This year many interesting movies will be screened at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, among which a few are the noted ones we are excited to see.
The Cannes International Film Festival is a huge affair and this year. It is being held in the French Riviera. The 10-day festival began today i.e. on May 16 and will go on till May 27.
This year, the line-up includes Jacob Elordi’s ‘Oh, Canada’, ‘Emilia Perez’ starring Selena Gomez, and Indian actress Radhika Apte’s film Sister Midnight. Let’s take a look at a few movies that will be screened at the festival:
1) Kinds of Kindness
Kinds of Kindness is a triptych of stories that features a to-die-for cast — including Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Jesse Plemons, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn, Hunter Schafer, and Mamadou Athie — many of whom play different roles in all three chapters.
2) Emilia Perez
All we know about this latest project is that it involves a lawyer (Zoe Saldana), a cartel drug lord yearning “to become the woman he has already dreamt of being,” and Selena Gomez. Also, it’s a musical.
3) Furiosa
Mad Max: Fury Road had a massive, out-of-competition gala screening at Cannes back in 2015, so it’s no surprise that George Miller would premiere its follow-up prequel which gives us the origin story of Max’s female cohort, the mighty Imperator Furiosa.
4) All We Imagine As Light
All We Imagine As Light follows the story of two roommates who serve as nurses at a hospital. How love and self-discovery bring about a change in their perspectives forms the crux of the story.
The film will be the 1st Indian film in the main segment (Palme d’Or) of Cannes, the last was Swaham which was released in 1994.
5) ‘Oh Canada’
A writer (Richard Gere) decides to make peace with his past as an American who moved to the Great White North to avoid being drafted during the Vietnam War. His decision to tell all does not sit well with his friends and loved ones, however. Uma Thurman, Michael Imperioli, and current It guy Jacob Elordi co-star.
6) Rumours
The logline of this dream-like fable is that a group of world leaders has gathered for the annual G7 summit. Then the night before a presentation, they all get lost in the woods, and … who knows what happens next. Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander, Denis Ménochet, Nikki Amuka-Bird, and Charles Dance are among those stuck in this waking nightmare; if it’s even half as wonderful as My Winnipeg, we’re in for a treat.
7) Megalopolis
American epic science fiction drama film written, directed, and produced by Francis Ford Coppola. Set in an imagined modern America following a devastating disaster, the film features an ensemble cast, including Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, Jason Schwartzman, Talia Shire, Grace VanderWaal, Laurence Fishburne, Kathryn Hunter, and Dustin Hoffman.
8) The Apprentice
The Apprentice is an upcoming biographical drama film directed by Ali Abbasi and written by Gabriel Sherman. Starring Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump, the film examines Trump’s career as a real estate businessman in New York in the 1970s and 80s. The film also stars Jeremy Strong, Maria Bakalova, and Martin Donovan.
9) Bird
If you’ve seen British filmmaker Andrea Arnold’s work, then you know she has a knack for finding poignancy in hardscrabble lives.
A 12-year-old girl (Nykia Adams) lives in Kent with her father (Barry Keoghan) and brother (Jason Buda). A mysterious stranger (Passages‘ Franz Rogowski) soon enters the picture.
10) It’s Not Me (C’est Pas Moi)
It’s Not Me; in other words: a classic Carax! It’s French cinema’s reigning terrible-slash-oddball genius.
A 40-minute featurette of experimental autofiction, casting his longtime collaborator and screen counterpart in which Denis Levant plays both the director and what we’re told is a host of past characters from Carax’s movies.
