Cannes 2022, remote notes

[Chris Knipp]

FOUR MORE COMING FILMS AT CANNES 2022 (not previously mentioned)


Leah Mondesir-Simmonds and Eva-Arianna Baxter as the young Gibbons sisters in Silent Twins.
Photograph: Courtesy of Jakub Kijowski/Focus Features

Summaries from Peter Bradshaw:

ONE FINE MORNING (Mia Hansen-Løve)
Transgressive passion is the foundation of this movie from Mia Hansen-Løve, with Léa Seydoux as Sandra, a single mum with a young daughter, trying to find care for her elderly father, and embarking on an intense affair with an old friend.

MEN (Alex Garland)
A frisson of League-of-Gentlemen unease in a creepy English country village where all the men (played by Rory Kinnear) have a weird resemblance to each other: Jessie Buckley stars in this scary movie from Alex Garland.

SILENT TWINS (Agnieszka Smoczynska)
Polish director Agnieszka Smoczyńska takes on the story of the British “silent twins”. Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance star as identical twins June and Jennifer Gibbons – who spoke to no one but each other, wrote “outsider art” novels and were eventually sent to Broadmoor for arson and theft.

PARIS MEMORIES (Alice Winocour)
Virginie Efira stars in Alice Winocour’s drama as a woman caught up in a terrorist attack in a Paris bistro. Some months later, stricken with PTSD and amnesia, and plagued with fragmented memories, she makes a determined attempt to reconstruct her past.

[Chris Knipp]

CANNES, MAY 18.



SCARLET/L'ENVOI (Pietro Marcello)
From the director of MARTIN EDEN, which I reviewed in the 2019 NYFF and which had lasting US arthouse success, comes the story of a "daydream believer" who "makes her own magic" in a "lovely French romance," is a "slight but satisfying choice" to open Directors' Fortnight, says Variety's critic. The Playlist critic says it's "a lukewarm exercise in magic realism." Deadline's reviewer says it's "a film of many parts" that "may not always fit together perfectly" bit each "is admirable and enjoyable in its own way." One thing is clear: the director, whose 15th film this is, has switched from Italian this time to French and a French setting. He has also enlisted some well known French actors, including Yvonne Moreau, Naomi Lvovsky, and Louis Garrel.

[Chris Knipp]

THE CANNES JURIES

The main jury chooses the Grand Prix and Palme d'Or from the Competition films. This year's jury president is the French actor Vincent Lindon, which should promise a focus on moral responsibility and seriousness, if he is the guiding spirit. The photo above at the opening red carpet event shows Jury president Vincent Lindon, center, with, from left, Ladj Ly, Deepika Padukone, Asghar Farhadi, Rebecca Hall, Noomi Rapace, Joachim Trier, Jasmine Trinca, and Jeff Nichols


COMPETITION JURY
Vincent Lindon (Président du Jury)
Rebecca Hall (Membre du Jury)
Deepika Padukone (Membre du Jury)
Noomi Rapace (Membre du Jury)
Jasmine Trinca (Membre du Jury)
Asghar Farhadi (Membre du Jury)
Ladj Ly (Membre du Jury)
Jeff Nichols (Membre du Jury)
Joachim Trier (Membre du Jury)

UN CERTAIN REGARD JURY
Valeria Golino (Président du Jury)
Debra Granik (Membre du Jury)
Joanna Kulig (Membre du Jury)
Benjamin Biolay (Membre du Jury)
Édgar Ramírez (Membre du Jury)

SHORT FILMS - COMPETITION
Yusri Nasrullah (Président du Jury)
Monia Chokri (Membre du Jury)
Laura Wandel (Membre du Jury)
Félix Moati (Membre du Jury)
Jean-Claude Raspiengeas (Membre du Jury)

CAMERA D'OR JURY
Rossy de Palma (Président du Jury)
Jean-Claude Larrieu (Membre du Jury)
Eléonore Weber (Membre du Jury)
Olivier Pélisson (Membre du Jury)
Lucien Jean-Baptiste (Membre du Jury)
Samuel Le Bihan (Membre du Jury)
Natasza Chroscicki (Membre du Jury)