Twenty-one films are in competition at the 78th Cannes Film Festival, which opens Tuesday May 13 and will award its Palme d’Or on May 24:
– “A simple accident”, by Jafar Panahi. The mystery remains on this new film by the Iranian director, which did not want to let anything filter.
– “The Phoenician Scheme”, from the American Wes Anderson. A comedy carried by Benicio Del Toro, with a skewer of stars including Tom Hanks, Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson and Mia Threapleton, the daughter of Kate Winslet.
– “young Mothers”, by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. The Belgian brothers, who won two golden palms (“Rosetta” in 1999 and “the child” in 2005), retrace the history of five young women hosted in a maternal house which helps them to take a foothold in their life as mothers.
– “Alpha”, by Julia Ducournau. Four years after her golden palm for “Titane”, the Frenchwoman presents a new film with Golshifteh Farahani and Tahar Rahim, the story of a little girl confronted with the AIDS epidemic in the 80s.
– “Sentimental Value”, of the Norwegian Joachim Trier, with its actress Renate Reinsve (“Julie (in 12 chapters)”) and Stellan Skarsgård playing a director on the return who tries to reconnect as best they can with her daughters.
– “Romería”, by Carla Simón. The Spanish director returns to her traumatic childhood with this family trip from a young Catalan to Galicia after having lost her parents of AIDS.
– “Sound of Falling”, from the German Mascha Schilinski. A drama that brings together four women of four different generations within the same farm.
– “The eagles of the Republic”, of the Swedish-Egyptian Tarik Saleh. On the verge of losing everything, the most adulated actor in Egypt accepts the role of the president in a biopic to his glory, at his own risk.
– “The Mastermind”, by the American Kelly Reichardt. The story of a robbery of works of art organized against the backdrop of war of Vietnam and the emerging movement of the liberation of women, with Josh O’Connor.
– “File 137”, from French Dominik Moll (“La Nuit du 12”). Léa Drucker plays the role of an investigator at IGPN, the police police in France, after a tense demonstration during which a young man was injured by an LBD shot.
-– “The secret agent”, from the Brazilian Kleber Mendonça Filho. A political thriller which took place in the late 1970s, during the last years of the Brazilian military dictatorship.
“” Future “, of Italian-marion Martone.” A bopic on the netere, other Italian-Polish, with general gulland.
– “Two prosecutors”, from Ukrainian Sergei Loznitsa. A film that takes place in the USSR of the 1930s, at the time of Stalinist purges.
– “New wave”, from the American Richard Linklater. A film on the shooting of “à Bout de Boute de Jean-Luc Godard.
– “Sirat”, from the Spaniard Oliver Laxe. A “road movie of quirky people, people out of society”, according to the general delegate of the festival, Thierry Frémaux.
– “The last little one”, by Hafsia Herzi. The French actress and director freely adapts the eponymous novel of Fatima Daas, telling the story of a young Muslim and homosexual woman.
– “The History of Sound”, from the South African Oliver Hermanus. During the First World War, two young men decided to record the lives, voices and music of their American compatriots. With Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor in this gay romance.
– “Renoir”, from Japanese Chie Hayakawa. A drama on the transition to adulthood, resilience, the healing power of imagination and a traumatized family that fights to get closer.
– “Eddington”, from the American Ari Aster. The new king of the genre film (“Midsommar”) recounts the confrontation between a sheriff and a mayor with New Mexico. With Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone and Austin Butler.
– “Die, My Love” by the British Lynne Ramsay. This thriller on a young mother falling into depression and anxieties brings together a Hollywood cast with Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson.
– “Mother and Child” by Iranian Saeed Roustaee. After “Leïla and his brothers”, the director returns with a family drama on a widowed nurse struggling with her rebellious son. With Parinaz Izadyar (viewed in “The law of Tehran”).
