May is the time of the year again for film fans around the world. As the politics of the Berlin Film Festival become more and more intense, the influence of the Venice Film Festival is declining, the so-called three major European film festivals seem to have ceased to exist, and today's Cannes Film Festival can be described as a thriving, even the highest temple of film in the world today, it is no exaggeration, and many masters and rookies have made Cannes the global premiere of their new works.
This year also coincides with the 70th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, and it seems that all the big directors are holding back their strength to offer birthday wishes to Cannes with good works, so there are many films worth paying attention to this year. The lab has here to select 22 of them for you, giving you a one-time look at all the great films you might already know and don't know about at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
Director: Michael Haneke
Starring: Jean-Louis Trentinion / Isabelle Huppel / Matthew Kasowitz / Lauberna Abidal
Michael Haneko is a regular at Cannes. In 2009, he won the Palme d'Or for "White Ribbon", and three years later he won the Palme d'Or again for "Love". He is also one of the nine directors in history who have won the Palme d'Or twice. After five years, he came to Cannes again, and his goal was naturally to become the first director in history to win the Palme d'Or three times.
His new film Happy Ending also features Isabelle Huppel, the "Queen of Cannes," about a middle-class family in northern France who is confused about the world beyond their living environment and affected by the refugee crisis. Whether you can witness Haneke's history of Creating Cannes will undoubtedly be a major attraction of this year's film festival.
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Starring: Masami Tsubasa / Kohei Matsuda / Masahiro Takasugi / Yuri Tsunematsu / Hiromi Shibuyagawa / Atsuko Maeda / Shinnosuke Kouishi / Shodai Koide / Kyoko Koizumi
For more than 20 years, Kiyoshi Kurosawa has been a master of Japanese genre films, just last year he appeared at the Toronto Film Festival with his new film "Darkroom Secrets", and this year he brought "The Walking Invaders". "Walking Invaders" is a science fiction film about alien invasion, and judging from the trailer, it will be a strange and obscure film, and this film will appear in a kind of attention unit.
Masami Nagasawa, Ryuhei Matsuda, Hirosumaki Hasegawa, and Masaru Takasugi make up the film's luxurious lineup, and the film's slogan says "Despair is coming, with the gesture of your loved one", not knowing what the final posture will be.
Director: Bong Joon-ho
Starring: Tilda Swindon / Jack Gyllenhaal / Lily Collins / Paul Dano / Kelly Macdonald / Giancaro Esposito / Devon Bostik / Steven Lian / Shirley Henderson / Daniel Hensauer / Bian Hee-bong / Yoon Jae-moon / Choi Woo-sik / Ahn Seok-hyun
We have previously reported on the controversy caused by the nomination of "Jade" to Cannes and the response of director Bong Joon-ho, in fact, from the plot point of view, "Jade" seems to be completely different from the genre that Cannes has always favored, but since 2003's "Memories of Killing", Bong Joon-ho has been highly respected in the international film industry.
He can always raise ordinary horror thrillers to the level of social observation and enlightening thinking, and "Monsters of the Han River" has reached a new height of monster movies, and I don't know if Bong Joon-ho can achieve self-breakthrough in "Yuzi" this time. After all, he is a director who rarely disappoints, and the larger the scale of the film, the more we can look deeply into Bong Joon-ho's inner circle.
Directed by: Arnold Desprichin
Starring: Matthew Amalek / Charlotte Gainsbourg / Marion Cotillard / Louis Garrell / Alba Lorvache / Samir Gaismi / Hippolyte Girardot / Laszlo Schobo
French director Desprichin's new work "The Ghost of Ismail" became the opening film of this year's Cannes Film Festival, and from the plot point of view, this film is also very suitable as the opening film.
The director played by Matthew Amalik (who can be said to be despritchin's royal male protagonist) is filming his new film, and his old love Carlotta, who was supposed to have been dead for 20 years, suddenly appears, and his and his current girlfriend Sylvia's otherwise peaceful lives are completely disrupted. As long as "The Ghost of Ismail" can be as intense and sharp as Desprichin's past works, the head of this Cannes Film Festival will be very successful.
Directed by: Jane Campion / Ariel Kleiman
Starring: Elizabeth Moss / Gwendoran Christie / David Danswick / Alice Englert / Nicole Kidman / Evan Leslie
Presumably, Nicole Kidman's performance in "Big Little Lies" is still impressive, and she is going to star in an American drama again. The second season of "Top of the Enigma Lake", which she starred in, was written by her friend Jane Campion, and the story took place four years after the end of the first season.
Detective Robin Goffin will investigate the body of an unidentified Asian girl who appeared in Sydney's Bondi Beach, and Robin realizes that it may not be just a "Chinese girl" who has died, but she is looking for the darkest side of the city, and she will also face the memories of her daughter that have been haunting her. The series will air on BBC Two, SundanceTV and Hulu in September.
Director: Sophia Coppola
Starring: Colin Farrell / Nicole Kidman / Kerstin Dunst / Ellie Fanning / Andrew Rice / Una Lawrence / Wayne Perret
I am afraid that no director understands women's desires and jealousy better than Sophia Coppola, who has transferred the strong emotions of "The Death of a Virgin" and "Pearlescent" to the American Civil War. Under the Peony Is based on Thomas P. Cullinan's novel of the same name (a 1971 film starring Clint Eastwood).
The film tells the story of a northern soldier who mistakenly enters a girls' boarding school in Virginia, and his arrival breaks the school's original calm and triggers a fight between the school's teachers. Colin Farrell shouts in the trailer: "You jealous bitch! "We can't wait to see them for what they really are.
Directed by: Andrei Sarkinsev
Starring: Alexey Rozin / Maryana Spivak / Matvey Novikov
Andrei Sarkinsev's last work, Leviathan, was a surprise at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the 87th Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and Leviathan is a testament to Sarkinsef's excellent storytelling skills. This time he hopes to continue his reputation with "No Love to Complain About".
The film tells the story of a couple searching for their lost child, and the name of the film refers to the tragic ending of the broken and wounded family. In fact, as early as 2003's "Return", Sarkinseev has shown his ability to control emotions, and in today's era when Russia's international image is becoming more and more complex, it is true that no one can show the emotional world of ordinary Russians better than him.
Director: Noah Baumbach
Starring: Adam Sandler / Emma Thompson / Ben Stiller / Dustin Hoffman / Elizabeth Marvel / Candice Bergen / Daniel Flaherty / Rebecca Miller / Jared Sandler / Lynn Laney / Shindi Zhang / Shakina Jaffi / Mitch Sumner
Along with "Jade" that sparked streaming and theatrical controversy, it was this new work by Baumbach, also produced by Netflix, and after "Francis Ha" and "American Lover", Baumbach seems to have returned to his field of expertise. The film tells the story of a family forced to reunite with a divided family, and Baumbach is very good at dealing with that kind of neurotic group, and it seems that the Meyerowitz family should have the same traits as the characters he has portrayed in the past.
With a lineup like Adam Sandler, Emma Thompson, Ben Stiller and Dustin Hoffman, Baumbach is perfectly capable of creating a great film from start to finish.
Director: Todd Hines
Starring: Amy Hargreaves / Michelle Williams / Julianne Moore / Tom Nonnan / