The opening film of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival has been announced. This year, the honour goes to Asghar Farhadi’s Spanish-language effort Everybody Knows, which stars Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz, and Ricardo Darin, so reports Variety. The film will be the first Spanish-language feature to open the festival since Pedro Almodovar’s Bad Education in 2004.
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The film follows the journey of Laura (played by Cruz), who travels with her family from Buenos Aires to her native village in Spain for a celebration. The family reunion gets disrupted by events that change the course of the characters’ lives, so reports the trade.
Farhadi’s last film, the celebrated The Salesman, played at Cannes back in 2016, but Everybody Knows is his first film to open the prestigious festival.
The Cannes Film Festival runs from May 8th-19th.
