- ARMAGEDDON TIME
by James Gray with Anne Hathaway, Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Strong.
Usa, IN COMPETITION.
There is much of the director's autobiographical experience in this story of a mixed adolescence in the borough of Queens in Manhattan, between old families and new tenants.
But there is also the shadow of today in a story set in the 80s because the neighborhood reigns like a man, real estate developer Fred Trump, father of tycoon Donald.
Great anticipation for the return of one of the Festival's most loved US independent authors.
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EO
by Jerzy Skolimowski with Isabelle Huppert, Sandra Drzymalska, Lorenzo Zurzulo, Kosciukiewicz Mateusz, Poland, Italy IN COMPETITION.
There is a film that the Pole and stateless Skolimovski claims is capable of moving him to tears: "Au hazard Balthasar" by Robert Bresson.
So on his sixth participation in Cannes and seven years after the last director, he decided to pay homage to the French filmmaker with a very free remake of the story of the donkey who, passing from one owner to another, experiences the hardness of life, a via crucis which for Bresson was a transparent Christological allegory.
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MARIUPOL 2
by Mantas Kvedaravicius.
SPECIAL PROGRAMS.
At the beginning of last April one of the best known Ukrainian directors in the world, the author of "Parthenon" (2019) and before "Mariupolis" (2016) was filming the life and martyrdom of the besieged city when he was captured by soldiers Russians and passed for arms.
Hanna Bilobrova, her girlfriend, was with him and managed to save herself and the material shot by her partner.
A testimony of life and death, of hope and truth that is projected to the day after the end of the resistance of the Ukrainian defenders, after 82 days of siege.
- HUNT
by and with Lee Jung-Jae and with Jung Woo-Sung, Jeon Hye-Jin, Heo Sung-Tae.
South Korea, OUT OF COMPETITION.
In South Korea in the 1980s, when the military took power after the assassination of President Park, the risk of a North Korean invasion is real and an undercover agent prepares the coup in Seoul.
Two senior Secret Service officials must find him and put him "out of action" before it's too late.
- RODEO
by Lola Quivoron with Mohamed Bettahar, Louis Sotton, Dave Nsaman Okebwan, Ahmed Hamdi.
A CERTAIN REGARD.
History of motors, passions, illegality and the frenzy of life.
Young Julia earns her living by means of gimmicks but she uses all her savings for her almost sexual obsession with big motorcycles.
Having reached a gang of "hell's angels", the girl wastes no time in establishing herself in this masculine universe until an accident ...
- HARKA
by Lofty Nathan with Ikbal Harbi, Najib Alagui, Omar Salima Maatoug.
A CERTAIN REGARD.
10 years have passed since the Tunisian revolution but the fire continues to burn under the ashes.
The young Ali warns him that he earns a few pennies on the black market for fuel when his father dies leaving him the responsibility of the house and of two sisters who, still unmarried, will be banned for the Islamic tradition.
Ali realizes it's time to rebel once again.
- LES HARKIS
by Philippe Faucon with Theo Cholbi, Omar Boulakirba, Amine Zorgane, Pierre Lottin.
QUINZAINE DES REALIZATEURS.
Harkis: Algerian Muslims who agreed to serve as auxiliary troops in the French army during the former colony's war of liberation.
Three boys, enlisted more out of hunger than out of conviction, serve in the platoon of Lieutenant Pascal.
It is the early 1960s and it is now clear that the National Liberation Front will win, as Gillo Pontecorvo already told in his most famous film.
But for the Harkis (only recently rehabilitated by the Elysée) the future becomes uncertain.
Thus, contrary to his orders, the French officer tries to bring his whole platoon to France.
- GOD'S CREATURES
by Saela Davis and Anna Rose Holmer with Emily Watson, Paul Mescal, Aisling Franciosi, Declan Conlon.
QUINZAINE DES REALISATEURS.
Mother Courage among Irish fishermen, Emily Watson has always won the community's respect for her unshakable certainties in judging Good and Evil.
When she finds herself having to lie to protect her son, she sees her principles fall apart and the family pact that has always held hers together collapsed.
- METSURIN TARINA
by Mikko Myllylahti with Jarkko Lahti, Iivo Tuuri, Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Katja Küttner, Marc Gassot.
SEMAINE DE LA CRITIQUE.
It comes from peaceful Finland, today in the headlines, another story of individuality and loneliness upset by an unexpected fact.
This is what happens to the butcher Pepe who has always lived in peace in his idyllic village until a chain of tragedies strikes him and his neighbors.
The only one who doesn't notice, at least apparently, is Pepe who seems to know an ancestral secret.
