At the 64th Cannes Film Festival, the following trends have emerged, to wit:
1. Four female filmmakers in the main competition (2007 Grand Prix winner Naomi Kawase; first time contenders Lynne Ramsay, Australian Julia Leigh, and French director Maiwenn).
2. Another suspense-drama from actress-friendly Pedro Almodovar (this time starring Antonio Banderas in his first film with the auteur after 1990's Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!).
3. Cannes favorites and Danish provocateur Lars von Trier (with another "otherwordly" suspense movie), Dardenne brothers (it's about kids again!), Nuri Bilge Ceylan, and Sean Penn (who stars in two movies: Italian director Paolo Sorrentino's first English language film This Must Be The Place and Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life with Brad Pitt) are back after previous forays in the French Riviera in 2008 and 2009, respectively. (At last, Ken Loach is absent this year.)
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