Mumbai: Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap’s movie ‘Kennedy’ has been chosen to be screened on the upcoming version of the Cannes Film Festival. On Thursday, the official line-up of the 2023 Cannes Film Festival was unveiled and Kashyap’s movie discovered a reputation within the listing. The movie might be part of the Midnight Screenings part of the competition, which is able to happen from May 16-27.
“KENNEDY by Anurag KASHYAP #SeanceDeMinuit / #MidnightScreenings #Cannes2023,” a publish learn on the official Twitter deal with of the Cannes Film Festival.
Kashyap additionally shared the replace together with his followers and followers on social media.
Kennedy stars Sunny Leone, Rahul Bhatt and Abhilash Thapliyal. Details concerning the film have been stored underneath wraps.
KENNEDY by Anurag KASHYAP
#SéanceDeMinuit / #MidnightScreenings #Cannes2023
— Festival de Cannes (@Festival_Cannes) April 13, 2023
The competition’s longtime director Thierry Fremaux revealed the official choice at a press convention on the UGC Normandie Theatre in Paris alongside incoming competition president Iris Knobloch.
“We saw more than 2,000 films. These numbers are extravagant and, at the same time, reflect the health of world cinema and the aspiration to make films everywhere,” stated Fremaux on the jam-packed convention. He additionally applauded the broader worldwide scope of the competitors which seems to have fewer French motion pictures. Among the French competitors entries are ‘The Passion of Dodin Bouffant’, a interval romance directed by Tran Anh Hung, and starring Juliette Binoche and Benoit Magimel.
Fremaux stated the Official Selection shouldn’t be locked, with extra movies anticipated to be unveiled within the coming days. Some motion pictures rumored to probably pop up on the competition embody Ladj Ly’s observe as much as “Les Miserables,” in addition to Yorgos Lanthimos’s “Poor Things.
“Maiwenn`s Jeanne du Barry, starring the director reverse Johnny Depp, will open the competition on May 16. The version can have an Italian flavour with the most recent movies from Nanni Moretti (‘The Sun of the Future’), Marco Bellocchio (‘Rapito’) and Rohrwacher, who was in competitors earlier than with ‘The Wonders’ and ‘Happy as Lazzaro’, which gained the Jury Prize and the screenplay award, respectively, Variety tweeted.
Besides ‘Four Daughters’, the competitors contains one other politically-minded documentary, ‘Jeunesse’ by Chinese director Wang Bing, who was beforehand at Cannes with ‘Dead Souls’.Â
The helmer additionally has ‘Man in Black’ in Special Screenings. Wenders, a Palme d’Or-winner for ‘Paris, Texas’, is again within the hunt with ‘Perfect Days’, one in all two movies he’ll display at Cannes.
