1971 Cannes Film Festival Explained
The 24th Cannes Film Festival was held from 12 to 27 May 1971. The Palme d'Or went to The Go-Between by Joseph Losey.[1] [2]
The festival opened with Gimme Shelter, a documentary about English rock band the Rolling Stones directed by David Maysles, Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin and closed with Les mariés de l'an II, directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau.[3] [4] The festival paid tribute to Charlie Chaplin and honored him with the title of Commander of the national order of the Legion of Honor.[5] [6]
Juries
The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1971 film competition:[7]
Feature Films
Short Films
- Véra Volmane, Franch journalist - Jury President
- Charles Duvanel, Swiss
- Etienne Novella, Franch
Official selection
In Competition – Feature film
The following feature films competed for the Grand Prix International du Festival:[8]
Out of Competition
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:
Short Films Competition
The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:
- 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
Parallel Sections
International Critics' Week
The following feature films were screened for the 10th International Critics' Week (10e Semaine de la Critique):[9]
Directors' Fortnight
The following films were screened for the 1971 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):[10]
- A Fable by Al Freeman Jr. (United States)
- Are You Afraid? (Er i bange?) (doc.) by Henning Carlsen (Denmark)
- Badou Boy by Djibril Diop Mambety (Senegal)
- Bang Bang by Andréa Tonacci (Brazil)
- Birds, Orphans and Fools (Vtáčkovia, siroty a blázni) by Juraj Jakubisko (France, Czechoslovakia)
- Brother Carl by Susan Sontag (Sweden)
- The Ceremony (Gishiki) by Nagisa Oshima (Japan)
- Cleopatra by Michel Auder (United States)
- The Cow (Gāv) by Dariush Mehrjui (Iran)
- Cuadecuc, vampir by Pere Portabella (Spain)
- Don't Deliver Us from Evil (Mais ne nous délivrez pas du mal) by Joël Séria (France)
- Du Cote D'Orouet by Jacques Rozier (France)
- Dziura w ziemi by Andrzej Kondratiuk (Poland)
- Agnus dei (Égi bárány) by Miklós Jancsó (Hungary)
- Equinox (Equinozio) by Maurizio Ponzi (Italy)
- Fata Morgana by Werner Herzog (West Germany)
- Festival panafricain d'Alger 1969 (doc.) by William Klein (Algeria)
- La fin des Pyrénées by Jean-Pierre Lajournade (France)
- Four Nights of a Dreamer (Quatre nuits d'un rêveur) by Robert Bresson (France)
- Goin' Down the Road by Donald Shebib (Canada)
- How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (Como era gostoso o meu francês) by Nelson Pereira Dos Santos (Brazil)
- It Is Necessary to Be Among the Peoples of the World to Know Them (Faut aller parmi l'monde pour le savoir) by Fernand Dansereau (Canada)
- Lea in Winter (Léa l'hiver) by Marc Monnet (France)
- by George Moorse (West Germany)
- The Machine by A. Shermann, J. Rozenberg (Switzerland)
- Le Maître du temps (doc.) by Jean-Daniel Pollet (France)
- Makin' It by Simon Hartog (United Kingdom)
- Mare's Tail by David Larcher (United Kingdom)
- Mathias Kneissl by Reinhard Hauff (West Germany)
- México, la revolución congelada by Raymundo Gleyzer (Argentina)
- O Capitão Bandeira Contra o Dr. Moura Brasil (Moi, Schizo) by Antônio Calmon (Brazil)
- Ni vainqueurs, ni vaincus by A. Cabado, N. Spoliansky (Argentina)
- Of Gods and the Undead (Os Deuses e os Mortos) by Ruy Guerra (Brazil)
- The Past That Lives by Philo Bregstein (Netherlands)
- Prea mic pentru un razboi atît de mare by Radu Gabrea (Romania)
- Puntos suspensivos o Esperando a los bárbaros by Edgardo Cozarinsky (Argentina)
- Rape (Voldtekt) by Anja Breien (Norway)
- The Salamander (La salamandre) by Alain Tanner (Switzerland, France)
- Sex Jack (Seikozu) by Kōji Wakamatsu (Japan)
- Staféta by András Kovács (Hungary)
- The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach (Der plötzliche Reichtum der armen Leute von Kombach) by Volker Schlöndorff (West Germany)
- Los testigos by Charles Elsesser (Chile)
- Those Damned Savages (Les maudits sauvages) by Jean Pierre Lefebvre (Canada)
- THX 1138 by George Lucas (United States)
- Tokyo senso sengo hiwa by Nagisa Oshima (Japan)
- Umut by Yılmaz Güney (Turkey)
- Valparaiso, Valparaiso by Pascal Aubier (France)
- Voto mas fusil by Helvio Soto (Chile)
- W.R. - Misterije organizma by Dušan Makavejev (Yugoslavia)
- Wanda by Barbara Loden (United States)
Short films
- 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)
Official Awards
The following films and people received the 1971 Official selection awards:[11]
The Go-Between by Joseph Losey
Kitty Winn for The Panic in Needle Park
Riccardo Cucciolla for Sacco e Vanzetti
Short Films
Star Spangled Banner by Roger Flint
- Special Mention:
- Stuiter by Jan Oonk
- Une Statuette by Carlos Vilardebó
Independent Awards
FIPRESCI
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo[12]
Commission Supérieure Technique
The Hellstrom Chronicle by Walon Green[13]
Other Awards
Media
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: 24ème Festival International du Film – Cannes . cinema-francais.fr . fr . 6 June 2017.
- News: 1971 - Le Jury, Les Prix . cannes-fest.com . fr . 25 May 2017.
- Web site: From anecdote to legend . cannes.com . 25 May 2017 . 6 November 2019 . 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 . dead .
- News: Charlie Chaplin Stole the Show at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival . nla.gov.au . 25 May 2017.
- Web site: 1971: Tribute to Charlie Chaplin . festival-cannes.fr . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131224095531/http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/readArticleActu/57899.html . 24 December 2013 . dmy.
- News: 25th Cannes Film Festival . ina.fr . 25 May 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131224115004/http://www.ina.fr/video/CPF86609093/25eme-festival-de-cannes-video.html . 24 December 2013 . dead .
- Web site: Juries 1971: Long film . festival-cannes.fr . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304100025/http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1971/juryLongFilm.html . 4 March 2016 . dmy.
- Web site: Official Selection 1971: All the Selection . festival-cannes.fr . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131226221940/http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1971/allSelections.html . 26 December 2013 . dmy.
- Web site: 10e Selecion de la Semaine de la Critique - 1971 . archives.semainedelacritique.com . 1 July 2017.
- Web site: Quinzaine 1971 . quinzaine-realisateurs.com . 1 July 2017 . 14 October 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171014134033/http://www.quinzaine-realisateurs.com/qz_an/1971/ . live .
- Web site: Awards 1971 : All Awards . festival-cannes.fr . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131029194946/http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1971/allAward.html . 29 October 2013 . dmy.
- Web site: FIPRESCI Awards 1971 . fipresci.org . 2 July 2017.
- Web site: Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1971 . imdb.com . 2 July 2017.
