Cannes gets underway May 16 with the opening-night selection Jeanne du Barry, starring Johnny Depp as King Louis XV
New films by Wes Anderson, Alice Rohrwacher, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Todd Haynes and Wim Wenders will compete for the Cannes Film Festival’s coveted top honour, the Palme d’Or, as will a record number of films directed by women.
After a scaled-down 2021 event and a comeback festival in 2022, this year’s Cannes finds the festival back on level ground and its organizers triumphant that their mission – celebrating the best in world cinema as an inherently theatrical experience – has persevered. Cannes has often come under criticism for selecting few films by women for its prestigious competition lineup. Only two female filmmakers have ever won the Palme d’Or: Jane Campion in 1993 for “The Piano” and Julia Ducournau in 2021 for “Titane.” While six out of 19 films is a new high, it still falls below the parity that some have sought.
Not in competition for the Palme is Quebec filmmaker Monia Chokri’s “Simple Comme Sylvain,” which will play as part of the festival’s Un Certain Regard program. That lineup is focused on auteur and discovery cinema.
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