The 75th Cannes Film Festival has just unveiled its official selection this Thursday, where big names were expected, such as the already confirmed presence of Tom Cruise out of competition. The traditional press conference, in a cinema on the Champs-Élysées, where the general delegate, Thierry Frémaux, announced the list of elected officials, was more expected than ever: one month before the kick-off at the top of the steps, almost no information had filtered on this edition. The organizers have not yet lifted the veil on the identity of who will succeed Spike Lee as president of the jury, which will be revealed in the days to come. The festival, which returns to its usual dates before the pandemic – from May 17 to 28 – and intends to strengthen its media coverage and on social networks beyond France by replacing Canal+, historical partner, with a France Télévisions-Brut-TikTok team, could offer a platform to Ukrainian filmmakers , or to Russians breaking with Vladimir Putin’s regime. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Cannes immediately announced that it would not host official “Russian delegations”. increase but which do not have citizenship in the Cannes competition if they do not release their films in French cinemas, or the directions that the festival intends to take after this final edition chaired by Pierre Lescure, who will hand over in July to a lawyer, Iris Knobloch, ex-WarnerMedia. The official selection finally unveiled It’s Z (like Z), the remake of the zombie film by Michel Hazanavicius, which will open the Cannes Film Festival this year. More than 2,000 films have been submitted and forty-seven have been shortlisted, eighteen of which will be eligible for the Palme d’Or, after the breathtaking and divisive coronation of Frenchwoman Julia Ducournau, last year, for her work gore and feminist Titane, which will be awarded during the closing ceremony, hosted by Virginie Efira. Last year, to compensate for the cancellation of the 2020 edition, eighty films were selected at Cannes. Out of competition, the festival had already announced the presence of Tom Cruise, back in the cockpit to present, thirty- five years later, a sequel to the mythical Top Gun and the highly anticipated biopic Elvis by Baz Luhrmann (Moulin rouge). Thierry Frémaux completed the selection of films which will be screened in the main hall of the Croisette with Cédric Jimenez’s new film, Novembre, on the attacks of November 13, Three Thousand Years of Longing by George Miller, a reflection on the history of the world, and finally Masquerade, by Nicolas Bedos, back on the Croisette for the third time. Cohen, Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind, his first solo film. He continued with the selection of “Midnight Screenings” which, in keeping with tradition, will screen a Korean film, the debut of Squid Game actor Lee Jung-jae, which will feature Hunt, but also the new film by Quentin Dupieux, Smoking makes you cough.As for “Cannes Première”, four films will be offered, including Our brothers by Rachid Bouchareb, who marked the Cannes Film Festival with Indigènes, and episodes of the series for HBO Irma Vep by Olivier Assayas. In the “Un certain regard” selection, fifteen films will compete, of which seven are first films and eight were directed by women. On the French side, we will find the directors Lise Akoka and Romane Guéret who will present their first film, Les Pires, as well as Lola Quivoron, also present in Cannes for her first film, Rodéo. Finally, on the side of the Official Competition, 155 countries submitted films but only eighteen were shortlisted for the festival’s top prize. Four filmmakers in this selection have already received the Palme d’or. Were particularly expected and have been confirmed by Thierry Frémaux: Crime of the Future, a horror science fiction film by David Cronenberg for which he rallied Viggo Mortensen, Kristen Stewart and Léa Seydoux, Tori and Lokita by the Dardenne brothers, who are competing for their third Palme, Stars at Noon by Claire Denis, shot in Central America, Brother and Sister by Arnaud Desplechin, Armageddon Time by James Gray and Triangle of Sadness, by Swedish director Ruben Östlund, Palme d’or 2017 with the grating The Square. Here is the complete list of the official selection of the 75th Cannes Film Festival:Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind by Ethan CohenAll That Breathes by Shaunak SenThe Natural History of Destruction by Sergei LoznitsaMoonage Daydream by Brett MorgenSmoking makes you cough by Quentin DupieuxOur brothers by Rachid BoucharebEsterno Notte by Marco BellocchioIrma Vep by Olivier AssayasLes Pires by Lise Akoka and Romane GueretKurak Günler by Emin AlperMetronom by Alexandru BelcReturn to Seoul by Dav y ChouSick of Myself by Kristoffer BorgliDomingo y la Niebla by Ariel Escalante MezaBeast by Riley Keough and Gina GammelCorsage by Marie KreutzerBachennya Metelyka by Maksim NakonechnyiVanskabte Land / Volada Land by Hlynur PalmasonThe Stranger by Thomas M. WrightThe Silent Twins by Agnieszka SmocynskaCrime of the Future by David CronenbergTori and Lokita by the Dardenne brothersStars at Noon by Claire DenisBrother and sister by Arnaud DesplechinArmageddon Time by James GrayTriangle of Sadness by Ruben OstlundLes Amandiers by Valeria Bruni TedeschiOly Spider by Ali AbbassiNostalgia by Mario MartoneDecision to Leave by Park Chan-wookShowing Up by Kelly ReichardtLeila’s Brothers by Saeed RoustaeeBoy from Heaven by Tarik SalehZhena Chaikovskogo by Kirill SerebrennikovHi-Han by Jerzy Skolimowski
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