From Park Chan-Wook to Claire Denis, from David Cronenberg to Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, here are the 18 films in competition for the Palme d'Or at the 75th Cannes Film Festival, from May 17 to 28.
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Here is the selection for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival:
Future Crimes
by David Cronenberg
The director of
Crash
(1996) is not used to sparing his audience: at 79, he should prove it once again, with this science-fiction film about transhumanism and the ablation of organs with Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart.
In theaters May 25.
Ali Abbasi's
Holy Spider
Rewarded at
Un Certain Regard
in 2018, with
Border
, the Dane of Iranian origin tackles the theme of the religious quest in a thriller set in Iran.
See also
Gräns,
by Ali Abbasi, crowned with the Un certain regard prize at Cannes
Ruben Ostlund's
Triangle of Sadness
The most scathing of Swedish directors is seeking a second Palme d'Or, after
The Square
(2017), with this satirical comedy where he follows the passengers of a luxury cruise, stranded on a desert island and led by a Marxist ship captain. .
Broker
by Hirokazu Kore-eda
After his Palme d'Or for
A Family Affair
(2018), the great regular on the Croisette took a step aside towards South Korea, taking on the star of
Parasite
, Song Kang-ho, for a new family story, where it will be about baby boxes.
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Decision to leave
by Park Chan-Wook
He marked the Croisette with the ultra-violent
Old boy
(Grand Prix 2004), the Korean Park Chan-Wook should again intrigue with an investigator who must elucidate the murder of a man found in the mountain, whose main suspect is none other than the victim's wife.
Showing up
by Kelly Reichardt
A great figure in independent cinema, the American in minimalist cinema (
First Cow
) finds one of her favorite actresses, Michelle Williams, for a film on the daily life of an artist and how she draws inspiration from her life.
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Boy from Heaven
by Tarik Saleh
After the success of
Confidential Cairo
(2017), a sticky thriller on corruption, the Swede of Egyptian origin Tarik Saleh reconnects with his favorite actor, Fares Fares, for a new dive into contemporary Egypt.
Tchaikovsky
's Wife by Kirill Serebrennikov
The terrible child of the Russian scene, settled in Berlin after leaving Russia in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine, is in competition for the third time, with a historical film around the composer Tchaikovsky.
He could for the first time climb the stairs.
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The Almond Trees
by Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi
The actress who went on to direct successfully is one of three women vying for the Palme d'Or, with a film about the Amandiers theater school founded by the French director Patrice Chéreau, against the backdrop of AIDS which rages.
Tori and Lokita
by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
The Dardenne brothers, the most famous representatives of social cinema, already doubly palmed in Cannes, this time share the friendship of two teenagers exiled in Belgium from Africa in precarious living conditions.
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Armageddon Time
by James Gray
After
Ad Astra
, a spatial camera carried by Brad Pitt, the director returned to Earth with a chronicle of adolescence carried by Anne Hathaway and Anthony Hopkins located in the heart of New York in the 1980s, in a school governed by the father of Donald Trump.
Nostalgia
by Mario Martone
For his first steps in competition, the Neapolitan Mario Martone pays homage to his city through a dramatic adaptation of the novel
Nostalgia
by the Italian writer and journalist Ermanno Rea.
Stars at Noon
by Claire Denis
Rewarded in February for
With love and relentlessness
at the Berlinale, Claire Denis returns a few months later with a
“film of expectation, of atmosphere, on the edge of the diplomatic thriller”
according to Thierry Frémaux, shot in Central America.
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Close
by Lukas Dhont
His first film
Girl
on transidentity won him the Camera d'or in 2018. With
Close
, the Belgian Lukas Dhont deals with friendship through two teenagers who are suddenly separated by a tragedy.
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Brother and sister
of Arnaud Desplechin
In the continuity of his
Christmas Tale
(2008), Arnaud Desplechin films a family drama with two brothers and sisters in long-term conflict reunited by the death of their parents.
With Marion Cotillard and Melvil Poupaud.
NMR
by Cristian Mungiu
Palme d'Or for
4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days
, a drama on abortion and corruption, Cristian Mungiu continues to examine the ills of Romania with a film, shot in a village in Transylvania, evoking the effect of European policies, community relations and the destiny of a country.
Leila's Brothers
by Saeed Roustaee
Iranian Saeed Roustaee has already impressed with his hard-hitting thriller,
The Law of Tehran
, about drug trafficking.
The 30-year-old arrives in Cannes with
Leila's Brothers
, directly selected in competition, on which nothing has filtered so far.
Hi-han
by Jerzy Skolimowski
At 83, this great Polish name in cinema, pillar of the new wave in this country in the 1960s, who also practiced boxing, jazz, poetry and painting, returned to Poland after having lived in California, tells the story of a donkey in this film about which little information has filtered.
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