The 76th annual Cannes Film Festival is set to begin on May 16th through May 27th. With the legendary French actress, Catherine Deneuve featured on this year's promotional poster, using a photo from the set of her 1968 movie, "La Chamade (Heartbeat)", there are nineteen feature films selected to be screened in competition. Most of these new works are by an impressive list of international filmmakers who have previously appeared at Cannes: Karim Ainouz ("Firebrand"), Wes Anderson ("Asteroid City"), Marco Bellocchio ("Rapito (Kidnapped)"), Wang Bing ("Jeunesse"), Catherine Breillat ("L’Eté Dernier"), Nuri Bilge Ceylan ("About Dry Grasses"), Kaouther Ben Hania ("Four Daughters"), Jessica Hausner ("Club Zero"), Todd Hayes ("May, December"), Tran Anh Hung ("La Passion De Dodin Bouffant"), Aki Kaurismaki ("Fallen Leaves"), Hirokazu Kore-eda ("Monster"), Ken Loach ("The Old Oak"), Nanni Moretti ("Il Sol dell’Avvenire (A Brighter Tomorrow)"), Alice Rohrwacher ("La Chimera") and Wim Wenders ("Perfect Days").
And making their first major appearance on the Croisette in the main competition are Justine Triet with her fourth feature, "Anatomie d’Une Chute (Anatomy of a Fall)"; Ramata-Toulaye Sy, the French-Senegalese filmmaker will premiere with her debut feature film, "Banel & Adama" and Jonathan Glazer, the British director behind "Sexy Beast" and "Under The Skin", will appear for the first time in competition with his latest, "The Zone of Interest", based on the novel by Martin Amis.
Ruben Östlund, the two-time Palme d’Or winner whose most recent film, "Triangle of Sadness" became a worldwide success, has been picked to lead the Main Competition jury. The rest of this year's jurors will include Moroccan director Maryam Touzani; French actor Denis Ménochet; British-Zambian filmmaker, Rungano Nyoni: American actress, Brie Larson; American Actor, Paul Dano; Afghan filmmaker, Atiq Rahimi; Argentinian director, Damián Szifrón and French director, Julia Ducournau.
The festival opens with "Jeanne du Barry", the new film by Maïwenn, the French filmmaker and actor who won the Jury Prize at Cannes in 2011 for her film, "Polisse", who also stars in the title role. Based on the life of King Louis XV’s last royal mistress at the Court of Versailles, the film reveals how du Barry came from a working-class background and worked her way up the social ladder using her charm and beauty. This bio-pic features Pascal Greggory, Melvil Poupaud and Johnny Depp, making his first return to the screen in three years (and speaking French), as the King.
The Closing Night Film will be the latest animated faeture from Pixar , "Elemental". This film is set in the world of Element City where the elements of earth, fire, water and air live together in harmony. But when fire, Ember and water, Wade grow close, things become complicated for them because they cannot touch. "Elemental" will be released in US theaters on June 16th and in France on June 21st.
Out-of-Competition screenings will include the world premiere of Martin Scorsese's "Killers of the Flower Moon". Based on the non-fiction book by David Grann, Leonardo DiCaprio stars in this story about a series of murders in the Osage Nation in Oklahoma during the 1920s, committed not long after oil was discovered on tribal land. Harrison Ford returns for the fifth time as his iconic character in "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny". James Mangold directs this latest adventure with Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Antonio Banderas and Mads Mikkelsen co-starring. And the Spanish director, Pedro Almodvar makes his second English language project with another short film, "Strange Way of Life". This western focuses on a cowboy (Pedro Pascal) and a sheriff (Ethan Hawke) who were friendly twenty-five years ago when they worked together as hired gunmen. But the cowboy reveals that this reunion is not about catching up on old times.
Quentin Tarantino will attend Cannes Directors’ Fortnight as a guest of honor on May 25th for a special event that will feature a secret screening and a discussion on his views of cinema history that will expand upon his recent book, "Cinema Speculation". And Michael Douglas will receive the Honorary Palme D'Or this year. The American actor, who has been working for over fifty years and appeared in such films as "Fatal Attraction", "The China Syndrome", "Romancing the Stone", "The War of the Roses" and "Basic Instinct", will receive this honor on opening night with a previously unseen documentary, "Michael Douglas, The Prodigal Son" also being screened.
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