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Cannes, a festival from before

2022-04-14T16:59:28.327Z


STORY - David Cronenberg, James Gray, Cristian Mungiu, Ruben Östlund or Arnaud Desplechin compete alongside newcomers Lukas Dhont, Kelly Reichardt, Saeed Roustaee or Tarik Saleh. For its 75th edition, the event regains an air of normalcy.


The suspense continues.

Thursday morning, during the traditional press conference of the Cannes Film Festival at the UGC Normandie, in Paris, Thierry Frémaux did not deliver the name of the next president of the jury.

While the general delegate usually announces it in January, there are still knots in the brain a month before the start of the festivities.

It would be the fault of the Covid, which upsets the shooting schedules and makes the contenders unavailable, and the series, which deprives the teams of RTT.

"Everyone works,"

laments Frémaux.

To believe that the job no longer makes you dream.

Bets remain open.

After Penelope Cruz, the names of Asghar Farhadi and Vincent Lindon circulate.

It will still be necessary to wait a few days to know the successor of Spike Lee.

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In addition to this anomaly, the Cannes Film Festival, back in mid-May, seems to be regaining an air of normality.

Plentiful in 2021 (80 films to compensate for the cancellation of 2020), the selection is becoming almost reasonable again with 50 films selected...

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Source: lefigaro

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