Gillian Anderson and Cara Delevingne to hit Cannes as auteur heavyweights dominate festival lineup

The 79th edition of the film festival will see work by Pedro Almodóvar, Hirokazu Kore-eda and László Nemes considered for the coveted Palme d’Or Gillian Anderson, Rami Malek, Cara Delevingne and John Travolta are expected to walk the red carpet at Cannes this year, as the world’s most influential film festival unveiled an auteur-heavy lineup for its 79th edition. Competing for the coveted Palme d’Or will be new films by heavyweights Pedro Almodóvar, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Paweł Pawlikowski, László Nemes and Asghar Farhadi. Continue reading…

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The 79th edition of the film festival will see work by Pedro Almodóvar, Hirokazu Kore-eda and László Nemes considered for the coveted Palme d’Or Gillian Anderson, Rami Malek, Cara Delevingne and John Travolta are expected to walk the red carpet at Cannes this year, as the world’s most influential film festival unveiled an auteur-heavy lineup for its 79th edition. Competing for the coveted Palme d’Or will be new films by heavyweights Pedro Almodóvar, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Paweł Pawlikowski, László Nemes and Asghar Farhadi. Continue reading…

The 79th edition of the film festival will see work by Pedro Almodóvar, Hirokazu Kore-eda and László Nemes considered for the coveted Palme d’Or

Gillian Anderson, Rami Malek, Cara Delevingne and John Travolta are expected to walk the red carpet at Cannes this year, as the world’s most influential film festival unveiled an auteur-heavy lineup for its 79th edition.

Competing for the coveted Palme d’Or will be new films by heavyweights Pedro Almodóvar, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Paweł Pawlikowski, László Nemes and Asghar Farhadi.

Spanish director Almodóvar, who previously won awards at Cannes for All About My Mother and Volver, makes a return with Bitter Christmas, about a group of film-maker friends who cannibalise each other’s lives for their work.

Sandra Hüller stars as the daughter of German novelist Thomas Mann in Oscar-winning Polish film-maker’s Pawlikowski’s Fatherland, set on the eve of the Manns’ return from American exile after the second world war.

Hungarian director Nemes, who won an Oscar for Son of Saul in 2016, returns with French resistance drama Moulin, while Romanian director Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) makes a comeback with Norway-set Fjord.

Exiled Russian auteur Andrey Zvyagintsev (Leviathan) is to premiere his film Minotaur, a political thriller about a Russian business executive who discovers his wife is having an affair, while two-time Oscar winner Asghar Farhadi (A Separation) brings Parallel Lives, starring Isabelle Huppert and Vincent Cassel.

Two of Japan’s leading film-makers will present new films on the French Riviera, with Drive My Car director Ryusuke Hamaguchi showing All of a Sudden, set in a Parisian nursing home, and the premiere of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s AI-themed science-fiction drama Sheep in the Box.

After talk around the fringes of last year’s festival was dominated by US president Donald Trump’s threat to impose tariffs on “movies made in foreign lands”, this year’s competition lineup is notable for a near-total absence of American directors.

The only US director in the main competition is Ira Sachs with The Man I Love, a musical fantasy depicting the impact of the Aids epidemic on struggling artists, starring Rami Malek, Tom Sturridge and Rebecca Hall.

In the Un Certain Regard slot there will be premieres for American film-maker Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, starring Gillian Anderson, and Jordan Firstman’s directorial debut Club Kid featuring himself, Cara Delevingne, Diego