Trailers for most of the Cannes 2009 Competition selection

Written by Nic Wistreich on 24 April 2009. Posted in Festivals

As Cannes Film Festival relaunches it website with a new service offering all films selected for the festival the chance to preview the first five minutes of their film, on release, on their site, and in a year bursting with the latest offerings from the festivals favourite auteurs, here's as many of the trailers as I could find. Starting with Lars von Trier's first return to horror since the Kingdom. It's a long time since a trailer scared the fluids out of me, and I can only hope it lives up to its promise. Full marks to Zentropa for having the only film in competition to shun YouTube's inferior quality streaming - in fact half the films don't even have websites or trailers ready, presumably because the films are still being finished, (or the producers are linktards). For more detailed write-up - Variety has a good run down.

Lars VON TRIER - ANTICHRIST - 1h44

More info from www.antichristthemovie.com

Jane CAMPION - BRIGHT STAR - 2h00

More info from www.brightstarthemovie.com

CLOSING FILM - Jan KOUNEN - COCO CHANEL & IGOR STRAVINSKY - Out of Comp. - 2h00

No trailer yet. Photos available on the official site - www.chanelstravinsky.com/

Pedro ALMODÓVAR - LOS ABRAZOS ROTOS (Broken Embraces) - 2h09

Gaspar NOE - ENTER THE VOID - 2h30

No trailer yet. Photos available on the official site - www.soudainlevide.com

TSAI Ming-Liang - VISAGE (Face) - 2h18

Footage above of extracts from the film - no trailer yet.

Andrea ARNOLD - FISH TANK - 2h02

No trailer or website exists for this film (in fact BBC Films and Artifical Eye don't even give it a page on their sites. I've seen coffee mornings better promoted).