Celebrating its anniversary, the Cannes Festival invited big names in the field of cinematography to its 75th anniversary competition. four of them Hirokazu Kore-eda, Cristian Mungiu, Ruben Östlund and brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc DardenneAlready distinguished by the Palme d’Or, once again aspirant to the award.
Japanese Kore-eda, who was awarded the ‘A Family Affair’ award in 2018, enters the competition with ‘A Family Affair’.Free‘; Dardennes, who was praised for ‘Rosett’ in 1999 and ‘L’enfant’ in 2005, said that ‘Tori and Lokita‘ and Swedish Östlund, who surprised him with ‘The Square’ in 2017, returns with ‘Kroisette’.triangle of sadness‘.
Romanian Mungiu completes the group, It seeks to reaffirm the maximum title with “RMN” on the impact of European policies in Transylvania, which topped the list of winners with “4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days” in 2007, and this year, as detailed this Thursday by the general delegate. Thierry Frémaux announced that an edition is scheduled to run from May 17-28.
Choosing from 2,200 films, the organizers included French Arnaud Desplechin with ‘Frère et soeu’, Claire Denis with ‘Stars at noon’ shot in Central America, and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi with ‘Les amandiers’.
Canadian David Cronenberg‘Crimes of the Future’, a regular at Cannes and worthy of a special jury award with ‘Crash’ in 1996, heralded one of the most sought-after red carpets starring Kristen Stewart, Léa Seydoux and Viggo Mortensen. It returns with ‘. .
Likewise the expected scan will be ‘The Time of Armageddon’, del estadounidense James Graywith Anne Hathaway and Anthony Hopkinsin a competition announcing 18 titles, none of which are Hispanic or Latin American, but will be expanded in the coming days.
back to normal
According to Frémaux, this will be a print that can be considered as such. Back to normal after the pandemic: His physical celebration was canceled in 2020 due to health restrictions and took place in July 2021.
The official competition isn’t the only one featuring outstanding filmmakers. It was already known that the film, the sequel to Baz Luhrmann’s biopic ‘Elvis’ and Joseph Kosinski’s ‘Top Gun’, ‘Top Gun: Maverick’, would come without a bidder. a Tom Cruise He said he would take “a huge tribute” to the “quality of his dedication to cinema.”On the Frémaux palabras.
This Thursday featured, among others, ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’ and Australian George Miller, and current events fully enter the festival with ‘Novembre’ about the investigation of Frenchman Cédric Jimenez’s 13 November 2015 attacks in Paris. , whose trial is happening right now.
In the midst of the war in Ukraine, this is not the only salute to the current geopolitical context.
Ukrainian Maksim Nakonechnyi will present his first feature film ‘Butterfly Vision’ in the Un Certain Regard section.Sergei Loznitsa, the most important documentary producer in the recent history of that country, will be showing ‘Natural History of Destruction’, the sequel to ‘Babi Yar’, which was shot in Donbas a few months ago. Context’ premiered at Cannes last year.
The festival had vetoed official Russian delegations in line with the sanctions imposed by the international community. opened its doors to Kirill Serebrennikov, who left his country and a movie about Tchaikovsky’s wife.
Ethan Cohen with ‘Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind’ in private sessions, Brett Morgen in what happened at midnight ‘Moonage Daydream’, in which David Bowie talks about his interest in cinema and was a pioneer in video clips or Marco Bellocchi at the Cannes Première giving equal weight to this 75th Cannes with ‘Esterno Notte’.
The competition will open with French Michel Hazanavicius ‘Z (comme Z)’, Romain Duris and Bérénice Bejo, and there is currently only one Hispanic title: ‘Sunday and the Fog’, Costa Rica’s second film, Ariel Escalante, Selected at Un Certain Regard .
“Very promising. We’ll see if we have a big company of the future,” he said of himself and his director, Frémaux. Traveling around the world” would be “love”.