April 13 (Reuters) – Wes Anderson, Ken Loach, Todd Haynes and Wim Wenders are among the many administrators who will compete for the highest prize at subsequent month’s Cannes Movie Competition, the place a spate of Hollywood stars may even premiere their newest works on the famed Croisette waterfront.
At a press convention on Thursday, competition director Thierry Fremaux introduced the line-up for the 76th version of main cinema showcase from Could 16-27.
Nineteen movies will vie for the competition’s coveted Palme d’Or prize, of which six are directed by girls.
“It is a competitors that can combine younger filmmakers competing for the primary time with veterans whose names and works we all know,” Fremaux mentioned.
Loach returns to the competition with “The Outdated Oak”, about Syrian refugees arriving in a former mining village in Britain, whereas Anderson brings his star-studded “Asteroid Metropolis”, through which main occasions disrupt a junior stargazer conference.
Different administrators in competitors embody American filmmaker Haynes with “Could December” starring Oscar winners Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore, Italian Nanni Moretti with “Il Sol Dell’Avvenire”, German filmmaker Wim Wenders with “Good Days” and Japan’s Hirokazu Kore-eda with “Monster”.
Ladies administrators in competitors embody France’s Catherine Breillat with “L’Ete Dernier”, Austrian Jessica Hausner with “Membership Zero” and Tunisian Kaouther Ben Hania with “Les Filles D’Olfa”.
Organisers have already introduced the competition’s opener – biographical drama “Jeanne du Barry” that includes Johnny Depp, the Hollywood star’s first live-action movie since his defamation trial towards ex-wife Amber Heard final yr.
Additionally out of competitors is veteran Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon”, concerning the murders of Osage Native Individuals. Set in Twenties Oklahoma, the film options previous Scorsese collaborators Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Jesse Plemons.
Adventurer Indiana Jones may even return to the competition 15 years since his final look in Cannes. Harrison Ford reprises the title function in “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Future”, which can have its world premiere in France.
Fremaux mentioned there would even be a particular tribute to Ford’s profession on the competition.
Swedish director Ruben Ostlund, whose movie “Triangle of Disappointment” received final yr’s Palme d’Or, will preside over the jury at this yr’s competitors.
Reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian
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