By Marie-Louise Gumuchian
(Reuters) – Wes Anderson, Ken Loach, Todd Haynes and Wim Wenders are among the directors competing for the top prize at next month’s Cannes Film Festival, where several Hollywood stars will also premiere their latest works on the famous Croisette waterfront. .
In a press conference this Thursday, the director of the festival, Thierry Frémaux, announced the program for the 76th edition of the great cinema showcase, which will take place from May 16 to 27.
Nineteen films will compete for the festival’s coveted Palme d’Or, six of which are directed by women.
“It is a competition that will mix young filmmakers competing for the first time with veterans whose names and works we know”, said Frémaux.
Loach returns to the festival with “The Old Oak”, a film about Syrian refugees arriving in a former mining village in the UK, while Anderson brings his star-studded “Asteroid City”, in which major events disrupt a junior convention of wildlife watchers. stars.
Other directors in the competition include American filmmaker Haynes with “May December,” which stars Academy Award winners Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore, Italian Nanni Moretti with “Il Sol Dell’Avvenire,” German filmmaker Wim Wenders with “Perfect Days” and Japanese Hirokazu Koreeda with “Monster”.
Filmmakers in the competition include French Catherine Breillat with “L’Ete Dernier”, Austrian Jessica Hausner with “Club Zero” and Tunisian Kaouther Ben Hania with “Les Filles D’Olfa”.
Organizers have already announced the opening of the festival – the biographical drama “Jeanne du Barry” with Johnny Depp, the Hollywood star’s first live-action film since his libel trial against his ex-wife Amber Heard last year.
Adventurer Indiana Jones will also return to the festival 15 years after his last Cannes appearance. Harrison Ford reprises the character in “Indiana Jones and the Call of Fate,” which will have its world premiere in France.
(By Reportingubye Gumuchian)
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