Wes Anderson’s new films, Ari Aster and Richard Linklater will compete for the Golden Palm in 78Th Cannes Film Festival, organizers announced on Thursday, April 10. Coming from a 2024 edition granted by the winner of Best Presentation of the Academy Award Anoraas well as an Oscar contestants in Emilia Pérez” The substance and The apprenticeThe French Film Festival responded with a 2025 alignment, which extended from May 13 to 24, exploding with authors of large notes. Thierry Frépply, general director of Cannes, announced the selections at a press conference in Paris with the president of the Iris Knobloch festival.
Tickets include Aster’s EddingtonA Western Pandemia set starring Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal and Emma Stone; Anderson The Phoenician schemeStarring Benicio del Toro as European benefit; And the appropriate French language of Linklater Nouvelle vagueAbout Jean-Luc Godard and the new French wave. The newly arrived French director, Amelie Bonnin, will receive the honor of opening the festival with her debut function Leave a day.
Julia Ducournou, whose film Titan He won the palm d’Or in 2021, turning Ducourneau into the second road filmmaker who has received the main honor of Cannes at that time, will return to the festival with AlphaSet in the 1980s, New York, about an 11 -year -old boy with a father who has AIDS.
Other previous usual customers of Cannes who return include the two-time winners of Palma Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. The last of the Belgian cinematographic brothers is titled Jeunes Mères (The young mother’s house). Joachim Trier, whose The sausage person in the world It was the highlight of 2021 Cannes, compete with Sentimental valuewhich is also starring Renate Reinsve.
Notable absences
Play outside the competition is that of Scarlett Johansson Eleanor el Grande – Debut of the director of the actor. Among the films that some expected that they could appear in Cannes, but that was not announced the long -awaited drama of Jesús de Terrence Malick THE WIND WAY And Paul Thomas Anderson’s One battle after another.
Cannes announced that Impossible mission: the final calculation It will be launched at the festival, which granted a palm of honorary gold in Tom Cruise three years ago. This year, Robert De Niro will receive one during the festival’s opening ceremony.
Following the steps of Greta Gerwig, Juliette Binoche will lead the jury that decides the palm of this year. Knobloch said it is the first time in 60 years that two women would succeed with each other in this role.
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