CANNES 2024 - remote notes

[Chris Knipp]

CANNES 2024 - first overview.
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The 77th edition runs May 15-25, 2024


[Excerpt from the VARIETY intro:].

In what looks to be another robust year in the making, the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival will bring together several iconic filmmakers, including Francis Ford Coppola with “Megalopolis” starring Adam Driver, George Miller with “Furiosa” starring Anya Taylor-Joy, as well as George Lucas who will be feted with an honorary Palme d’Or. Kevin Costner will also be on hand with the first installment of his Western epic “Horizon, an American Saga.”

Some of the high-profile films in the pipeline for this year’s competition include Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Kinds of Kindness,” a stylized three-part story set in the present that reunites the “Poor Things” helmer with Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe; Paul Schrader’s “Oh, Canada” with Richard Gere, based on a novel by the late Russell Banks (“Affliction”); Jacques Audiard’s musical melodrama “Emilia Perez” starring Zoe Saldana and Selena Gomez; Paolo Sorrentino’s “Parthenope” with Gary Oldman; and David Cronenberg’s “The Shrouds” starring Vincent Cassel and Diane Kruger. There’s also Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance,” a female-powered horror film starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley from Universal Pictures and Working Title Films.

Beyond the major studio titles, one of the features attracting the most attention on the Croisette could be Ali Abbasi’s “The Apprentice,” which sees Sebastian Stan take on the role of a Donald Trump in a biopic examining his time as real estate businessman in the 1970s and ’80s. Outside of competition, Irish director Lorcan Finnegan leaps from Critics’ Week (where he screened “Vivarium” in 2019) to official selection with the midnight movie “The Surfer,” featuring Nicolas Cage in the title role.

International movies slated for Cannes’ competition include Karim Aïnouz’s “Motel Destino”; Jia Zhang-Ke’s “Caught by the Tides”; Magnus von Horn’s “The Girl With the Needle” and Kirill Serebrennikov’s “Limonov: The Ballad.”

More will be added to the Competition list, festival director Thierry Frémaux says.

As previously announced, Greta Gerwig will head the Competition Jury. Xavier Dolan will head the Un Certain Regard one.

[Chris Knipp]

The whole Cannes 2024 lineup

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SEE "THE OSCAR EXPERT" INTROS TO SOME OF THE MAIN FILMS

OPENING FILM

LE DEUXIÈME ACTE (THE SECOND ACT) by Quentin DUPIEUX – Out of Competition

COMPETITION

THE APPRENTICE by Ali ABBASI
MOTEL DESTINO by Karim AÏNOUZ
BIRD by Andrea ARNOLD
EMILIA PEREZ by Jacques AUDIARD
ANORA by Sean BAKER
MEGALOPOLIS by Francis Ford COPPOLA
THE SHROUDS by David CRONENBERG
THE SUBSTANCE by Coralie FARGEAT
GRAND TOUR by Miguel GOMES
MARCELLO MIO by Christophe HONORÉ
FENG LIU YI DAI (CAUGHT BY THE TIDES) by JIA Zhang-Ke
ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT by Payal KAPADIA
KINDS OF KINDNESS by Yórgos LÁNTHIMOS
L’AMOUR OUF by Gilles LELLOUCHE
DIAMANT BRUT (WILD DIAMOND) by Agathe RIEDINGER | 1er film
OH CANADA by Paul SCHRADER
LIMONOV – THE BALLAD by Kirill SEREBRENNIKOV
PARTHENOPE by Paolo SORRENTINO
PIGEN MED NÅLEN (THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE) by Magnus VON HORN

