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This year’s Cannes Film Festival has 21 films in competition, including movies from four past winners of the top prize Palme d’Or, as well as several cult favourites, reports AFP.
The curtain of the festival will rise on Tuesday, while the winners to be announced at the closing ceremony on May 28.
Crimes of the Future
The horrible genius behind “The Fly” and “Crash”, David Cronenberg returns to his body horror roots with a tale starring Viggo Mortensen, Lea Seydoux and Kristen Stewart about people indulging in revolting surgical alterations for artistic and sexual pleasure. Buckets at the ready.
Triangle of Sadness
The king of cringe, Sweden’s Ruben Ostlund took a scalpel to modern bourgeois niceties with his Palme d’Or-winning “The Square” in 2017.
Tchaikovsky’s Wife
The enfant terrible of Russian film and theatre, Kirill Serebrennikov fell foul of authorities with his caustic attacks on conservative values and was barred from travelling to Cannes for two previous nominations. Now in exile, he should be present for his historical tale about the famous composer.
Armageddon Time
This one is based on James Gray adolescence in 1980s New York and a school governed by Donald Trump’s father, starring Anne Hathaway and Anthony Hopkins.
Broker
Featuring the star of “Parasite” Song Kang-ho, this one is about people dropping off infants in “baby boxes” to be looked after by other families.
Decision to Leave
Park Chan-wook brings his unique stylings to the familiar trope of a detective falling for the prime suspect in a murder investigation.
Showing Up
Kelly Reichardt has gradually built up a cult following with her mini-masterpieces about life on the edges of American society, including 2019 sleeper hit “First Cow”. She is reunited with her favourite muse Michelle Williams for a self-reflective look at a small-town artist trying to overcome distractions.
Tori and Lokita
Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne make simple but devastating slice-of-life stories and are among a handful to have won the Palme d’Or twice. Their latest follows the friendship of two African teenagers exiled in Belgium.
Stars at Noon
One of France’s most lauded auteurs, Claire Denis’s Cannes entry is a political thriller set in Central America starring Robert Pattinson.
R.M.N.
This one explores ethnic and political tensions in a remote Transylvanian village.
Close
Belgium’s Lukas Dhont won the Camera d’Or newcomer award in 2018 for his debut “Girl” about a trans ballet dancer. Here he tackles two teenagers separated by a tragedy.
Boy from Heaven
A daring film about power struggles in the leading centre of Sunni Islam, the Al-Azhar University in Egypt, from Swedish director Tarik Saleh.
Holy Spider
Danish-Iranian Ali Abbasi heads for the Iranian religious city of Mashhad where a family man seeks to rid the streets of prostitutes.
Forever Young
A tale of love, life and tragedy in a Paris theatre troupe against the outbreak of AIDS in the 1980s from French-Italian director Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.
Nostalgia
Italian director Mario Martone pays homage to his hometown of Naples.
Brother and Sister
Marion Cotillard stars in a drama about feuding siblings brought back together by the death of their parents, directed by Cannes veteran Arnaud Desplechin.
Leila’s Brothers
Iran’s Saeed Roustaee’s new film examines the economic struggles of a family in a country hit by international sanctions.
EO
Following a donkey from the circus to the slaughterhouse, this treatise against animal cruelty is from 84-year-old Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski.
Pacification
Spanish director Albert Serra heads for Tahiti to explore the diplomatic tensions around French nuclear testing.
Mother and Son
France’s Leonor Serraille follows a Senegalese mother from the 1980s to the present day as she tries to establish a life in the Paris suburbs.
The Eight Mountains
A story of a lifelong friendship between boys and their rural home from Belgian husband-and-wife team Felix Van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch.
