Movies
from
Todd
Haynes,
Gus
Van
Sant,
Denis
Villeneuve,
Yorgos
Lanthimos
and
Justin
Kurzel
will
vie
for
the
Palme
d'Or
alongside
new
films
by
Valerie
Donzelli,
Jacques
Audiard,
Hou
Hsiao-hsien
and
Jia
Zhangke
at
the
Cannes
Film
Festival
this
year.
At
a
packed
Paris
press
conference,
Cannes
Film
Festival
director
Thierry
Fremaux
and
president
Pierre
Lescure
unveiled
a
star-studded
lineup
for
the
festival's
68th
edition.
World-premiere
screenings
of
Woody
Allen's
"Irrational
Man",
George
Miller's
"Mad
Max:
Fury
Road" and
Pixar's
latest
toon
extravaganza
"Inside
Out"
is
also
planned.
Another
animated
feature,
Mark
Osborne's
English-language
adaptation
of
"The
Little
Prince," will
also
screen
out
of
competition,
said
the
Hollywood
Reporter.
In
total,
17
films
were
added
to
the
competition
and
14
in
the
Un
Certain
Regard
section.
Additional
films
will
be
added
to
the
lineup
in
the
coming
days.
Emmanuelle
Bercot's
drama
"La
Tete
Haute"
will
kick
off
the
festival
on
May
13.
This
is
the
first
time
a
female
director's
film
has
played
opening
night
in
Cannes
since
1987,
when
Diane
Kurys
premiered
her
English-language
romance
"A
Man
in
Love"
in
the
same
slot.
The
'In
Competition'
films
are
"The
Assassin"
(Hou
Hsiao-hsien)
"Carol"
(Todd
Haynes),
"Erran"
(Jacques
Audiard),
"The
Lobster"
(Yorgos
Lanthimo),
"Our
Little
Sister"
(Hirokazu
Kore-eda),
"Louder
Than
Bombs"
(Joachim
Trier),
"Macbeth"
(Justin
Kurzel),
"Marguerite
and
Julien"
(Valerie
Donzelli),
"Mon
roi"
(Maiwenn),
"Mountains
May
Depart"
(Jia
Zhangke),
"My
Mother"
(Nanni
Moretti),
"The
Sea
of
Trees"
(Gus
Van
Sant),
"Sicario"
(Denis
Villeneuve),
"A
Simple
Man"
(Stephane
Brize),
"Son
of
Saul"
(Laszlo
Nemes),
"The
Tale
of
Tales"
(Matteo
Garrone)
and
"Youth"
(Paolo
Sorrentino).
Cannes
usually
allots
three
competition
slots
to
French
filmmakers,
and
this
year
is
no
exception,
with
two
of
them
given
to
directors
who
have
competed
before,
Maiwenn
and
Jacques
Audiard.
Maiwenn,
who
won
the
Jury
Prize
in
2011
for
"Polisse",
will
screen
her
marriage
chronicle,
"Mon
roi",
starring
Vincent
Cassel,
Bercot
and
Louis
Garrel,
while
"A
Prophet"
helmer
Audiard
will
return
with
the
gritty
street
saga
"Dheepan",
about
a
Tamil
refugee
who
finds
himself
in
the
tough
suburbs
of
Paris.
Writer-director
Stephane
Brize
will
play
in
competition
for
the
first
time
with
"La
loi
du
marche",
with
Vincent
Lindon,
a
regular
in
his
films,
starring
as
an
unemployed
50-year-old
man
who
finds
a
job
as
a
supermarket
security
guard
and
then
faces
a
major
moral
dilemma.
Cannes
announced
a
new
"Women
in
Motion"
initiative
alongside
corporate
partner
Kering,
with
a
series
of
conferences
and
events
scheduled
to
take
place
at
this
year's
festival,
and
prizes
to
be
handed
out
to
women
filmmakers
starting
in
2016.