Ken Loach, Wes Anderson and Catherine Breillat will be on the Croisette this year, for the 76th Cannes Film Festival which starts on Tuesday May 16.
Cannes has just rolled out the red carpet at the Palais des Festivals, and hung the poster for this 76th edition, bearing the image of Catherine Deneuve. The kick-off will be given on Tuesday 16 May.
From American Wes Anderson to Briton Ken Loach via Frenchwoman Catherine Breillat, here are the 21 films in the running for the Palme d’Or at this festival, which runs until May 27.
“Club Zero” by Jessica Hausner
Noticed in 2019 with Little Joethe Austrian filmmaker is making a film about youth, with Mia Wasikowska in the role of a teacher, who forges very strong ties with five of her students.
“The Zone of Interest” de Jonathan Glazer
Based on a book by British Martin Amis, the director ofUnder the skin enters the competition with a story set in Auschwitz. That of a Nazi officer who fell in love with the wife of the commandant of the extermination camp.
“Fallen Leaves” by Aki Kaurismaki
Finnish filmmaker The man without a past (Grand Prix in 2002 at Cannes), master of melancholy, returns with his 19th film, a tragi-comedy about the meeting between two loners, by chance, one night in Helsinki.
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“The Daughters of Olfa” by Kaouther Ben Hania
The Tunisian director (The beast and the pack) will enter the competition with this documentary, a film “on the edge of the essay” according to Thierry Frémaux, about a Tunisian woman confronted with the disappearance of two of her four daughters.
“Asteroid City” de Wes Anderson
Two years later The French Dispatch and his line-up of stars, the American director once again brings together a crazy cast – Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman, Tilda Swinton and Margot Robbie – in a fictional American town bringing together parents and students for scholarly competitions.
“Anatomy of a Fall” by Justine Triet
After “Sibyl” in 2019, the Frenchwoman Justine Triet is back in competition. Her 4th feature film tells the story of a woman accused of the murder of her husband, with the German Sandra Hüller in the title role, who conquered the Croisette in 2016 with “Toni Erdmann”.
“Monster” d’Hirokazu Kore-eda
Return to Japan for the filmmaker, Palme d’or in 2018 with A family matterafter breakaways in France and Korea (The lucky starsin competition last year), for a film set in a school setting.
“Towards a Bright Future” by Nanni Moretti
Shot at the Cinecitta studios in Rome, the Italian’s new opus, after Three floors, promises to talk about “cinema, circus and the 50s”. With his favorite actress Margherita Buy and the French Mathieu Amalric.
“The Chimera” by Alice Rohrwacher
The Italian, used to competition, returns with “La Chimera”, about a young archaeologist mixed with a group of grave robbers in Italy in the 80s.
“Dried herbs” by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
The Turkish filmmaker, Palme d’or 2014 with “Winter Sleep”, returns with a drama set in Anatolia at the center of which a teacher is confronted with accusations of harassment.
“Last Summer” by Catherine Breillat
Ten years after his last film Abuse of weaknessand serious health problems, the sulphurous director focuses on a mother whose life changes following an affair with her stepson.
“The Passion of Dodin Bouffant” by Tran Anh Hung
French of Vietnamese origin who had signed “The smell of green papaya” in the 90s, Tran Anh Hung adapts a novel on gastronomy, with Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel.
“The Abduction” by Marco Bellocchio
The year of the Palme d’or for the Italian giant, Palme d’honneur in 2021? At 83, he returns to the true story of Edgardo Mortara, a 6-year-old Jewish child kidnapped by the Catholic Church and forcibly converted in the 19th century.
“May December” de Todd Haynes
The American reconnects with one of his favorite actresses, Julianne Moore (“Safe”, Far from paradise”), and enlists Natalie Portman for a drama around a couple with a significant age difference.
“Firebrand” by Karim Aïnouz
The Brazilian director of “The invisible life of Eurídice Gusmão” (“Un certain regard” award in 2019) enters the competition with a period film at the court of the Tudors. Alicia Vikander plays the sixth wife of Henry VIII, played by Jude Law.
“The Old oak” de Ken Loach
“Are you sure?” asked the British veteran (86) when he learned of his new entry into competition for a social drama, shot in the northeast of England. The film recounts the meeting of a pub owner and a Syrian refugee.
“Banel & Adam” by Ramata-Toulaye
Young Senegalese director, Ramata-Toulaye Sy enters directly into competition with this first film, which tells a story of absolute love, confronted with social cconventions, in a remote village in the north of Senegal.
Also present out of competition with a documentary on visual artist Anselm Kiefer, Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire, Paris, Texas, Buena Vista Social Club) promises to surprise with a film about Japanese public toilets.
“Youth” by Wang Bing
The great Chinese documentary filmmaker, accustomed to river films on the marginalized of his country, is doubly present at Cannes (competition and special screening with “Man in black”). In “Youth”, he depicts in 03:30 the life of textile workers in a city 150 km from Shanghai.
“The Return” by Catherine Corsini
The French director, present on the Croisette in 2021 with “La Fracture”, returns with a feature film shot in Corsica on a woman working for a Parisian family who offers her to take care of the children during a vacation on the island of Beauty.
“Black Flies” by Jean-Stephane Sauvaire
Adapted from the novel “911” by American writer Shannon Burke, this thriller, starring Sean Penn in particular, follows two doctors confronted with violence in New York.
