The Cannes Film Festival kicked off this week with Maïwenn’s “Jeanne du Barry,” featuring Johnny Depp as Louis XV, and will conclude on May 27 with Pixar’s new film, “Elemental.” In between, there will be numerous screenings, awards ceremonies, and awkward standing ovations. As a first-time attendee, I am paying close attention to the goings-on and trying to understand the difference between an “Official Selection” and “Un Certain Regard” and other designations I’ll see on marketing materials for Cannes-affiliated films in the coming months.
Among the films in competition this year, I am most excited about Todd Haynes’s “May December,” starring Julianne Moore and Charles Melton as a couple whose marriage is tested when an actress researching her role arrives. Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City” also looks promising, featuring many members of the Andersonian repertory and inspiring a million TikToks.
Other notable films include “Firebrand” from Brazilian director Karim Aïnouz, with Alicia Vikander playing Catherine Parr, the sixth and final wife of Henry VIII, played by Jude Law. Hirokazu Kore-eda, whose film “Shoplifters” won the Palme d’Or in 2018, has a new film, “Monster,” starring Sakura Ando from “Shoplifters,” with the score composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto, who passed away last month.
In the out-of-competition category, we have James Mangold’s “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” the first Indy movie directed by someone other than Steven Spielberg, with Phoebe Waller-Bridge joining the cast. Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro and is based on the David Grann book about the murders of members of the Osage tribe in the 1920s.
Other films of interest include Steve McQueen’s documentary “Occupied City,” about the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, Wim Wenders’s “Anselm,” a 3-D documentary about the artist Anselm Kiefer, and “Perfect Days,” about a Japanese toilet cleaner. Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest” is based on the Martin Amis novel about a Nazi officer who falls in love with the Auschwitz commandant’s wife, and Cate Blanchett plays a nun in “The New Boy,” by Australian filmmaker Warwick Thornton.
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