Quentin Tarantino Returns to Cannes

Quentin Tarantino is returning to Cannes, the film festival where his second movie, a film that changed cinema forever, Pulp Fiction, won the prestigious Palme d’Or in 1994.

Quentin’s new movie, Inglourious Basterds, about a group of Jewish-American soldiers on a covert mission to brutally terrorize Nazis during the French occupation, will be competing against Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock, Looking for Eric, which was directed by Ken Loach, who won the Palme d’Or in 2006 for The Wind That Shook the Barley, and 17 other films.

Cannes will also be the first showcase for Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, a film made infamous because it features Heath Ledger’s final performance.

Heath died halfway through production, so his part was completed by Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell.

The Cannes Film Festival runs from May 13th-24th. 

—Sasha Perl-Raver