New Gus Van Sant Flick Is In The Cannes

The new Gus Van Vant film Restless will open Un Certain Regard, selection of the Festival de Cannes, on the evening of Thursday, May 12. Restless will be released in the Fall by Sony Pictures Classics in North America, with Sony Pictures Releasing distributing in the rest of the world.

Produced by Columbia Pictures, Imagine Entertainment and 360 Pictures, the coming-of-age film examines the relationship of two outsider teenagers played by Mia Wasikowska and Henry Hopper, who are brought together by unseen circumstances. Restless director, Gus Van Sant, received the Palme d’or in 2003 for Elephant and the 60th anniversary award for Paranoid Park (2007). His first nomination at the Festival de Cannes was in 1995 for To Die For.

Un Certain Regard chooses close to twenty films each year for its official selection. The president of the jury, Emir Kusturica, will present the Prize Un Certain Regard on May 21.

The official Un Certain Regard selection was announced on Thursday, April 14th.