1970 Cannes Film Festival
The 23rd Cannes Film Festival ran from 3 to 18 May 1970. This year, Robert Favre LeBret, the founder of the festival, decided not to include any films from Russia and Japan. He was tired of the "Slavic spectacles and Japanese samurai flicks.". The Russians took back their juror Sergei Obraztsov and left the jury panel with only eight members.
Nobel Prize for Literature winner Miguel Ángel Asturias was appointed as President of the Jury. At the time, he was serving as ambassador from Guatemala to France. The Palme d'Or went to the MASH by Robert Altman. The festival opened with Les Choses de la vie, directed by Claude Sautet and closed with Le Bal du Comte d'Orgel, directed by Marc Allégret.
Jury
The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1970 film competition:Feature films
- Miguel Ángel Asturias Jury President
- Guglielmo Biraghi, critic
- Kirk Douglas, actor
- Christine Gouze-Rénal, producer
- Vojtěch Jasný, director
- Félicien Marceau, playwright
- Sergey Obraztsov, puppeteer
- Karel Reisz, filmmaker
- Volker Schlöndorff, filmmaker
- Fred Orain
- Jerzy Płażewski, critic
- Vincio Delleani
Official selection
In competition - Feature film
The following feature films competed for the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film:- The Alienist by Nelson Pereira dos Santos
- The Buttercup Chain by Robert Ellis Miller
- Don Segundo Sombra by Manuel Antín
- The Dreamer by Dan Wolman
- Elise, or Real Life by Michel Drach
- The Falcons by István Gaál
- Fruit of Paradise by Věra Chytilová
- Harry Munter by Kjell Grede
- Hoa-Binh by Raoul Coutard
- Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion by Elio Petri
- The Land by Youssef Chahine
- Landscape After the Battle by Andrzej Wajda
- Last Leap by Édouard Luntz
- Leo the Last by John Boorman
- Long Live the Bride and Groom by Luis García Berlanga
- Malatesta by Peter Lilienthal
- MASH by Robert Altman
- Metello by Mauro Bolognini
- The Palace of Angels by Walter Hugo Khouri
- The Pizza Triangle by Ettore Scola
- A Simple Story by Abdellatif Ben Ammar
- The Strawberry Statement by Stuart Hagmann
- Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon by Otto Preminger
- The Things of Life by Claude Sautet
- Tulips of Haarlem by Franco Brusati
Films out of competition
- The Ball of Count Orgel by Marc Allégret
- Mictlan o la casa de los que ya no son by Raúl Kamffer
- The Territory of Others by Gérard Vienne, Jacqueline Lecompte, Michel Fano and François Bel
- They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Sydney Pollack
- Tristana by Luis Buñuel
- The Virgin and the Gypsy by Christopher Miles
- Voyage Chez Les Vivants by Henry Brandt
- Woodstock by Michael Wadleigh
Short film competition
- A Day With the Boys by Volker Schlöndorff
- Comme Larrons En Foire by Edmond Freess
- El diablo sin dama by Eduardo Calcagno
- Et Salammbo? by Jean-Pierre Richard
- Gipsy Pentecost by Laurence Boulting
- Kaleidoski by Jacques Ertaud
- L'autre silence by Nestor Matsas
- Light by Paul Cohen
- Magic Machines by Bob Curtis
- Smrtici vone by Vaclav Bedrich
- The Epitaph by Gurucharan Singh
- Un temps pour la mémoire by Georges Pessis
Parallel sections
International Critics' Week
The following films were screened for the 9th International Critics' Week :- Camarades by Marin Karmitz
- Eloge du chiac by Michel Brault
- Kes by Ken Loach
- Misshandlingen by Lars Lennart Forsberg
- O Cerco by Antonio Cunha Telles
- On voit bien que c’est pas toi by Christian Zarifian
- Ramparts of Clay by Jean-Louis Bertucelli
- Soleil O by Med Hondo
- Les Voitures d’eau by Pierre Perrault
- Vrane by Gordan Mihić and Ljubiša Kozomara
- Warm in the Bud by Rudolph Caringi
- Ice by Robert Kramer
Directors' Fortnight
- A nous deux, France by Désiré Ecaré
- L'Araignée d'eau by Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe
- Arthur Penn: Themes, Variants, Images & Words doc.) by Robert Hughes
- Bhuvan Shome by [Mrinal Sen
- Caliche sangriento by Helvio Soto
- I Cannibali by Liliana Cavani
- La Chambre Blanche by Jean Pierre Lefebvre
- Cowards by Simon Nuchtern
- Des Christs par milliers by Philippe Arthuys
- Détruisez-vous by Serge Bard
- Dieu existe tous les dimanches by Henrik Stangerup
- Don Giovanni by Carmelo Bene
- Eikka Katappa by Werner Schroeter
- End Of The Road by Aram Avakian
- Entre tu et vous by Michel Brault and Gilles Groulx
- L'Escadron Volapük by René Gilson
- L'Étrangleur by Paul Vecchiali
- Even Dwarfs Started Small by Werner Herzog
- Un Film by Sylvina Boissonnas
- Fuoricampo by Peter Del Monte
- Handcuffs by Krsto Papić
- La Hora de los niños by Arturo Ripstein
- The Howl by Tinto Brass
- The Inheritors by Carlos Diegues
- James ou pas by Michel Soutter
- Jänken by Lars Forsberg
- Jutrzenka by Jaime Camino
- Killed the Family and Went to the Movies by Júlio Bressane
- Macunaíma by Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
- A Married Couple by Allan King
- Molo by Wojciech Solarz
- Mon amie Pierrette by Jean Pierre Lefebvre
- L'Odyssée du général José by Jorge Fraga
- L'Opium et le Bâton by Ahmed Rachedi
- Palaver by Emile Degelin
- Paradise Now by Sheldon Rochlin
- Portrait by Jérôme Hill
- Une Pulsation by Carlos Paez Vilaro and Gérard Levy-Clerc
- Putney Swope by Robert Downey Sr.
- Q-Bec My Love by Jean Pierre Lefebvre
- Reason Over Passion by Joyce Wieland
- Reconstituirea by Lucian Pintilie
- Le Révélateur by Philippe Garrel
- Right On by Herbert Danska
- Ruchome piaski by Władysław Ślesicki
- School Play by Charles Rydell
- Som Natt Och Dag by Jonas Cornell
- Struktura kryształu by Krzysztof Zanussi
- Sweet Hunters by Ruy Guerra
- Troupe d'élite, fleur de Marie by Oimel Mai
- Valparaiso, mi amor by Aldo Francia
- Wie Ich ein Neger wurde by Roland Gall
- Wind from the East by Jean-Luc Godard
- Les Yeux ne veulent pas en tout temps se fermer by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet
- 20 September by Kurt Kren
- Aaa by Dieter Meier
- Ai Love by Takahiko Limura
- All My Life by Bruce Baillie
- American Woman by Bruce E. Meintjies
- Back And Forth by Michael Snow
- Bartleby 1970 by Jean-Pierre Bastid
- Béjart by Atahualpa Lichy
- Berkeley by Patrick Reynolds
- Bliss by Gregory Markopoulos
- Cosinus Alpha by Kurt Kren
- Das Sonnenbad by Bernd Upnmoor
- David Perry by Albie Thoms
- Dimanche Après-midi by Stéphane Kurc
- Disson. Zeitreih by Hans Peter Kochenrath
- Eros, O Basil by Gregory Markopoulos
- Faces by John Moore and Takahiko Limura
- Fenstergucker by Kurt Kren
- Film Oder Macht by Vlado Kristl
- Georges Albert, Aventurier by Daniel Edinger
- In The Void by Ronald Bijlsma
- It's So Peaceful by Fritz André Kracht
- La Bergère En Colère by Francis Warin
- La Cazadora Inconsciente by Rafael R. Balerdi
- La Question ordinaire by Claude Miller
- La Tête Froide by Patrick Hella
- Labyrinthe by Piotr Kamler
- Le Coo by Paul Dopff
- Le Voyage De M. Guitton by Pascal Aubier
- Les Trois Cousins by René Vautier
- Manha Cinzenta by Olney A. Sau Paulo
- Mauern by Kurt Kren
- Messages, Messages by Steven Arnold
- One More Time by Daniel Pommereulle
- Papa und Mama by Kurt Kren
- Park Rape by Jon Beckjord
- Piece Mandala by Paul Sharits
- Play 4 + 5 by Klaus Schönherr
- Portrait D. Cor by Klaus Schönherr
- Portraits by Gregory Markopoulos
- S.W.B. by Gérard Pires
- Scenes From by Stan Brakhage
- Selbst Verst by Selbst Verst
- Sodoma by Otto Muehl
- Some Won't Go by Gil Toff
- Still Nacht by Hans Peter Kochenrath
- Stock Exchange Transplant by Douglas Collins
- T.O.U.C.H.I.N.G. by Paul Sharits
- Talla by Malcolm Le Grice
- The Mechanical Man by Ronald Fritz
- Underground Explosion by Kurt Kren
- Vite by Daniel Pommereulle
- Work In Progress by W. Hein and G. Hein
- Zelenka'' by Robert Rosen
Awards
Official awards
The following films and people received the 1970 Official selection awards:- Grand Prix du Festival International du Film: MASH by Robert Altman
- Grand Prix Spécial du Jury: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion by Elio Petri
- Best Director: John Boorman for Leo the Last
- Best Actress: Ottavia Piccolo for Metello
- Best Actor: Marcello Mastroianni for The Pizza Triangle
- Jury Prize :
- *The Falcons - István Gaál
- *The Strawberry Statement - Stuart Hagmann
- Best First Work: Hoa-Binh by Raoul Coutard
- Prix du Jury: The Magic Machines by Bob Curtis
- Special Mention: Et Salammbo? by Jean-Pierre Richard
Independent awards
- FIPRESCI Prize: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion by Elio Petri
- Technical Grand Prize: Le Territoire des autres by François Bel
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