Cannes: Wes Anderson & Paul Verhoeven movies to premiere

After taking a yr off because of the pandemic, The Cannes Film Festival appears on the verge of constructing a significant comeback! This morning, the total listing of titles for the upcoming competition (slated for July sixth to seventeenth on the French Riviera) had been introduced and, as anticipated, it was chockful of big titles, together with Wes Anderson’s a lot delayed THE FRENCH DISPATCH (now popping out October twenty second) and Paul Verhoeven’s lesbian erotic nun film Benedetta. Different titles slated to play the fest embody Leos Carax’s Sparks musical Annette, starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard, Tom McCarthy’s Stillwater starring Matt Damon, Sean Penn’s Flag Day, and, maybe most intriguingly, one thing referred to as JFK Revisited: Via The Wanting Glass by Oliver Stone.

You may see the entire listing of titles beneath (courtesy of Deadline), however I for one am blissful to see Cannes appears to be again with a vengeance. I nonetheless hope to attend one yr (though resulting from journey restrictions – this may not be it), and positive sufficient this appears to be an epic yr for the long-lasting competition. 

CANNES 2021 OFFICIAL SELECTION

COMPETITION
Annette, dir: Leos Carax (opening night time movie)
Flag Day, dir: Sean Penn
Tout S’est Bien Passé, dir: François Ozon
A Hero, dir: Asghar Farhadi
Tre Piani, dir: Nanni Moretti
Titane, dir: Julia Ducournau
The French Dispatch, dir: Wes Anderson
Purple Rocket, dir: Sean Baker
Petrov’s Flu, dir: Kirill Serebrennikov
France, dir: Bruno Dumont
Nitram, dir: Justin Kurzel
Memoria, dir: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Les Olympiades, dir: Jacques Audiard
Benedetta, dir: Paul Verhoeven
La Fracture, dir: Catherine Corsini
The Stressed, dir: Joachim Lafosse
Lingui, dir: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
The Worst Individual In The World, dir: Joachim Trier
Bergman Island, dir: Mia Hansen-Love
Drive My Automobile, dir: Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Ahed’s Knee, dir: Nadav Lapid
Casablanca Beats, dir: Nabil Ayouch
Compartment No. 6, dir: Juho Kuosmanen
The Story Of My Spouse, dir: Ildiko Enyedi

OUT OF COMPETITION
De Son Vivant, dir: Emmanuelle Bercot
Stillwater, dir: Tom McCarthy
The Velvet Underground, dir: Todd Haynes
Bac Nord, dir: Cédric Jiminez
Aline, dir: Valérie Lemercier
Emergency Declaration, dir: Han Jae-Rim

MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
Bloody Oranges, dir: Jean-Christophe Meurisse

CANNES PREMIERES
Evolution, dir: Kornel Mundruczo
Cow, dir: Andrea Arnold
Mothering Sunday, dir: Eva Husson
Love Songs For Robust Guys, dir: Samuel Benchetrit
In Entrance Of Your Face, dir: Hong Sang-soo
Maintain Me Tight, dir: Mathieu Amalric
Deception, dir: Arnaud Desplechin
Val, dirs: Ting Poo, Leo Scott
JFK Revisited: Via The Wanting Glass, dir: Oliver Stone
Jane By Charlotte, dir: Charlotte Gainsbourg

SPECIAL SCREENINGS
H6, dir: Yi Yi
Black Notebooks, dir: Shlomi Elkabetz
Mariner Of The Mountains, dir: Karim Ainouz
Babi Yar. Context, dir: Sergei Loznitsa
The 12 months Of The Eternal Storm; dirs: Jafar Panahi, Anthony Chen, Malik Vitthal, Laura Poitras, Dominga Sotomayor, David Lowery, Apichatpong Weerasethakul

UN CERTAIN REGARD
The Innocents, dir: Eskil Vogt
After Yang, dir: Kogonada
Delo, dir: Alexey German Jr
Bonne Mere, dir: Hafsia Herzi
Noche De Fuego, dir: Tatiana Huezo
Lamb, dir: Vladimar Johansson
Un Monde, dir: Laura Wandel
Freda, dir: Gessica Généus
Moneyboys, dir: CB Yi
Blue Bayou, dir: Justin Chon
Dedication Hasan, dir: Hasan Semih Kaplanoglu
Rehana Maryam Noor, dir: Abdullah Mohammad Saad
Let There Be Morning, dir: Eran Kolirin
Unclenching The Fists, dir: Kira Kovalenko
La Civil, dir: Ana Mihai
Ladies Do Cry, dirs: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova