What to Know About Cannes (Other Than the Movies)

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Le Festival de Cannes is coming soon, oui, oui, and les détails are inactive pouring in. The lineup is beauteous overmuch afloat retired determination — featuring Francis Ford Coppola’s weirdo opus Megalopolis; Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos’s umpteenth collaboration, Kinds of Kindness; and David Cronenberg’s latest movie that you’ll ticker successful betwixt your fingers, The Shrouds. But reports astir the films are truly lone portion of the entreaty to the wide nationalist since we won’t beryllium capable to spot astir of them for a bully portion aft their festival premieres. Also breathtaking is learning who we volition get to spot wearing extremely French outfits connected the reddish carpet, who volition springiness speeches, and whose sensation we volition get to justice due to the fact that they’re connected the Cannes jury. Below, find each the info astir Cannes you request to cognize to cure your FOMO.

The judges are the astir important radical astatine Cannes. Obviously, they determine who wins. But they besides locomotion the astir reddish carpets since they person to spot each movie successful competition. This year, the assemblage volition beryllium presided implicit by Greta Gerwig, who, Cannes is blessed to announce, is the archetypal “American pistillate director,” which is honestly excessively galore adjectives to marque this genuinely historic. Jury members see Turkish screenwriter Ebru Ceylan, histrion Lily Gladstone, French histrion Eva Green, Lebanese writer-director Nadine Labaki, Spanish writer-director Juan Antonio Bayona, Italian histrion Pierfrancisco Favino, Japanese manager Kore-eda Hirokazu, and French histrion Omar Sy. In presumption of the carpet, we’re astir excited to spot what Gladstone breaks retired because, well, look astatine her.

Most of the awards volition beryllium decided onsite by the jury, but immoderate are decided earlier Cannes adjacent begins. One of those is going to a little-known histrion named (checks notes) Meryl Streep. She’ll beryllium receiving an honorary Palme d’Or astatine the opening-night festival, Variety reported. The closing nighttime honorary Palme d’Or volition spell to George Lucas, of the insignificant movie bid Star Wars. Finally, Studio Ghibli volition person an honorary Palme arsenic well, marking the archetypal radical to win.

The 77th Cannes Film Festival’s opening nighttime is scheduled for May 14, with Quentin Dupieux’s The Second Act kicking disconnected the fest. It ends connected May 25, though the closing-night movie has not yet been revealed. Quelle surprise!