The official selection for the 72nd Cannes Film Festival, which will take place in the south of France from 14th-25th May has been revealed in a press conference this morning.
Photo: La Pointe courte © 1994 Agnès Varda and her children, Montage and design: Flore Maquin / www.flore-maquin.com
Thierry Frémaux, General Delegate announced the full line-up for Cannes 2019, and it is impressive! The list includes films from Jim Jarmusch, Pedro Almodóvar, Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne, Ken Loach (who won the Palme d’Or a couple of years ago with I, Daniel Blake), Terrence Malick,
Here goes:
Competition
THE DEAD DON’T DIE by Jim Jarmusch (opening film, previously announced)
DOLOR Y GLORIA (Douleur et Gloire / Pain and Glory) by Pedro Almodóvar
IL TRADITORE (Le Traître / The Traitor) by Marco Bellocchio
NAN FANG CHE ZHAN DE JU HUI (The Wild Goose Lake) by Diao Yinan
GISAENGCHUNG (Parasite) by Bong Joon Ho
LE JEUNE AHMED (Young Ahmed) by Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
ROUBAIX, UNE LUMIÈRE (Oh Mercy!) by Arnaud Desplechin
ATLANTIQUE by Mati Diop
MATTHIAS ET MAXIME (Matthias and Maxime) by Xavier Dolan
LITTLE JOE by Jessica Hausner
SORRY WE MISSED YOU by Ken Loach
LES MISÉRABLES by Ladj Ly
A HIDDEN LIFE (Une vie cachée) by Terrence Malick
BACURAU by Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles
LA GOMERA (The Whistlers) by Corneliu Porumboiu
FRANKIE by Ira Sachs
PORTRAIT DE LA JEUNE FILLE EN FEU by Céline Sciamma
IT MUST BE HEAVEN by Elia Suleiman
SIBYL by Justine Triet
Playing out of competition will be:
LES PLUS BELLES ANNÉES D’UNE VIE (The Best Years of a Life) by Claude Lelouch
ROCKETMAN by Dexter Fletcher
TOO OLD TO DIE YOUNG – NORTH OF HOLLYWOOD, WEST OF HELL by Nicolas Winding Refn
DIEGO MARADONA by Asif Kapadia
LA BELLE ÉPOQUE by Nicolas Bedos
Midnight screenings this year ARE:
THE GANGSTER, THE COP, THE DEVIL by Lee Won-Tae
Special screenings:
SHARE by Pippa Bianco
FOR SAMA by Waad Al Kateab & Edward Watts
FAMILY ROMANCE, LLC. By Werner Herzog
TOMMASO by Abel Ferrara
ÊTRE VIVANT ET LE SAVOIR by Alain Cavalie
Un Certain Regard
VIDA INVISIVEL (Invisible Life) by Karim Aïnouz
DYLDA (Beanpole) by Kantemir Balagov
LES HIRONDELLES DE KABOUL (The Swallows of Kabul) by Zabou Breitman & Eléa Gobé Mévellec
LA FEMME DE MON FRÈRE (A Brother’s Love) by Monia Chokri
THE CLIMB by Michael Covino
JEANNE (Joan of Arc) by Bruno Dumont
O QUE ARDE (Viendra le feu / A sun that never sets) by Olivier Laxe
CHAMBRE 212 by Christophe Honoré
PORT AUTHORITY by Danielle Lessovitz
PAPICHA by Mounia Meddour
ADAM by Maryam Touzani
ZHUO REN MI MI by Midi Z
LIBERTÉ by Albert Serra
BULL by Annie Silverstein
LIU YU TIAN (Summer of Changsha) by Zu Feng
EVGE by Nariman Aliev
At this year’s festival, Alain Delon will be awarded an Honorary Palme d’or to pay tribute to his wonderful presence in the history of film. The news of the honour was announced yesterday.
“Pierre Lescure and I are delighted that Alain Delon has accepted to be honoured by the Festival,” said Frémaux. “He hesitated for a long time, having long been reluctant to this Palme d’or because he thought he should only come to Cannes to celebrate the directors he had been working with.”
The 72nd International Film Festival will run from 14th to 25 May 2019. The Jury will be chaired by Alejandro González Inárritu. Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die will open the competition on the 14th.
