From the long-awaited return of Francis Ford Coppola to a film about a young Donald Trump, these are the 22 films in competition at the 77th Cannes Film Festival and a selection of the main films out of competition.
-In competition-
– “Megalopolis” by Francis Ford Coppola
The most anticipated film in the competition, with a budget of more than $100 million, revolves around the destruction and reconstruction of a megalopolis. Stars involved in the story include Adam Driver and Forest Whitaker. Coppola has won two Palme d’Ors: for “The Conversation” in 1974 and for “Apocalypse Now” in 1979.
– “The Apprentice” by Ali Abbasi
After “Border” and “Holy Spider”, the Danish director of Iranian origin tells the story of a young Donald Trump, in the midst of creating his real estate empire in the 1970s-80s.
– “Motel Destino” by Karim Aïnouz
After the British historical drama “Firebrand”, in competition last year in Cannes, the Brazilian returns to film in his country and presents this “sexual comedy” that explores the question of desire in 2024, according to the organizers.
– “Bird” de Andrea Arnold
The British filmmaker, known for exploring the margins of society, tells the story of a teenager in an English suburb, starring Barry Keoghan (“Saltburn”).
– “Emilia Pérez” by Jacques Audiard
Palme d’Or in 2015 with “Dheepan”, the French filmmaker presents a film between a thriller and a musical set in Mexico, with a drug cartel boss who wants to change his sex to escape from the authorities. Selena Gomez, Zoe Saldaña and Edgar Ramírez are in the cast.
– “Anora” by Sean Baker
A prominent figure in independent cinema, the American director of “The Florida Project” follows the steps of a sex worker between New York and Las Vegas.
– “The Shrouds” de David Cronenberg
The Canadian, known for his gore universe, imagines a system that allows us to connect with the missing, in a film about the loss of loved ones, with Vincent Cassel and Diane Kruger.
– “The substance” by Coralie Fargeat
The Frenchwoman, author of “Revenge” in 2018, presents a gore film “with a lot of blood on the screen”, in the words of the organizers of the contest, and which marks the return to the foreground of Demi Moore.
– “Grand tour” by Miguel Gomes
The Portuguese filmmaker, known for “Tabú” (2012), tells the story of a British official installed in Burma in 1917, who abandons his fiancée to take a great trip through Asia.
– “Marcello Mio” by Christophe Honoré
Marcello Mastroianni, who died in 1996, is remembered by his daughter Chiara, along with his mother Catherine Deneuve and other close friends, such as Benjamin Biolay and Melvil Poupaud.
– “Caught by the tides” de Jia Zhang-Ke
The Chinese filmmaker presents a film epic that crosses all his films and 25 years of history of a country in full mutation, with his muse and wife, Zhao Tao.
– “All we imagine as light” de Payal Kapadia
The director films two women who share a flat in India and the intimate desires that emerge during a trip to a coastal city.
– “Kind of Kindness” de Yorgos Lanthimos
The Greek director works again with his favorite actress Emma Stone, winner of an Oscar for “Poor Creatures”, in this film that tells three stories. Willem Defoe and Margaret Qualley also return to the cast.
– “Phew love” by Gilles Lellouche
After the success of “The Big Bath”, presented out of competition a few years ago, the French actor follows the unlikely relationship of a couple over time, played by François Civil and Adèle Exarchopoulos, among many other well-known names in French cinema.
– “Rough Diamond” by Agathe Riedinger
First film by this French director, about the dreams and utopias of a teenager and social networks in the south of France.
– “Oh, Canada” by Paul Schrader
The American filmmaker works again with Richard Gere, whom he directed in “American Gigolo” (1980), in this adaptation of a book by Russell Banks. A famous documentary filmmaker at death’s door grants a last interview to one of his disciples, a confession filmed before the eyes of his wife.
– “The Most Precious of Cargoes” de Michel Hazanavicius
The first animated film in competition since “Waltz with Bashir” (2008), it tells the story of a baby who is thrown from the train transporting his Jewish parents to Auschwitz and discovered by a Polish couple. It is directed by Frenchman Hazanavicius, Oscar winner for “The Artist.”
– “The seed of the sacred fig” de Mohammad Rasoulof
It is not certain that this Iranian filmmaker, imprisoned for having criticized his country’s regime, will be able to attend the contest. Several of his films have already received awards in the parallel section of Un Certain Regard.
– “Limonov, the ballad of Eddie” de Kirill Serebrennikov
After “Tchaikovsky’s Wife,” the exiled Russian director focuses on dissident Russian writer Eduard Limonov, played by Ben Whishaw, in this adaptation of Emmanuel Carrère’s novel.
– “Three kilometres to the end of the world” de Emanuel Parvu
The story of a homosexual teenager in a conservative town in Romania.
– “Parthenope” by Paolo Sorrentino
The director of “The Great Beauty” films the impossible loves of a young woman, in a story set in Naples.
– “The girl with the Needle” de Magnus Von Horn
A period film about the story of Dagmar Overbye, who murdered dozens of newborns in Copenhagen in the 1910s and was sentenced to life in prison.
– Out of competition –
Some of the main films screened at the contest.
– “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” by George Miller
The prequel to the famous science fiction saga, also directed by Miller, stars the American actress of Argentine origins Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth.
– “Horizon, An American Saga” de Kevin Costner
The author of “Dances with Wolves” presents a multi-part western starring himself and Sienna Miller.
– “Lula” by Oliver Stone
The veteran American filmmaker releases a documentary about Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, his imprisonment between 2018 and 2019, and his return to power.
– “El conde de Montecristo” by Alexandre de la Patelliere and Matthieu Delaporte
A new adaptation of the famous novel by Alexandre Dumas with Pierre Niney in the lead role.
– “Rumours” de Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson y Guy Maddin
Alicia Vikander and Cate Blanchett play two of the leaders participating in a G7 summit.
– “The Invasion” by Sergei Loznitsa
The Ukrainian director wonders about the consequences of the invasion of one country to the other.
With information from France Media Agency
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2024-05-07 12:53:09