Elsewhere in the main competition, some major international titles have caught our eye. The Belgian Dardenne brothers are back with The Young Mother’
Elsewhere in the main competition, some major international titles have caught our eye. The Belgian Dardenne brothers are back with The Young Mother’s Home; they’ve twice won the Palme d’Or and are best known stateside for directing Marion Cotillard to an Oscar nomination for Two Days, One Night. Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent, starring Wagner Moura, is a buzzy title from Brazil that tackles subject matter similar to that of last year’s Oscar-winning sensation I’m Still Here. And Iranian legend Jafar Panahi (This Is Not a Film) is back with A Simple Accident, three years after his last movie, No Bears, was made illegally and in secret—not unlike last year’s Oscar-nominated Cannes premiere The Seed of the Sacred Fig.
Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning was already announced to be bowing out of competition in Cannes (let us all pray for a wild Tom Cruise entrance), while Robert De Niro was previously confirmed to be receiving the honorary Palme. Finally, the Un Certain Regard competition, which recognizes emerging filmmakers, has accepted the directorial debuts of Harris Dickinson (Urchin) and Scarlett Johansson (Eleanor the Great), the latter of which already has distribution secured with Sony Pictures Classics. (Johansson also plays a supporting role in the recent Wes Anderson movie.) Kristen Stewart’s first film, The Chronology of Water, had also been rumored for a Cannes bow but was nowhere to be seen in today’s announcement. We’ll see if that or the many other movies that have been circling Cannes get added at a later date, since rumor is that the slate is not yet complete. Stay tuned, and check out the full selection as of now below. This story has been updated.
Competition
Alpha, Julie Ducournau
Dossier 137, Dominik Moll
The Eagles of the Republic, Tarik Saleh
Eddington, Ari Aster
Fuori, Mario Martone
The History of Sound, Oliver Hermanus
La Petite Derniere, Hafsia Herzi
The Mastermind, Kelly Reichardt
Nouvelle Vague, Richard Linklater
The Phoenician Scheme, Wes Anderson
Renoir, Chie Hayakawa
Romeria, Carla Simone
The Secret Agent, Kleber Mendonça Filho
Sentimental Value, Joachim Trier
A Simple Accident, Jafar Panahi
Sirat, Oliver Laxe
Sound of Falling, Mascha Schilinksi
Two Prosecutors, Sergei Loznitsa
Young Mothers, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Un Certain Regard
Aisha Can’t Fly Away, Morad Mostafa
Eleanor the Great, Scarlett Johansson
Heads or Tails?, Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis
Homebound, Neeraj Ghaywan
Karavan, Zuzana Kirchnerová
L’inconnu de la Grande Arche, Stéphane Demoustier
The Last One for the Road, Francesco Sossai
Meteors, Hubert Charuel
My Father’s Shadow, Akinola Davies Jr
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo, Diego Céspedes
Once Upon A Time In Gaza, Tarzan Nasser and Arab Nasser
A Pale View of the Hills, Kei Ishikawa
Pillion, Harry Lighton
The Plague, Charlie Polinger
Promised Sky, Erige Sehiri
Urchin, Harris Dickinson
Out of Competition
Colours of Time, Cedric Klapisch
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Christopher McQuarrie
Partir un jour, Amélie Bonnin (opening film)
The Richest Woman in the World, Thierry Klifa
Vie Privée, Rebecca Zlotowski
Special Screenings
Bono: Stories of Surrender, Andrew Dominik
The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol, Sylvain Chomet
Tell Her I Love Her, Romane Bohringer
Midnight Screenings
Dalloway, Yann Gozlan
Exit 8, Kawamura Genki
Songs of the Neon Night, Juno Mak
Cannes Premiere
Amrum, Fatih Akin
Connemara, Alex Lutz
The Disappearance of Josef Mengele, Kirill Serebrennikov
Orwell: 2+2 =5, Raoul Peck
Splitsville, Michael Angelo Covino
The Wave, Sebastián Lelio
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