The Midnight Screening lineup features Robert Rodriguez’s Hypnotic and Kim Tae-gon’s Project Silence. La Théorème de Marguerite stars Ella Rumpf as a brilliant maths student whose certitudes are shaken when she discovers an error in her end-of-studies thesis. The work is produced by Jennifer Lawrence and Justine Ciarrocchi produce under the banner of their company Excellent Cadaver. Mani’s documentary Bread and Roses follows the experiences of three Afghan women as they deal with life under Taliban rule, after it took control of Kabul in the summer of 2021 and immediately deprived women of all basic freedoms. Little Girl Blue is a docudrama starring Marion Cotillard as director Achache’s mother. There will be Special Screenings for French-Moroccan filmmaker Mona Achache’s Little Girl Blue, Afghan director Sahra Mani’s Bread and Roses and French-Swedish director Anna Novion’s La Théorème de Marguerite. The latter film will screen Out Of Competition as the closing film of the section. Two more titles have been added to Un Certain Regard: Chinese director Wei Shujun’s Only The River Flows and French director Alex Lutz’s Une Nuit. The biopic stars Benjamin Lavernhe as the French Catholic priest and French Resistance member Abbé Pierre, who went on to found the charitable Emmaus movement for the poor and homeless. There will be Out of Competition screening for Frédéric Tellier’s L’Abbé Pierre – Une Vie de Combats. The film shot in Almería, Spain, and stars Viggo Mortensen.

Just The Two Of Us is Donzelli’s sixth film and stars Virginie Efira as a woman who thinks she has found the man of her dreams (Melvil Poupaud) but slowly finds herself in the grip of a possessive and dangerous partner.Īlonso’s new film is an ambitious historical drama set across four distinct sections, which examine the indigenous peoples of the Americas and how they’ve inhabited their specific environments across the centuries.

His new film follows a man on a mission to track down the people responsible for his mother’s disappearance. The Cannes Premiere section has been bolstered with Mexican director Amat Escalante’s Lost In The Night ( Perdidos en la Noche) French director Valérie Donzelli’s Just The Two Of Us ( L’Amour et Les Forêts) and Argentinian director Lisandro Alonso’s Eureka.Įscalante won Best Director for Heli in Cannes in 2013. Allegations of inappropriate behaviour on the Corsica-based set – detailed in reports by French newspapers Le Parisien and Libération – forced the festival to put its selection on hold, while it looked into the matter.Ĭannes Delegate General Thierry Frémaux is reported to have said that he would not be swayed by rumors.

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