Well, the lineup is out: the program for the 79th Cannes Film Festival was announced. The event is set for May 12 to 23, so mark the calendar if you care to argue about premieres.
The jury will be headed by Park Chan-wook — yes, the director of Oldboy. His selection might tilt conversations (e.g., what counts as artful provocation), or not; either way, people will talk.
Headliners include “The Minotaur” by Andrey Zvyagintsev and “Bitter Christmas” by Pedro Almodóvar, along with a raft of other world premieres. The festival opens with “Electric Venus” by Pierre Salvadori.
In the main competition
- “A Sheep in a Box” — dir. Hirokazu Koreeda
- “Garance” — dir. Jeanne Herry
- “Bitter Christmas” — dir. Pedro Almodóvar
- “A Woman’s Life” — dir. Charlotte Bourjau-Tac
- “My Love” — dir. Rodrigo Sorogoyen
- “The Minotaur” — dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev
- “Moulin” — dir. László Nemes
- “Hope” — dir. Na Hong-jin
- “Our Salvation” — dir. Emmanuel Marre
- “Tender Monster” — dir. Marie Kreutzer
- “Unknown” — dir. Arthur Harari
- “Out of the Blue” — dir. Ryūsuke Hamaguchi
- “Notes of Nagai” — dir. Koji Fukada
- “Night Stories” — dir. Léa Mysius
- “Motherland” — dir. Paweł Pawlikowski
- “Parallel Stories” — dir. Asghar Farhadi
- “Dreamlike Adventure” — dir. Valeska Grisebach
- “Coward” — dir. Lucas Don
- “Fjord” — dir. Cristian Mungiu
- “The Man I Love” — dir. Ira Sachs
- “Black Ball” — dir. Javier Ambrossi, Javier Calvo
Out of competition
- “Her Personal Hell” — dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
- “Teen Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” — dir. Dan Schoenbrun
- Propeller One-Way Night Coach — dir. John Travolta
The honorary Palme d’Or will be awarded to Peter Jackson and Barbra Streisand.