UN CERTAIN REGARD

NORAH by Tawfik ALZAIDI | 1st film
THE SHAMELESS by Konstantin BOJANOV
LE ROYAUME by Julien COLONNA | 1st film
VINGT DIEUX by Louise COURVOISIER | 1st film
LE PROCÈS DU CHIEN (DOG ON TRIAL) by Laetitia DOSCH | 1st film
GOU ZHEN by GUAN Hu (BLACK DOG)
THE VILLAGE NEXT TO PARADISE by Mo HARAWE | 1st film
SEPTEMBER SAYS by Ariane LABED | 1st film
L’HISTOIRE DE SOULEYMANE by Boris LOJKINE
THE DAMNED by Roberto MINERVINI
ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL by Rungano NYONI
BOKU NO OHISAMA (MY SUNSHINE) by Hiroshi OKUYAMA
SANTOSH by Sandhya SURI
VIET AND NAM by TRUONG Minh Quý
ARMAND by Halfdan ULLMANN TØNDEL | 1st film

OUT OF COMPETITION

SHE’S GOT NO NAME by CHAN Peter Ho-Sun
HORIZON, AN AMERICAN SAGA by Kevin COSTNER
RUMOURS by Evan JOHNSON, Galen JOHNSON, Guy MADDIN
FURIOSA : A MAD MAX SAGA by George MILLER

MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS

TWILIGHT OF THE WARRIOR WALLED IN by Soi CHEANG
THE SURFER by Lorcan FINNEGAN
LES FEMMES AU BALCON (THE BALCONETTES) by Noémie MERLANT
I, THE EXECUTIONER by RYOO Seung Wan

CANNES PREMIERE

EVERYBODY LOVES TOUDA by Nabil AYOUCH
C’EST PAS MOI by Leos CARAX
EN FANFARE (THE MATCHING BANG) by Emmanuel COURCOL
MISÉRICORDE by Alain GUIRAUDIE
LE ROMAN DE JIM by Arnaud LARRIEU and Jean-Marie LARRIEU
RENDEZ-VOUS AVEC POL POT by Rithy PANH

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

LE FIL by Daniel AUTEUIL
ERNEST COLE, LOST AND FOUND by Raoul PECK
THE INVASION by Sergei LOZNITSA
APPRENDRE by Claire SIMON
LA BELLE DE GAZA by Yolande ZAUBERMAN

[Chris Knipp]

The 2024 Directors’ Fortnight lineup

[FEATURES]
THIS LIFE OF MINE by Sophie Fillières Opening Film
IN HIS OWN IMAGE by Thierry de Peretti
CHRISTMAS EVE IN MILLER'S POINT by Tyler Taormina
DESERT OF NAMBIA by Yôko Yamanaka
EAST OF NOON by Hala Elkoussy
EAT THE NIGHT by Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel
EPHUS by Carson Lund
GAZER by Ryan J. Sloan
GHOST CAT ANZU by Yôko Kuno & Nobuhiro Yamashita
GOOD ONE by India Donaldson
MONGREL by Chiang Wei Liang & You Qiao Yin
VISITING HOURS by Patricia Mazuy
SAVANNA AND THE MOUNTAIN by Paulo Carneiro (Portugal)
SISTER MIDNIGHT by Karan Kandhari
SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW, SOMETHING BORROWED by Hernán Rosselli
THE FALLING SKY by Eryk Rocha & Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha
THE HYPERBOREANS by Cristóbal León & Joaquín Cociña
TO A LAND UNKNOWN by Mahdi Fleifel
THE OTHER WAY AROUND by Jonás Trueba (Spain)
UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE by Matthew Rankin
PLASTIC GUNS by Jean-Christophe Meurisse [Closing Film]

The old symbol for the series used the word "réalizateurs" for directors; the new image for this year uses the word "cinéastes".
The 2024 Cannes Film Festival runs May 14-25.

The Directors’ Fortnight creative director Julien Rejl announced the program on Tuesday. (Directors’ Fortnight, or Quinzaine des Cinéastes, is the big independent sidebar that presents 'adventurous' works simultaneously with Cannes.)

The 21 Directors' Fortnight feature selections come from 14 different countries including four American films (Tyler Taormina’s Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point, Carson Lund’s Eephus, Ryan J. Sloan’s Gazer and India Donaldson’s Good One). There are five French films, two Japanese, one Palestinian, and films from Canada, Argentina, Brazil and Chile (eight films from the Americas). There will be a special screening of Chantal Akerman’s Histoires d’Amérique: Food, Family and Philosophy.

