The 79th edition of the Cannes Film Festival will take place from May 12th to 23rd, and will pit established cinema figures, such as Poland’s Pawel Pawlikowski and Spain’s Pedro Almodóvar, against a small group of new voices
Every May, the Cannes Film Festival takes the film industry’s top figures to the sunny south of France to close deals, declare their love for cinema and party on yachts. This year, when announcing the program, the festival director, Thierry Frémaux, pointed out the lack of films from major studiosas low box office revenues force Hollywood to avoid risks and scale back production. ]
“In the United States, we are in a time of transition. When there is a transition like this, there are no projects to produce many films, but I’m sure it will come back, and we will be there waiting,” he told Reuters.
A 79th edition of the Cannes Film Festival will take place from May 12th to 23rdand will pit renowned cinema figures, such as Polish Pawel Pawlikowski and Spanish Pedro Almodóvar, against a small group of new voiceswith 21 films competing for the event’s prestigious top prize next month.
Five films in competition are directed by womenincluding newcomers Lea Mysius, with the thriller “The Birthday Party”, and Jeanne Herry, with the drama “Another Day”, starring Adèle Exarchopoulos.
Two former Palme d’Or winners return to the competition: Japanese Hirokazu Kore-eda explores childhood and artificial intelligence in “Sheep in the Box”, while “Fjord”, by the Romanian director Cristian Mungiustars Norwegian actress Renate Reinsve, fresh from the Oscar-winning hit “Valor Sentimental”.
Also return to competition Pawlikowski with “Fatherland,” a portrait of German novelist Thomas Mann, and Hungarian filmmaker Laszlo Nemes, whose new film focuses on French Resistance figure Jean Moulin. Other veterans of the competition include Almodóvar, with the tragicomedy “Bitter Christmas”, as well as the Iranian Asghar Farhadithe Japanese Ryusuke Hamaguchi and French Arthur Harari.
Among the proposals with renowned actors is the 1980s AIDS drama by American director Ira Sachs, “The Man I Love”, starring Rami Malek, from “Bohemian Rhapsody”, while Javier Bardem heads the cast of “The Beloved”, by Spanish director Rodrigo Sorogoyen.
