No Hollywood studio films are scheduled so far for the world's most prestigious film festival, which organizers say will feature 12 female directors this year, up from nine last year.
Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Fremaux and president Pierre Lescure on Thursday unveiled the lineup for the iconic Côte d'Azur event's 70th anniversary edition, to be held May 17-28.
Bringing some Hollywood presence to the Croisette this year will be Todd Haynes' period drama Wonderstruck, starring Julianne Moore and Michelle Williams, and Sofia Coppola's The Beguiled, with Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst and Elle Fanning. Cannes veterans Michael Haneke, who won the Palme d'Or twice before, and Michel Hazanavicius also are returning with Happy End and Le Redoutable, respectively.
Fremaux and Lescure took to the stage just after 11 a.m. local time, kicking off the traditional lineup press conference at Paris' UGC Cinema on the French capital's Champs Elysees.
Lescure opened the press event by mentioning the upcoming French election and U.S. President Donald Trump. "We are in a suspenseful moment for the world," he said, adding, "Since we have a new surprise every day from Donald Trump, I hope North Korea, Syria will not cast a shadow" over Cannes.
The festival will include 19 competition titles, four out-of-competition titles, three midnight screenings, one special screening and nine first films from 1,930 submitted movies. Fremaux said 12 female directors will be featured in the official selection, up from nine last year.
Benny and Josh Safdie's Good Time, a crime drama starring Robert Pattinson, and Lynne Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here, toplined by Joaquin Phoenix, will be among the titles bringing extra star power to the Cannes red carpet.
And speaking of star power, Nicole Kidman will feature in four competition and other section entries, having the biggest presence of all the bold names at the fest next month.
The first competition title unveiled was Andrei Zvyagintsev's new film Loveless. After his success with Leviathan, the Russian culture ministry had said Zvyagintsev would get no more state money for his productions, so the film was made without official Russian support and instead put together as a co-production with Germany, France and Belgium, with Eurimages support. Fremaux spoke about a revival of Russian filmmaking in discussing the lineup.
Also in the Cannes lineup is Al Gore's An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, which follows Gore as he travels the world raising awareness of climate change and trying to push people and governments to embrace renewable energy. Additional political edge comes from a Vanessa Redgrave documentary about refugees called Sea Sorrow.
Adding high-profile TV projects for the first time, Cannes will also screen two episodes of David Lynch's Twin Peaks revival for Showtime and show Jane Campion's Top of the Lake 2 as special events.
As previously announced, Spanish director Pedro Almodovar will oversee the main competition jury that will award the Palme d'Or and other top prizes.
Palme d'Or winner Cristian Mungiu will head up the student and short films jury, and Cesar-winning French actress Sandrine Kiberlain will head the Camera d'Or jury, which selects the best first film from across all sections and sidebars.
Among Thursday's first announcements was that a short virtual reality project from Alejandro G. Inarritu will be part of the festival, as will Kristen Stewart's short film Come Swim.
Inarritu's VR short was produced and financed by Legendary Entertainment and Fondazione Prada, while ILMxLAB, Lucasfilm’s recently established immersive entertainment division, built the virtual world and characters. It explores the experience of a group of immigrants as they cross over the border between Mexico and the U.S. Inarritu, who spent four years developing the project, partnered with his frequent collaborator and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki on it.
The poster for this year's festival, which shows an exuberant Claudia Cardinale dancing, has been a source of controversy, with fans expressing outrage that the actress appeared to be slimmed down and retouched.
The full Cannes lineup is below.
