After the pandemic caused the disruption of the festival over the past two years, the Cannes Film Festival will finally be back in it's complete glory and perfectly timed to celebrate this international cinematic event's seventy-fifth anniversary. The fest is also back in it's usual time period in May, running from the 17th to 28th, with an exciting collection of new films premiering in the Main Competition. As to be expected, anticipated work by some of the best filmmakers in world cinema will be featured and will include Valeria Bruni Tedeschi ("Les Amandiers"), Claire Denis ("Stars At Noon"), David Cronenberg ("Crimes Of The Future"), Arnaud Desplechin ("Frère Et Soeur"), Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne ("Tori and Lokita"), James Gray ("Armageddon Time"), Ruben Ostlund ("Triangle Of Sadness"), Kelly Reichardt ("Showing Up"), Hirokazu Kore-eda ("Broker"), Cristian Mungiu ("RMN") and Park Chan-wook ("Decision To Leave").
Vincent Lindon, who co-starred in last year's Palme d'Or winner, "Titane", will be the Main Jury President presiding over the Fest. Joining the French actor to select the winners of the prizes will be British actor/filmmaker, Rebecca Hall; Norwegian filmmaker, Joachim Trier; Swedish actor, Noomi Rapace; American filmmaker, Jeff Nichols; Indian actor, Deepika Padkone; Iranian filmmaker, Asghar Farhadi; Italian actor/director, Jasmine Trinca and French actor/director, Ladj Ly.
"Coupez! (Final Cut)", from the Oscar-winning director behind "The Artist", Michel Hazanavicius, has been selected to open the festival Out of Competition. A French remake of the 2017 Japanese film, "One Cut of the Dead" features Romain Duris and the director's wife, Bérénice Bejo in this horror-comedy revolving around a crew remaking the film depicted in the original film. Other films making their world premieres out of competition will include "Top Gun: Maverick", the sequel to Tom Cruise's star-making 1986 thrilling drama. Directed by Joseph Kosinski, this new film has Cruise returning as test pilot, Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, who has purposely avoided advancement for thirty-six years, being put in charge of training a group of Top Gun graduates for a specialized mission. Miles Teller, Glen Powell, Jon Hamm, Ed Harris, Val Kilmer and Jennifer Connelly also star.
It's been eight years since George Miller's last feature film with "Mad Max: Fury Road" and the Australian director is finally back with "Three Thousand Years Of Longing". This fantasy romantic-drama features the inspired casting of Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba in this story about an encounter in Istanbul between a scholar and a djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom, leading to consequences that neither would have expected.
And "Elvis", the latest from Baz Luhrmann, will make it's world premiere at Cannes. This visually bold bio-pic on the "King of Rock & Roll" (which has received the blessing of his former wife, Priscilla Presley) will examine the life and music of Presley (played by Austin Butler) seen through his complicated relationship with his perplexing manager, Colonel Tom Parker (Tom Hanks). "Elvis" is due to be released in U.S. theaters on June 24th, two days after the rest of the globe.
Forest Whitaker will be the recipient of the honorary Palme d’or this year. The Oscar-winning actor ("The Last King of Scotland"), director ("Hope Floats", "Waiting to Exhale") and producer ("Fruitvale Station", "Passing"), previously winning the Best Actor award at Cannes for his breakout performance in Clint Eastwood’s "Bird" in 1988, will have his latest feature he has produced, "For the Sake of Peace" from Christophe Castagne and Thomas Sametin, screened at the Fest on May 18th.
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