This morning the Cannes Film Festival announced several more additions to its line-up, this includes Michel Franco‘s Dr. Dre biopic Chronic and Guillamue Nicoloux‘s Valley of Love as the two new Competition titles as well as films from Billante Mendoza, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Naomi Kawase in the Un Certain Regard. You can view the complete line-up Le Temps Detruit Tout) saying:
The film I’m finishing is going to be very unusual, because it’s a love story in 3D. But all the elements in it have already been seen over a hundred times in different films. It’s just the mix that will make it different. […] It’s going to be closer to the life I really know. […] The only violence in the whole film is how people who are madly in love insult each other. […] With my next film I hope guys will have erections and girls will get wet. […] KG is the coolest actor I have ever met. He is daring, joyful and intelligent. He has love scenes throughout the whole movie. He is the ultimate 3D baby maker.
Wild Bunch’s Vincent Maraval said of the film, “We’ll have a visual and a note of intention at Cannes. It’s a love story, which celebrates sex in a joyous way. Gaspard feels that most films that touch on sex in traditional cinema are dark and dramatic, this will be really joyous… He says it’s a film that will give guys ‘a hard-on and make girls cry’.”
So what’s it about? The simplest synopsis I’ve seen calls it a sexual melodrama about a boy and a girl and another girl, but if you want to get a little more poetic we have this preamble to add:
LOVE occurs beyond GOOD and EVIL. LOVE is a genetic need. LOVE is an altered state of consciousness. LOVE is a hard drug. LOVE is a mental disease. LOVE is a game of power. LOVE is to surpass one’s self. LOVE is a blinding light. LOVE is sperm, fluids and tears. LOVE is an arousing sexual melodrama about a boy and a girl and ANOTHER GIRL.
LOVE is beyond GOOD and EVIL. LOVE is SPERM, FLUIDS and TEARS. LOVE is a SEXUAL MELODRAMA about a BOY, a GIRL and ANOTHER GIRL
The best part is Wild Bunch calls the first version the “short” version and the second version the “long” version.
The only known cast member is whomever Noe is referring to when he says KG and I doubt it’s Kevin Garnett. Will this be the sexual breakout of Cannes the same as Blue is the Warmest Color or does the Midnight placement suggest it’s not exactly that kind of film? We’ll see soon enough, the 2015 Cannes Film Festival runs from May 13-24.