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Milo Machado-Graner in SPECTATEURS by Arnaud Desplechin

Cannes 2024: newly added films

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CANNES COMPETITION AND OTHER ADDITIONS.

The Festival de Cannes has added over a dozen titles to the Festival including three to the Competition roster. The latter include Michel Hazanavincius' animated feature THE MOST PRECIOUS OF CARGOES and Mohammad Rasoulof's THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG. Hazanavincius' is the first animated feature in Cannes Competition since Ari Folman's 2008 WALTZ WITH BASHIR. It is adopted from Jean-Claude Grumberg's bestselling novel about the Holocaust and WWII. Score by Alexandre Desplat. It will release in France Nov. 20. Voiced by the late Jean-Louis Trintignant with Grégory Gadebois and Dominique Blanc.

Mohammad Rasouloof has previously presented MANUSCRIPTS DON'T BURN and A MAN OF INTEGRITY in Un Certain Regard and his last film, THERE IS NO EVIL (2020), won the Golden Bear in the Berlinale, when he was barred from attending by the Iranian government, which has withdrawn the filmmaker's passport and repeatedly detained him in prison.

To Cannes Premiere has been added MARIA by Jessica Palud, a biopic about Maria Schneider based on the book by the subject's cousin Vanessa Schneider, about the tragic life of the actress who starred opposite Marlon Brando in Bernardo Bertolucci’s LAST TANGO IN PARIS. It costars HAPPENING star Anamaria Vartolomei with Matt Dillon as Brando, also including Alain Attal.

International films joining the Special Screenings lineup include Chinese filmmaker Lou Ye’s untitled documentary feature set against the backdrop of the pandemic; Arnaud Desplechin’s feature SPECTATEURS depicting the filmmaker's youth with ANATOMY OF A FALL child actor Milo Machado-Graner and Mathieu Amalric as his alter ego; and Oliver Stone’s LULA, about Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Added to Un Certain Regard is actress Céline Salette’s directorial debut NIKI, another biopic, about the French-American artist Niki de Saint-Phalle, who is played by Charlotte Le Bon.

Full list of the Cannes additions:

Un Certain Regard
WHEN THE LIGHT BREAKS by Rúnar Rúnarsson
NIKI by Céline Sallette
FLOW by Gints Zilbalodis

Cannes Premiere
VIVRE, MORIR, RENAITRE by Gaël Morel
MARIA by Jessica Palud

Special Screenings
SPECTATEURS by Arnaud Desplechin
NASTY by Tudor Giurgiu
LULA by Oliver Stone
AN UNFINISHED FILM by Lou Ye

Out of Competition
LE COMTE DE MONTE-CRISTO by Alexandre de La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte

Competition
THE MOST PRECIOUS OF CARGOES by Michel Hazanavicius
TROIS KILOMMETRES JUSQU'A LA FIN DU MONDE by jusqu`A Emanuel Parvu
HE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG by Mohammad Rasoulof

[Chris Knipp]

Tsui Hark's classic 1984 comedy SHANGHAI BLUES to be part of this year's Cannes Classics

Hong Kong – April 23, 2024 [From the press release.] – A restored 4K version of Tsui Hark’s SHANGHAI BLUES (1984) will be screened as part of the Cannes Classics program at the 77th Cannes Film Festival.

Set against the backdrop of wartime Shanghai in the 1940’s, the film weaves a poignant love story involving a soldier (Kenny Bee) and a young woman (Sylvia Chang) who vow to meet after the war ends, but circumstances keep making them miss their reunion. The film is a blend of romanticism, satirical wit, and whimsical sophistication that showcases Tsui Hark's skill at fusing genres.

The film has been meticulously restored under Hark's supervision with new grading and new dubbing, with each character speaking in their native dialects - Mandarin, Shanghainese, Cantonese and other from various regions to add an extra layer of authenticity and depth to the entertaining script.

SHANGHAI BLUES has a special place for Tsui Hark as the first film of his production company, Film Workshop, established in 1984 with Nansun Shi. Itr also represents the heyday of Hong Kong cinema.