The Cannes Film Festival introduced its official choice on Thursday.
The 74th version of the world’s main movie competition, being held 6-17 July, guarantees to be one to recollect, with beloved auteurs Wes Anderson (The French Dispatch), Leos Carax (Annette) and Paul Verhoeven (Benedetta) alongside many feminine filmmakers like administrators like Ildikó Enyedi (The Story of My Wife) and Julia Ducournau (Titane).
The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled its official choice lineup for the 2021 occasion. Fest President Pierre Lescure and General Delegate Thierry Fremaux made the presentation of 61 titles this morning in Paris, 24 of that are in Competition (4 of these are directed by ladies).
According to Deadline, a number of names on the listing are acquainted ones together with Jacques Audiard, Francois Ozon, Asghar Farhadi and Nanni Moretti. U.S. filmmakers, embody Wes Anderson and ‘The French Dispatch’ as anticipated, together with Sean Penn whose drama ‘Flag Day’ stars Dylan Penn, Katheryn Winnick, Josh Brolin and Eddie Marsan.
Some of essentially the most anticipated movies of this version included Leos Carax’s musical romance ‘Annette’ with Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard, which can kick off the competition; Verhoeven’s subversive interval thriller ‘Benedetta’, set within the late fifteenth century and starring Virginie Efira as a novice nun; and ‘The French Dispatch’, Anderson’s tenth film, with Tilda Swinton, Benicio del Toro, Bill Murray and Timothee Chalamet, amongst different stars.
There’s additionally an as-yet unrevealed U.S. studio film to be screened on the seashore whereas a brand new part, Cannes Premieres, has been created and can characteristic new works from Andrea Arnold, Hong Sang-soo and Arnaud Desplechin. As is common follow, additional movies will likely be added within the coming days and weeks. Following is the complete listing of titles introduced right this moment.
Here is that this yr’s lineup:
Opening Night Film
“Annette,” Leos Carax (additionally in Competition)
Competition
“Ahed’s Knee,” Nadav Lapid
“Annette,” Leos Carax
“Benedetta,” Paul Verhoeven
“Bergman Island,” Mia Hansen-Love
“Casablanca Beats,” Nabil Ayouch
“Compartment No. 6,” Juho Kuosmanen
“Drive My Car,” Ryusuke Hamaguchi
“Everything Went Fine,” Francois Ozon
“The French Dispatch,” Wes Anderson
“A Hero,” Asghar Farhadi
“La fracture,” Catherine Corsini
“Lingui,” Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
“Memoria,” Apichatpong Weerasethakul
“Nitram,” Justin Kurzel
“Paris, 13th District,” Jacques Audiard
“Par un Demi Clair Matin,” Bruno Dumont
“Petrov’s Flu,” Kirill Serebrennikov
“Red Rocket,” Sean Baker
“The Restless,” Joachim Lafosse
“The Story of My Wife,” Ildiko Enyedi
“Three Floors,” Nanni Moretti
“Titane,” Julia Ducournau
“The Worst Person in the World,” Joachim Trier
“Flag Day,” Sean Penn
Un Certain Regard
“After Yang,” Kogonada
“Blue Bayou,” Justin Chon
“Bonne Mere,” Hafsia Herzi
“Commitment Hasan,” Hasan Semih
“Freda,” Gessica Geneus
“House Arrest” OR “Delo,” Alexey German Jr.
“The Innocents,” Eskil Vogt
“Lamb,” Valdimar Johansson
“Moneyboys,” B.C Yi
“Noche de Fuego,” Tatiana Huezo
“Un Monde,” Laura Wandel
“Women Do Cry,” Mina Mileva and Vesela Kazakova
“La Civil,” Teodora Ana Mihai
“Unclenching the Fists,” Kira Kovalenko
“Let Their Be Morning,” Eran Kolirin
“Rehana Maryam Noor,” Abdullah Mohammad Saad
Cannes Premiere
“Evolution,” Kornel Mundruczo
“Cow,” Andrea Arnold
“Deception” OR “Tromperie,” Arnaud Desplechin
“Hold Me Tight,” Mathieu Almaric
“In Front of Your Face,” Hong Sang-soo
“Love Songs for Tough Guys,” Samuel Benchetrit
“Mothering Sunday,” Eva Husson
“Val,” Ting Poo and Leo Scott
Out of Competition
“Aline, the Voice of Love,” Valerie Lemercier
“Babi Yar. Context,” Sergei Loznitsa
“Bac Nord,” Cedric Jimenez
“Emergency Declaration,” Han Jae-Rim
“In His Lifetime” OR “De son vivant,” Emmanuelle Bercot
“Stillwater,” Tom McCarthy
“The Velvet Underground,” Todd Haynes
Special Screenings
“Black Notebooks,” Shlomi Elkabetz
“H6,” Ye Ye
“Jane by Charlotte,” Charlotte Gainsbourg
“JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass,” Oliver Stone
“Mariner of the Mountains,” Karim Ainouz
“Baby Yar. Context.” Sergei Loznitsa
“The Year of the Everlasting Storm,” Jafar Panahi, Anthony Chen, Malik Vitthal, Laura Poitras, Dominga Sotomayar, David Lowery, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Midnight Screenings
“Bloody Oranges,” Jean-Christophe Meurisse
As per The Hollywood Reporter, the Cannes 2021 line-up announcement on Thursday was finished from the UGC Normandie theater in Paris. The occasion live-streamed on the competition’s YouTube channel and on Twitter.
