Just today I received a few new images from four films that will be featured at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and while many in the film world will be heading to La Croisette I will be here in the RopeofSilicon lab reporting on it as Variety and Hollywood Reporter will undoubtedly be bringing us so many new film deals over the course of the 11 days of the festival it will be nuts. The festival begins on May 16 and lasts until the 27th and the new pics we have received are from Wong Kar Wai’s My Blueberry Nights, Joel and Ethan Coen’s No Country for Old Men, Angelina Jolie’s A Mighty Heart and the Universal Pictures crime drama We Own the Night starring Joaquin Phoenix, Robert Duvall, Eva Mendes, Mark Wahlberg and Christopher Walken.
Check out the preview pics below and give them a click for the gallery and more info on each film.
“My Blueberry Nights” is the new film from one of the world’s most sought-after directors, Wong Kar Wai. It’s a magnificent love story starring multi-Grammy award winner Norah Jones in her movie debut along with a “A-list†cast of Academy Award winners and nominees including Jude Law, David Strathairn, Rachel Weisz and Natalie Portman.
Norah Jones plays a sensual, alluring young woman who sets out on an unforgettable journey of discovery in pursuit of true love. In heartbreakingly beautiful locations and classic Route 66 atmospheric diners, Wong Kar Wai’s captivating heroine encounters a series of enigmatic characters that help her on her quest.
Set against New York’s magical cityscape and the stunning vistas of America’s legendary Route 66, the celebrated director’s first English language picture embraces his signature elegance and originality that made “Happy Together,” “In the Mood for Love” and “2046” must-see movies all around the world.
Wong Kar Wai’s unique talent and dreamy romantic themes, combined with mythical Americans locations and an awesomely gifted and stylish cast, guarantee that “My Blueberry Nights” will delight and enchant moviegoers everywhere.
Bobby Green (Joaquin Phoenix) is caught in the crossfire. Manager of a Russian nightclub in Brighton Beach frequented by gangsters like Vadim Nezhinski (Alex Veadov), Bobby keeps his distance, not wanting to get involved. Despite his hedonistic, amoral lifestyle, he is committed to his girlfriend Amada (Eva Mendes) and has ambitions to open his own club and expand out of Brooklyn.
Bobby has a secret, however, which he guards closely. His brother is Police Lieutenant Joseph Grusinsky (Mark Wahlberg), who has followed in the footsteps of their father, legendary Deputy Chief Burt Grusinsky (Robert Duvall). Bobby’s already strained relationship with his father and brother is tested when Burt warns his son that this is a war, and he’s going to have to choose a side.
He can no longer remain neutral when his brother is badly wounded in an assassination attempt, and Bobby discovers his father could be next. Realizing they will only be safe when Nezhinski and his organization are destroyed, Bobby and Joseph join forces for an all-out assault. Together, they’ll try to prove the NYPD’s ’80s rallying cry in the war on drugs: We Own the Night.
The film stars Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson and Stephen Root.
