If you love the realistic minimalism of the Dardenne Brothers this will be your day (in Cannes, a sure thing);
if you bet on Mario Martone's definitive maturity and his international consecration, get ready to cheer.
If you are bewitched by Louis Garrel's charm, he will be the hero of the day.
But beware of surprises: you can come out of Cannes as winners by entering as strangers.
On Tuesday, however, the festival celebrates its 75th anniversary with a gala that would be memorable
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- NOSTALGIA by Mario Martone with Pierfrancesco Favino, Sofia Essaïdi, Tommaso Ragno.
IN COMPETITION.
The return to Naples of a man who spent his childhood in the "lowlands", he left it after a bloody event and finds there as an adult his childhood friend still tied to the underworld.
From the novel by Ermanno Rea.
- TORI ET LOKITA by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne with Pablo Schils, Joely Mbundu, Charlotte De Bruyne.
IN COMPETITION.
The impossible battle to be accepted in today's Belgium of two African children linked by an indissoluble friendship.
The lucid and merciless gaze of the two teachers / brothers continues to be fueled by an incurable tenderness for those who are not accepted.
- L'INNOCENT by and with Luis Garrel and with Avec Roschdy Zem, Anouk Grinberg, Noémie Merlant.
OUT OF COMPETITION.
Abel cannot accept that his mother, a vital 60-year-old, has decided to remarry and moreover with an inmate.
The boy, aided by Clemence, her best friend, tempts her all to dissuade her mother and protect her from this madness.
Until he comes face to face with the betrothed.
His vision of his life is about to be shattered.
- METRONOM by Alexandru Belc with Şerban Lazarovici, Mara Bugarin, Vlad Ivanov. A CERTAIN REGARD.
With this film he plunges back into the gloomy, threatening climate of the era of Ceausescu and his terrible secret police.
The year is 1972 and Ana is 17 years old.
She and some friends she decides to send a letter to the underground radio Metronom, but they are spied on by the Securitate who breaks into the house.
- THE SILENT TWINS by Agnieszka Smoczynska with Letitia Wright, Tamara Lawrance, Eva-Arianna Baxter.
A CERTAIN REGARD.
The years are the same, the sad '70s, but this time the background is Wales in the house where two fusional twin sisters have locked themselves up against the world.
June and Jennifer build a parallel universe but the consequences are unpredictable.
- FUNNY PAGES by Owen Kline with Daniel Zolghadri, Matthew Maher, Josh Pais.
QUINZAINE DES REALISATEURS.
Yet another coming-of-age story, this time centered on a teenage designer who decides to give up everything to find himself.
- LE BARRAGE by Ali Cherri with Maher El Khair.
A seasonal worker near the great Merowe dam in the heart of Sudan, Maher walks in the desert every night and builds a mysterious mud house, possibly a devotional temple.
When the Sudanese revolution explodes, even the house seems to come to life ... Written with a narrator tempted by the suggestion of the paranormal like Bertrand Bonello, the film by Lebanese Ali Cherri takes the viewer into a magical and suspended world, like Africa between yesterday and today .
- FOGO FATUO by Joao Pedro Rodrigues with Anabela Moreira, Margarida Vila-Nova, Miguel Loureiro.
QUINZAINE DES REALISATEURS.
On his deathbed the old Alfredo remembers his youthful past when he dreamed of being a firefighter and was raised by the instructor Alfonso.
Until one day it was the fire that took possession of them.
- LA JAURIA by Andrès Ramirez Pulido with Jhojan Stiven Jiménez Arboleda, Maicol Andrés Jimenez Zarabanda.
SEMAINE DE LA CRITIQUE.
Locked up in a reformatory in the Colombian forest, the teenager Eliù serves his sentence for a crime committed together with his friend El Mono.
However, when the two find themselves together again, the influence of the older friend risks losing Eliù for good.