Competition
Loveless, Andrei Zvyagintsev
Good Time, Benny and Josh Safdie
You Were Never Really Here, Lynne Ramsay
L'Amant Double, Francois Ozon
A Gentle Creature, Sergei Loznitsa
The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Yorgos Lanthimos
Hikari (Radiance), Naomi Kawase
The Day After, Hong Sangsoo
Le Redoutable, Michel Hazanavicius
Wonderstruck, Todd Haynes
Happy End, Michael Haneke
The Beguiled, Sofia Coppola
120 Battements par Minute, Robin Campillo
Okja, Bong Joon-Ho
Aus dem Nichts (In the Fade), Fatih Akin
Les Fantomes D』Ismael, Arnaud Desplechin
The Meyerowitz Stories, Noah Baumbach
Out-of-Competition
How to Talk to Girls at Parties, John Cameron Mitchell
Visages, Villages, Agnes Varda & JR
Mugen Non Junin (Blade of the Immortal), Takashi Miike
Un Certain Regard
Barbara, Mathieu Amalric
A Novia Del Desierto (The Desert Bride) by Cecilia Atan &Valeria Pivato
Tesnota (Closeness) by Kantemir Balagov
Aala Kaf Ifrit (Beauty and the Dogs), Kaouther Ben Hania
L』Atelier, Laurent Cantet
Fortunata (Lucky), Sergio Castellito
Las Hijas de Abril (April's Daughter), Michel Franco
Western, Valeska Grisebach
Posoki (Directions), Stephan Komandarev
Out, Gyorgy Kristof
Sanpo Suru Shinryakusha (Before We Vanish), Kiyoshi Kurosawa
En Attendant Les Hirondelles (The Nature of Time), Karim Moussaoui
Lerd (Dregs), Mohammad Rasoulof
Jeune Femme, Leonor Serrraille
Wind River, Taylor Sheridan
Apres La Guerre (After the War), Annarita Zambrano
Special Screenings
Claire’s Camera, Hong Sangsoo
12 Jours, Raymond Depardon
They, Anahita Ghazvinizadeh
Promised Land, Eugene Jarecki
Napalm, Claude Lanzmann
Demons in Paradise, Jude Ratman
Sea Sorrow, Vanessa Redgrave
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk
Midnight Screenings
The Villainess, Jung Byung-Gil
The Merciless, Byun Sung-Hyun
Prayer Before Dawn, Jean-Stephane Sauvaire
Virtual Reality Film
Carne y Arena, Alejandro G. Inarritu
70th Anniversary Events
Top of the Lake: China Girl, Jane Campion & Ariel Kleiman
24 Frames, Abbas Kiarostami
Twin Peaks, David Lynch
Come Swim, Kristen Stewart
