At 11:00 this morning. Thierry Fremaux The artistic director of the Festival de Cannes gave the most anticipated press conference for each year. cinephilia global: Presentation of the titles that will participate in the next edition of the French competition, which will be held from 17 to 28 May.
The first thing to note is that the rumors are just that: David Lynch isn’t expected to happen this year, as the director himself was responsible for saying he was secretly making a movie after the news and that could happen. He was seen at Cannes this year, he does not have any films in the series.
There will also be other headlines that have been circulating in the media and social networks for weeks. The second installment was started by ‘super weapon‘, out of competition and with a tribute to Tom Cruise. Also confirmedfuture crimes‘, the return David Cronenberg eight years after making the movie.
Viggo Mortensen, Lea Seydoux Y Kristen Stewart The star of this story is set in a future world where there is no pain and humanity adapts to a synthetic environment: naive Cronenberg.
James Gray represents American cinema
Recurring names, like those of the Japanese, will not be missing from the appointment. koreaSiblings Dardenne, Ruben Ostlund (Palm en 2017 con ‘The Square’), Cristian Mungiu (also deserves the Palme d’Or for ‘4 months, 3 weeks, two days’ in 2007) and Park Chan-wook.
For now – the list is not closed – another well-loved director will represent American cinema at Cannes, James Graythat will come withArmageddon time‘ is an adult drama set in Queens, New York in the 1980s. Anne Hathaway Y Anthony Hopkins in front of the staff.
The walking dead in the comic key
The sensible war horse of the event, French cinema will have a large delegation. ‘Frere et soeur’, by Arnaud DespechinIt is the history of the relationship between two brothers, played by Marion Cotillard Y Melvil PopupaudAfter 20 years, after the death of their parents, they came together again without speaking.
Michael Hazanavicius It takes it with immortal cinema, albeit in a comical key (which evokes silent cinema in “The Artist” and Jean-Luc Godard’s Maoist scene in “Bad Genius”):Z (like Z)‘, a remake japanese movie From five years ago, Slice of the Dead chronicles the woes of the crew of a cheap zombie movie attacked by real zombies. The movie will open the competition.
from drama to movie
Olivier Assayasmeanwhile, he extended one of his best films, ‘Irma Vep‘ (1996), focusing on an American actress (Alicia Wikander) reaching Paris For a role in the remake of Louis Feuillade’s classic French drama ‘Les vampires’.
‘Les amandiers’ is connotation by director and actress Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi from work at the prestigious drama school he directed. patrice chereauembodied here Louis Garrel. And Claire Denis tells ‘stars at noon‘, a Franco-American co-production, is the relationship between a journalist and a businessman in the conflict-ridden Nicaragua of 1984.
Russia and Ukraine present at the festival
Joining Bruni-Tedeschi and Denis on ‘Showing up’ is another director, Kelley Reichardt, who has once again worked with his favorite actress. Michelle Williams, to describe the experiences of an artist before the opening of an exhibition of his works.
a complete conflict between Russia Y Ukraineboth countries will take part in Cannes’Tchaikovsky’s wife‘TO’Natural history of destruction‘ is the latest work of Ukrainian Sergei Loznitsa, although he filmed it with Russian Kirill Serebrennikov, long-time opposition to the Putin government, and Lithuanian economic participation.
The festival will also feature a portrait of two long-awaited rock documentaries, ‘Moonage daydreams’. David Bowie ‘Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in mind’ produced by Brett Morgen and directed by Ethan Coen for IMAX.