Motion pictures directed by Francis Ford Coppola, David Cronenberg and Yorgos Lanthimos will compete for the Palme d’Or at this 12 months’s Cannes Movie Pageant, the occasion’s organizers introduced in a information convention on Thursday.
New movies by Jacques Audiard, Paul Schrader and Andrea Arnold can even seem in competitors at this 12 months’s occasion, the competition’s 77th version, which opens Could 14 and runs by means of Could 25.
Probably 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.
Throughout 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 Instances that “Megalopolis” was “in regards to the future” and “a man who desires to construct a utopian society in the course of Manhattan.”
Coppola, 85, has already received the Palme d’Or twice: in 1974 for “The Dialog,” 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 “Sorts of Kindness,” starring Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe, who additionally labored collectively on Lanthimos’s most up-to-date launch, “Poor Issues.” David Cronenberg, the Canadian horror film director, will premiere “The Shrouds,” a couple of widower who builds a machine to attach with the lifeless.
Among the many different motion pictures competing for the Palme d’Or are Audiard’s “Emilia Perez,” a musical crime comedy set on the 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 “Chicken,” a couple of 12-year-old lady dwelling in poverty in England.
The Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov will present “Limonov: The Ballad,” a couple of Russian poet dwelling in New York, and Paolo Sorrentino, the Italian director, will likely be represented with “Parthenope,” which Frémaux stated was about a gorgeous lady who hopes to be identified for one thing aside from her seems to be.
Schrader, greatest often called the screenwriter behind “Taxi Driver,” will current “Oh Canada,” starring Uma Thurman and Richard Gere. Frémaux stated the film was a comedy about older folks wanting again on their lives and errors. Coralie Fargeat, greatest often called the director of “The Revenge,” will current a physique horror — a ugly horror film subgenre — referred to as “The Substance,” starring Demi Moore.
Earlier than Thursday’s information convention, some film critics had stated they anticipated this 12 months’s lineup to lack large motion pictures from American studios due to the continuing results of final 12 months’s Hollywood strikes. Frémaux stated 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 competition. Three of the 19 motion pictures in competitors are by American administrators.
The small print of some high-profile motion pictures showing out of competitors had been already identified lengthy earlier than Thursday’s information convention. These embody George Miller’s “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” the most recent installment within the motion sequence; and Kevin Costner’s “Horizon: an American Saga,” set on the Western frontier throughout the American Civil Struggle.
The entire entries will likely 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 Could 25.
On the competition’s closing ceremony, George Lucas, the creator of the “Star Wars” and “Indiana Jones” sequence, can even obtain an Honorary Palme d’Or for his contribution to cinema.
