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Movies directed by Francis Ford Coppola, David Cronenberg and Yorgos Lanthimos will compete for the Palme d’Or at this 12 months’s Cannes Film Festival, the occasion’s organizers introduced in a information convention on Thursday.
New movies by Jacques Audiard, Paul Schrader and Andrea Arnold may also seem in competitors at this 12 months’s occasion, the pageant’s 77th version, which opens May 14 and runs via May 25.
The most eagerly anticipated movie on the lineup is more likely to be Coppola’s “Megalopolis” — the director’s first film in over 10 years.
During Thursday’s information convention, Thierry Frémaux, Cannes’s creative director, revealed little about that film’s plot, however Coppola, the director of “The Godfather” trilogy and “Apocalypse Now,” has been speaking about his want to make it for many years. In 2001, Coppola instructed the The New York Times that “Megalopolis” was “concerning the future” and “a man who desires to construct a utopian society in the course of Manhattan.”
Coppola, 85, has already gained the Palme d’Or twice: in 1974 for “The Conversation,” and, in 1979, for “Apocalypse Now” (a prize that was shared with Volker Schlöndorff’s “The Tin Drum”).
The Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos will current “Kinds of Kindness,” starring Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe, who additionally labored collectively on Lanthimos’s most up-to-date launch, “Poor Things.” David Cronenberg, the Canadian horror film director, will premiere “The Shrouds,” a couple of widower who builds a machine to attach with the dead.
Among the opposite films competing for the Palme d’Or are Audiard’s “Emilia Perez,” a musical crime comedy set on this planet of Mexican drug cartels and starring Selena Gomez; Ali Abbasi’s “The Apprentice,” about Donald J. Trump’s early enterprise profession; and Andrea Arnold’s “Bird,” a couple of 12-year-old woman residing in poverty in England.
The Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov will present “Limonov: The Ballad,” a couple of Russian poet residing in New York, and Paolo Sorrentino, the Italian director, will probably be represented with “Parthenope,” which Frémaux mentioned was about a lovely lady who hopes to be identified for one thing aside from her seems.
Schrader, finest generally known as the screenwriter behind “Taxi Driver,” will current “Oh Canada,” starring Uma Thurman and Richard Gere. Frémaux mentioned the film was a comedy about older folks wanting again on their lives and errors. Coralie Fargeat, finest generally known as the director of “The Revenge,” will current a physique horror — a grotesque horror film subgenre — known as “The Substance,” starring Demi Moore.
Before Thursday’s information convention, some film critics had mentioned they anticipated this 12 months’s lineup to lack large films from American studios due to the continued results of final 12 months’s Hollywood strikes. Frémaux mentioned within the information convention that the 2024 choice “was not simple” due to the strikes, however that American cinema would “completely be current” at this 12 months’s pageant. Three of the 19 films in competitors are by American administrators.
The particulars of some high-profile films showing out of competitors had been already identified lengthy earlier than Thursday’s information convention. Those embrace George Miller’s “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” the newest installment within the motion sequence; and Kevin Costner’s “Horizon: an American Saga,” set on the Western frontier in the course of the American Civil War.
All of the entries will probably be scrutinized by a jury led by Greta Gerwig, the director and screenwriter behind “Barbie,” and it’ll announce the Palme d’Or winner at a ceremony on May 25.
At the pageant’s closing ceremony, George Lucas, the creator of the “Star Wars” and “Indiana Jones” sequence, may also obtain an Honorary Palme d’Or for his contribution to cinema.
