CANNES, France (AP) — The 78th Cannes Movie Competition received underway Tuesday, kicking off two weeks of French Riviera frenzy. Listed below are 5 issues to search for at this 12 months’s Cannes:
Oscar season begins now
It’d nonetheless be springtime, however, make no mistake, a number of Oscar campaigns will likely be launched in Cannes.
Latest Cannes editions have produced a number of best-picture winners, together with Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” and this 12 months’s winner, “Anora” by Sean Baker. The sway Cannes has on the Academy of Movement Photos Arts and Sciences has solely grown lately because the academy has expanded its abroad membership — a lot of them European voters who carefully comply with the excitement in Cannes.
On the Oscars in March, three Cannes entries — “Anora,” “Emilia Perez” and “The Substance” — have been among the many 10 best-picture nominees. Much less heralded motion pictures also can emerge. The Latvian animated charmer “Flow” premiered final 12 months in Cannes earlier than its upset win on the Oscars.
As ever, a wide-open Palme d’Or race
Earlier than we get to the Academy Awards, although, Cannes will hand out its personal prize, the Palme d’Or.
Deliberations by the jury (headed this 12 months by Juliette Binoche ) are held solely in non-public, so predicting the Palme isn’t any simpler than it was guessing the following pope. That doesn’t cease bookies from handicapping the race and loads of guesswork up and down the Croisette.
This 12 months’s competitors lineup options two earlier Palme winners in Julia Ducournau (who returns with “Alpha,” her follow-up to “Titane”) and Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (two-time winners, again this 12 months with “The Young Mother’s Home”).
A number of the motion pictures that could possibly be within the combine embody Lynne Ramsay’s “Die, My Love,” Jafar Panahi’s “A Simple Accident” and Mascha Schilinksi’s “Sound of Falling.” Or it could possibly be Chie Hayakawa’s “Renoir,” Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value” or Ari Aster’s “Eddington.” Or it could possibly be … properly, you get the concept.
Who will shine on the pink carpet in Cannes?
Cannes has an influence to burnish even essentially the most established stars, and its pink carpet will, for the following 10 days, host a nonstop parade of them. (And they are going to be clothed, as per Cannes’ newest etiquette protocol.)
Amongst these on faucet are Tom Cruise with “Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning” on Wednesday; Spike Lee’s “Highest 2 Lowest,” with Denzel Washington; Wes Anderson’s “The Phoenician Scheme,” with a solid that includes Benicio Del Toro and Michael Cera; Ari Aster’s “Eddington,” with Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal and Emma Stone; and Oliver Hermanus’ “The History of Sound,” with Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor.
O’Connor additionally stars in Kelly Reichardt’s “The Mastermind,” scheduled as one of many competition’s final premieres.
How will the actors-turned-directors fare?
Three stars are coming to Cannes with their first options behind the digital camera: Scarlett Johansson (“Eleanor the Great”), Kristen Stewart (“The Chronology of Water”) and Harris Dickinson (“Urchin”). All are premiering within the Cannes sidebar Un Sure Regard, which implies they received’t have fairly the strain of the competitors lineup. However there’s no calm or easygoing part of Cannes, and every might emerge from the competition both minted as a filmmaker or humbled by critics.
Will the specter of tariffs dampen deal making?
Whereas Cannes film screens gentle up with movies, deal making transpires alongside the Croisette. Cannes attracts studios, producers and gross sales brokers all on the hunt for acquisitions. However when U.S. President Donald Trump final week introduced that he needs to enact tariffs on movies made outdoors the U.S., it threw an enormous wrench within the border-crossing dealmaking that Cannes makes a speciality of. But with little element on any potential tariffs and widespread doubt over its feasibility, the shopping for and promoting of films may not be slowed.
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