Cannes Film Festival: The selection for the 77th edition is revealed

After greeting the previous competition “Extremely successful”with movies that “There were successes in theaters”And addressing the critics, filmmakers and Argentine artists who are currently struggling with the cultural policies of ultra-liberal President Javier Millais, Thierry Frémaux ended the suspension.

The General Delegate revealed the official selection of 77 at a press conference at the UGC Normandie in Paris on Thursday, April 11, in the presence of President Iris Knobloch.^e edition of the Cannes Film Festival (which will be held from May 14 to 25), whose jury will be headed by an actor and a director. Barbie (2023), Greta Gerwig. A choice that is not quite finished. “But our eyes hurt a little in the middle of the night”Clarified Thierry Fremaux, who, as every year, grants himself a sequel.

To date, nineteen feature films (out of two thousand views) have been selected for the official competition. The festival will open with Quentin Dupierre’s new comedy. the second act (No Contest), with Léa Seydoux, Vincent Lyndon, Louis Garrel and Rafael Quenard. Then veterans of the seventh art and young filmmakers follow each other up the steps of the Palais des Festivals.

The first and most anticipated American film director Francis Ford Coppola, who recently celebrated his 85th birthday, will return to Cannes. Megapolis, a film forty years in the making, heralded as Pharaonic – with a budget of $120 million (€112 million), a five-month shoot – which will reunite Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito and Nathalie Emmanuel, among others. In one month, the director of this film has already won the Palme d’Or twice. Secret conversationIn 1974 and Apocalypse Nowin 1979.

Another great figure of cinema, David Cronenberg will also be in the competition a garmentwith Vincent Cassel and Diane Kruger, a film which, according to Thierry Fremaux, evokes “Losing a Loved One”. Despite the long strike by screenwriters and actors in the United States for several months, Americans have a special place in this edition. After Paul Schrader (Oh, Canada) and directed by Sean Baker (Anora).

Five directors in the competition

Present in 2022 Tchaikovsky’s wifeRussian film director Kirill Serebrennikov returns to the official competition Limonov, ballad (Based on the novel by Emanuel Carrer Limonov, POL, 2011). Subscribe to the Race for the Palme d’Or (the touch of sin2013; beyond the mountains2015 year; Eternal ones2018), China’s Jia Zhang-ke is not breaking the habit and will be there with his new film, Feng Liu Yi Dai.