 |work=quinzaine-realisateurs.com |access-date=8 June 2017 |archive-date=28 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170428151536/http://www.quinzaine-realisateurs.com/qz_an/1988/ |url-status=live }}

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Official Awards

File:Ettore Scola.jpg, Jury President of the Main competition]]File:Bille August.jpg, 1988 Palme d'Or winner]]

=In Competition=

= ''[[Caméra d'Or]]'' =

Short films

= [[Short Film Palme d'Or]] =

  • Vykrutasy by Garri Bardin
  • Short Film Prize for Animation: Traces of Sand by Ferenc Cako
  • Short Film Prize for Fiction: Physical Sculpture by Yann Piquer and Jean Marie Maddeddu

Independent Awards

= [[FIPRESCI|FIPRESCI Prizes]] =

= ''Commission Supérieure Technique'' =

= [[Prize of the Ecumenical Jury]] =

= Award of the Youth =

= Other awards =

References

{{reflist}}

Media

  • [http://fresques.ina.fr/festival-de-cannes-en/fiche-media/Cannes00433/opening-of-the-1988-cannes-festival.html INA: Opening of the 1988 Cannes Festival] (commentary in French)
  • [http://fresques.ina.fr/festival-de-cannes-en/fiche-media/Cannes00248/list-of-winners-of-the-1988-festival.html INA: List of winners of the 1988 festival] (commentary in French)

External links

{{Commons category}}

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20131214234507/http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1988/inCompetition.html 1988 Cannes Film Festival] (web.archive)
  • [http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/69-editions/retrospective/1988/selection/in-competition-feature-films Official website Retrospective 1988] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190120043225/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/69-editions/retrospective/1988/selection/in-competition-feature-films |date=2019-01-20 }}
  • [https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000147/1988 Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1988] at Internet Movie Database

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