New movies by Wes Anderson, Alice Rohrwacher, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Todd Haynes and Wim Wenders will compete for the Cannes Film Festival’s coveted prime honor, the Palme d’Or, as will a file variety of movies directed by ladies.
Cannes inventive director Thierry Frémaux and president Iris Knobloch, who took over the publish final 12 months from Pierre Lescure, introduced a lineup heavy on big-name worldwide auteurs, together with some new faces, in a press convention Thursday in Paris.
Among the 19 movies chosen for Cannes’ prestigious competitors slate are Anderson’s sci-fi homage “Asteroid City,” Wenders’ “Perfect Days”; Kor-eda’s “Monster”; Alice Rohrwacher’s “La Chimera”; and Haynes’ “May December,” a romance with Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore. Ken Loach, lengthy a Cannes common, will return with “The Old Oak.” Jonathan Glazer will premiere his first function since 2013’s “Under the Skin” together with his Martin Amis adaptation “Zone of Interest.”
After a scaled-down 2021 occasion and a comeback pageant in 2022, this 12 months’s Cannes finds the pageant again on stage floor and its organizers triumphant that their mission — celebrating the very best in world cinema as an inherently theatrical expertise — has persevered.
“The films are back in theaters and the public is back in theaters,” stated Knobloch. “The moviemakers, the artists, the professionals are all in agreement. Nothing can replace the cultural event represented by a release in a theater for a movie.”
Joining Rohrwacher, the Italian director of “Happy as Lazzaro,” in competitors are 5 extra feminine administrators: France’s Catherine Breillat with “Last Summer”; Austria’s Jessica Hausner with “Club Zero”; France’s Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall”; Senegalese-French director Ramata-Toulaye Sy with “Banel & Adama”; and Tunisia’s Kaouther Ben Hania with the documentary “Olfa’s Daughters.”
Cannes has typically come underneath criticism for choosing few movies by ladies for its prestigious competitors lineup. Only two feminine filmmakers have ever gained the Palme d’Or: Jane Campion in 1993 for “The Piano” and Julia Ducournau in 2021 for “Titane.” While six out of 19 movies is a brand new excessive, it nonetheless falls beneath the parity that some have sought.
Several of Cannes’ splashiest premieres had already been introduced. “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” will debut in Cannes, together with a particular tribute to Harrison Ford, as will Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” his big-budget adaptation for Apple of David Grann’s non-fiction bestseller. Fremaux stated he urged Scorsese to display “Killers of the Flower Moon” in competitors on the pageant, however it is not at the moment scheduled to compete for the Palme.
On Tuesday, Cannes stated that the Pedro Almodóvar quick “Strange Way of Life,” with Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke, will even premiere on the pageant.
Cannes will get underway May 16 with the opening-night choice “Jeanne du Barry,” starring Johnny Depp as King Louis XV. The movie, directed by and co-starring the French actress and filmmaker Maïwenn, has been billed as Depp’s comeback movie following his explosive trial final 12 months with Amber Heard, his ex-wife. The pageant runs via May 27.
The much-anticipated HBO sequence “The Idol”, from “Euphoria” creator Sam Levinson and starring the Weeknd and Lily-Rose Depp, will even debut in Cannes. Steve McQueen, the director of “12 Years a Slave” and the movie anthology “Small Axe,” will current his “Occupied City,” a documentary about Amsterdam underneath Nazi occupation throughout World War II.
The jury that may resolve the Palme d’Or will this 12 months be led by the Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund, a two-time Palme winner. After successful Cannes prime honor for 2017’s “The Square,” Östlund gained final 12 months for the social satire “Triangle of Sadness.”
Cannes is coming off a film 12 months that has bolstered the French pageant’s place as arguably the premiere worldwide launching pad for movie. Three of this 12 months’s best-picture nominees on the Oscars premiered in Cannes: “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Elvis” and “Triangle of Sadness.”
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