THE OFFICIAL CANNES POSTER DEPICTS A YOUNG AGNES VARDA
The Cannes Film Festival 14-25 May 2019
You'll find a quick survey of the Cannes 2019 Competition list by Peter Bradshaw today in the GUARDIAN.
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Cannes is celebrating its 72nd year in 2019 beginning May 14.
The 2019 Cannes Film Festival has announced the majority of its official lineup, including films set to debut in sections such as Competition, Un Certain Regard, Out of Competition, Special Screenings, and Midnight Screenings. The lineup was announced this morning during a press conference. One thing to note is that additions to the lineup will most likely happen in the coming days. The lineup being announced this morning is the majority of the 2019 slate.
One film already confirmed for the festival is Jim Jarmusch’s “The Dead Don’t Die,” which has been selected to open Cannes 2019 on May 14. The movie is a zombie comedy starring Adam Driver, Bill Murray, and Chloe Sevigny as police officers who must protect their small town from the undead. “The Dead Don’t Die” will be in competition at Cannes, bringing Jarmusch back to the Palme d’Or race after “Paterson” in 2016. Other Jarmusch efforts that have competed for the Palme at Cannes include “Only Lovers Left Alive,” “Broken Flowers” (winner of the Grand Jury Prize), “Dead Man,” and “Mystery Train.” Jarmusch’s short film “Coffee and Cigarettes” won the Best Short Film prize at Cannes in 1993.
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This year’s Cannes COMPETITION JURY will be led by “Birdman” and “The Revenant” Oscar winner Alejandro G. Iñárritu. The filmmaker won the Best Director prize at Cannes for “Babel” in 2006 and returned to the competition lineup in 2010 with the drama “Biutiful,” which won star Javier Bardem the Best Actor prize. The rest of Iñárritu’s jury will be announced later.
The late Agnès Varda is featured in the official poster. There are still only four women directors included in the Competition list (though as Deadline points out in its tidy review, that is "the most of any recent year"). The lucky ladies are Mati Diop, Jessica Hausner, Céline Sciamma and Justine Triet. The second two are French.
Opening Night Film
“The Dead Don’t Die,” Jim Jarmusch (also in Competition)
Competition
Pain & Glory/Dolor y gloria, dir: Pedro Almódovar
Parasite/ 기생충 (Gisaengchung), dir: Bong Joon-ho
The Wild Goose Lake/南方车站的聚会, dir: Diao Yinan
The Traitor/Il traditore, dir: Marco Bellocchio
Young Ahmed/Le jeune Ahmed, dirs: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Matthias & Maxime, dir: Xavier Dolan
Oh Mercy/Roubaix, une lumière, dir: Arnaud Desplechin
A Hidden Life, dir: Terrence Malick
Sorry We Missed You, dir: Ken Loach
Little Joe, dir: Jessica Hausner
Portrait Of A Lady On Fire/Portrait de la jeune fille en feu , dir: Céline Sciamma
Atlantique, dir: Mati Diop
Sibyl, dir: Justine Triet
It Must Be Heaven, dir: Elia Suleiman
Frankie, dir: Ira Sachs
Bacurau, dirs: Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles
The Whistlers/La Gomera, dir: Corneliu Porumboiu
Les Misérables, dir: Ladj Ly
Later addition:
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, dir. Quentin Tarantino
Un Certain Regard
Invisible Life, dir: Karim Aïnouz
Beanpole, dir: Kantemir Balagov
The Swallows Of Kabul, dirs: Zabou Breitman & Eléa Gobé Mévellec
A Brother’s Love, dir: Monia Chokri
The Climb, dir: Michael Covino
Jeanne, dir: Bruno Dumont
A Sun That Never Sets, dir: Olivier Laxe
Chambre 212, dir: Christophe Honoré
Port Authority, dir: Danielle Lessovitz
Papicha, dir: Mounia Meddour
Adam, dir: Maryam Touzani
Zhuo Ren Mi Mi, dir: Midi Z
Liberté, dir: Albert Serra
Bull, dir: Annie Silverstein
Summer Of Changsha, dir: Zu Feng
Evge, dir: Nariman Aliev
Out of Competition
Les Plus Belles Années D’Une Vie, dir: Claude Lelouch
Rocketman, dir: Dexter Fletcher
Too Old To Die Young – North Of Hollywood, West Of Hell (two episodes); dir: Nicolas Winding Refn
Diego Maradona, dir: Asif Kapadia
La Belle Epoque, dir: Nicolas Bedos
Special Screenings
Tommaso, dir: Abel Ferrara
Share, dir: Pippa Bianco
For Sama, dirs: Waad Al Kateab & Edward Watts
Etre Vivant Et Le Savoir/To Be Alive and Know It, dir: Alain Cavalier
Family Romance LLC, dir: Werner Herzog
Que Sea Ley, Juan Solanas
Midnight Screenings
“The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil,” Lee Won-Tae
Critics week (Features competition)
About Lelia, dir: Amin Sidi-Boumédiène
Land Of Ashes, dir: Sofía Quirós Ubeda
A White, White Day, dir: Hlynur Pálmason
I Lost My Body, dir: Jérémy Clapin
Our Mothers, dir: César Diaz
The Unknown Saint, dir: Alaa Eddine Aljem
Vivarium, dir: Lorcan Finnegan
ALAIN DELON WILL GET A SPECIAL PALM; XAVIER DOLAN IS BACK; SO IS CÉLINE SCIAMMA (WATERLILIES, TOMBOY, GIRLHOOD)
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