Cannes, its films, its Croisette, its glitter and its shower of stars… The largest film festival in the world will be held this year from May 14 to 25. And during this 77th edition, perhaps even more than usual, big names in the seventh art will parade on the red carpet. Who will win the Palme d’Or and succeed “Anatomy of a Fall” and its very beautiful story, crowned last year before winning the Oscar for best screenplay? A quick summary of what awaits us during this fortnight.
It is Quentin Dupieux’s film, “The Second Act”, with Léa Seydoux and Vincent Lindon, which will be presented as an opening, out of competition, on Tuesday May 14. This feature film from the director of “Smoking Makes You Cough” and “Yannick” will be released in theaters the same day. An honorary Palme d’Or will be awarded to George Lucas for his entire career, as well as to the animation studio Ghibli, co-founded by Hayao Miyazaki.
The official competition, not yet fully finalized, is already getting tough. First of all, it is the great return of Francis Ford Coppola with “Megalopolis”, 45 years after his second Palme d’Or for “Apocalypse Now” (1979). The 85-year-old cinema giant won his first Palme d’Or with “Secret Conversation” in 1974.
Among the other highly anticipated films, “The Shrouds”, by David Cronenberg, “Marcello mio”, by Christophe Honoré, “Emilia Perez”, by Jacques Audiard, “L’amour ouf”, by Gilles Lellouche, but also, “Parthenope », by Paolo Sorrentino or “The most precious of goods” by Michel Hazanavicius.
Films in official competition
- “The Apprentice” by Ali Abbasi
- “Motel Destino” by Karim Aïnouz
- “Bird” by Andrea Arnold
- “Emilia Perez” by Jacques Audiard
- “Anora” by Sean Baker
- “Megalopolis” by Francis Ford Coppola
- “The Shrouds” by David Cronenberg
- “The Substance” by Coralie Fargeat
- “Grand Tour” by Miguel Gomes
- “The Most Precious of Goods” by Michel Hazanavicius
- “Marcello mio” by Christophe Honoré
- “Feng Liu Yi Dai” by Jia Zhang-Ke (“Caught by the Tides”)
- “All we Imagine as Light” by Payal Kapadia
- “Kinds of Kindness” by Yorgos Lanthimos
- “L’Amour ouf” by Gilles Lellouche
- “Trei kilometri până la capătul lumii” by Emanuel Pârvu (“Three kilometers to the end of the world”)
- “Rough Diamond” by Agathe Riedinger | 1st movie
- “Oh, Canada” by Paul Schrader
- “Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie” by Kirill Serebrennikov
- “Parthenope” by Paolo Sorrentino
- “Pigen med nålen” by Magnus von Horn (“The Young Lady with a Needle”)
Out of competition, cinema legends will come to present their latest baby. For example, there will be George Miller and his “Furiosa”, a new chapter in his “Mad Max” saga. Kevin Costner, another regular at the Croisette, will unveil “Horizon: An American Saga”, a project in several episodes on the conquest of the American West of which he is the director and one of the actors alongside Sienna Miller. Also highly anticipated is “The Count of Monte Cristo” by Alexandre de la Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte with Pierre Niney, Anaïs Demoustier and Laurent Lafitte.
Films presented out of competition
- “She’s got no name” by Chan Peter Ho-Sun
- “The Count of Monte Cristo” by Alexandre De La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte
- “Horizon: An American Saga” by Kevin Costner
- “Rumors” by Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson and Guy Maddin
- “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” by George Miller
In “Midnight Screenings”, festival-goers will be able to discover Noémie Merlant’s second feature film as director, “Les Femmes au balcon”.
Midnight sessions
- “Twilight of the Warriors: Walled in” by Soi Cheang
- “The Surfer” by Lorcan Finnegan
- “Women on the Balcony” by Noémie Merlant
- “I, the Executioner” by Ryoo Seung-Wan
The “Un certain regard” category will be the opportunity to see the first films of Céline Sallette, “Niki”, and Laetitia Dosch “The Trial of the Dog”.
Category “A certain look”
- “When the Light Breaks” by Rúnar Rúnarsson
- “Norah” by Tawfik Alzaidi | 1st movie
- “The Shameless” by Konstantin Bojanov
- “The Kingdom” by Julien Colonna | 1st movie
- “Twenty Gods” by Louise Courvoisier | 1st movie
- “The Trial of the Dog” by Laetitia Dosch | 1st movie (dog on trial)
- “Gou zhen” by Guan Hu (“Black Dog”)
- “The Village Next to Paradise” by Mo Harawe | 1st movie
- “September says” by Ariane Labed | 1st movie
- “The Story of Souleymane” by Boris Lojkine
- “The Damned” by Roberto Minervini
- “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” by Rungano Nyoni
- “Boku no Ohisama” by Hiroshi Okuyama (“My Sunshine”)
- “Niki” by Céline Sallette | 1st movie
- “Santosh” by Sandhya Suri
- “Viet and Nam” by Minh Quý Truong
- “Armand” by Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel | 1st movie
- “Flow” by Gints Zilbalodis
In the Cannes Première category, we expect a lot from “Maria”, a film by Jessica Palud on the life of Maria Schneider, actress of “Last Tango in Paris”.
“Cannes Première” selection
- “Everybody Loves Touda” by Nabil Ayouch
- “It’s not me” by Leos Carax
- “En fanfare” by Emmanuel Courcol
- “Mercy” by Alain Guiraudie
- “Le Roman de Jim” by Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Marie Larrieu
- “Live, Die, Reborn” by Gaël Morel
- “Maria” by Jessica Palud
- “Rendezvous with Pol Pot” by Rithy Panh
“Le Fil” by Daniel Auteuil, “Spectators! », by Arnaud Depleschin, “Ernest Cole, photographer” by Raoul Peck, “Learn”, documentary by Claire Simon or “Lula”, documentary by Oliver Stone on the former Brazilian president, will be presented in “Special Session” .
Special sessions
- “The Wire” by Daniel Auteuil
- “Spectators! » by Arnaud Desplechin
- “Nasty” by Tudor Giurgiu, Tudor D. Popescu and Cristian Pascariu
- “An Unfinished Film” by Lou Ye
- “Ernest Cole, Photographer” by Raoul Peck
- “The Invasion” by Sergei Loznitsa
- “Learn” by Claire Simon
- “Lula” by Oliver Stone
- “The Beauty of Gaza” by Yolande Zauberman
The 2024 edition innovates by offering a new category, the “Immersive Competition” with eight competing creations, collective virtual reality installations, mixed reality experiences and video mapping and holographic works. Among them, “Noire” taken from the book by Tania de Montaigne.
Immersive competition
- “In love” by Claire Bardainne, Adrien Mondot, Laurent Bardainne
- “Evolver” by Barnaby Steel, Ersin Han Ersin, Robin McNicholas
- “Human violins: prelude” by Ioana Mischie
- “Maya, birth of a superhero” by Poulomi Basu, CJ Clarke
- “Noire” by Tania de Montaigne, Stéphane Foenkinos, Pierre-Alain Giraud – France, Taiwan
- “Telos I” by Dorotea Saykaly, Emil Dam Seidel – Canada, Sweden, Denmark, world premiere
- “The Roaming” by Mathieu Pradat – France, Luxembourg, Canada
- “Traversing the Mist” by Tung-Yen Chou – Taiwan
Valeria Golino will also present her series, broadcast in theaters in Italy, “The Art of Joy”, adaptation of the novel by Goliarda Sapienza with Jasmine Trinca and Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi.
Two films for young audiences will be presented
- “Savages” by Claude Barras
- “Angelo, in the mysterious forest” by Vincent Paronnaud and Alexis Ducord