4 月 13 日，第 70 屆坎城國際電影節主辦方公布了競賽片單。官方公布了的片單中，有來自 29 個國家的 49 部電影。藝術總監蒂耶裡·雷茂透露，今年選片階段是看了 1930 部左右影片才最終確定名單。
這份名單中並沒有出現華語電影的身影。據新華網消息，華語電影「可能出現在電影節官方單元追加名單中。」
在最受矚目的主競賽單元中，18 部電影將角逐最佳影片金棕櫚獎。
這其中包括坎城常客、兩次金棕櫚獎得主奧地利導演麥可·哈內克的新作《快樂結局》。於佩爾出演的這部電影聚焦的是一個法國北部中產階級家庭對於生活環境外廣闊世界的迷茫，以及他們面對外來移民問題時遭受的挫折。奧斯卡最佳導演得主、兩次入圍金棕櫚獎的法國導演米歇爾·阿扎納維修也憑藉《敬畏》入圍。
主競賽單元也有不少首次入圍坎城電影節的獨立導演們的作品。比如美國諾亞·鮑姆巴赫的《邁耶羅維茨的故事》。這部電影匯集了亞當·桑德勒、本·斯蒂勒以及達斯汀·霍夫曼等一票明星，講述的是一個關於兩代人之間關係的故事。又比如同樣來自美國的薩弗迪兄弟的《好時光》。他們 2014 年執導的影片《天知道》（Heaven Knows What）曾獲第 27 屆東京國際電影節最佳影片金麒麟獎和最佳導演獎。犯罪劇情片《好時光》中，羅伯特·帕丁森出演的是一位銀行搶劫逃犯。
三部亞洲電影出現在了主競賽單元中。分別是韓國導演洪常秀的《那之後》、我們之前報導過的奉俊昊的《玉子》，以及日本女導演河瀨直美的新作《光》。
年初憑藉《雄獅》獲得奧斯卡最佳女配角提名、製作並主演了 HBO 新熱劇《大小謊言》的妮可·基德曼有兩部電影入圍了主競賽單元，兩部都是與科林·法瑞爾同演。它們分別是由《龍蝦》導演歐格斯·蘭斯莫斯執導的《聖鹿之死》以及索菲亞·科波拉翻拍的《牡丹花下》。
值得一提的是，此前沒有到過坎城的 Netflix 這次有兩部作品入圍了主競賽單元，分別是前文提到的《邁耶羅維茨的故事》和《玉子》。去年參與投資《帕特森》、《霓虹惡魔》、《咖啡公社》等入圍坎城影片的亞馬遜，今年有《寂靜中的驚奇》入圍了主競賽單元。《卡羅爾》導演託德·海因斯的這部《寂靜中的驚奇》將以半默片形式呈現，講述兩名失聰兒童的故事。
第 70 屆坎城電影節將於 5 月 17 日至 28 日在法國南部城市坎城舉行。有「鬼才導演」之稱的西班牙著名導演、編劇佩德羅·阿爾莫多瓦爾將出任本屆電影節評委會主席。
下面是 13 日官方公布的片單：
開幕片
《伊斯梅爾的幽魂》阿諾·德斯普裡欽，法國
主競賽單元
《牡丹花下》索菲亞·科波拉，美國
《那之後》洪常秀，韓國
《秘密情人》弗朗索瓦·歐容，法國
《邁耶羅維茨的故事》諾亞·鮑姆巴赫，美國
《快樂結局》麥可·哈內克，奧地利
《玉子》奉俊昊，韓國
《寂靜中的驚奇》託德·海因斯，美國
《聖鹿之死》歐格斯·蘭斯莫斯，英國/美國
《敬畏》米歇爾·哈扎納維希烏斯，法國
《羅丹》雅克·杜瓦隆，法國
《每分鐘120擊》羅賓·卡皮洛，法國
《無愛可訴》安德烈·薩金塞夫，法國
《光》河瀨直美，日本
《多餘的人》凱內爾·穆德盧佐，匈牙利
《你從未真正停駐》琳恩·拉姆塞，美國/法國
《溫柔女子》謝爾蓋·洛茲尼察，白俄羅斯
《從哪冒出來》法提赫·阿金，德國
《好時光》薩弗迪兄弟，美國
一種關注單元
《芭芭拉》馬修·阿馬立克，法國
《沙漠新娘》Cecilia Atan/Valeria Pivato，阿根廷/智利
《Closeness》Kantemir Balagov
《美女與狗》Kaouther Ben Hania
《L'atelier》塞吉·卡斯特裡圖，義大利
《四月的女兒》米歇爾·弗蘭克，墨西哥
《散步的侵略者》黑澤清，日本
《Lerd》穆哈默德·拉素羅夫
《En Attendant Les Hirondelles》Karim Moussaoui，法國
《Apres La Guerre》Annarita Zambrano
《風河谷》泰勒·謝裡丹，美國/英國/加拿大
《Jeune Femme》Leonor Serraille
特別展映單元
《謎湖之巔》簡·坎皮恩/加斯·戴維斯，英國
《Come Swim》克裡斯汀·斯圖爾特，美國
《24 幀》阿巴斯·基亞羅斯塔米，伊朗
《雙峰》大衛·林奇，美國
《難以忽視的真相2》Bonni Cohen/Jon Shenk，美國
《12 天》雷蒙·德帕東，法國
《他們》Anahita Ghazinizadeh
《克萊爾的相機》洪常秀，法國/韓國
《應許之地》Eugene Jarecki
《Napalm》克勞德·朗茲曼，法國
《天堂裡的惡魔》Jude Ratman
《Sea Sorrow》瓦妮莎·雷德格瑞夫，英國
午夜展映單元
《惡女》鄭秉吉，韓國
《殘忍無情》卞成賢，韓國
《煉獄信使》讓-史蒂芬·薩瓦爾，英國/法國
非競賽展映單元
《無限之住人》三池崇史，日本
《派對把妹秘訣》約翰·卡梅隆·米切爾，美國
《Visages》JR/Agnès Varda，法國
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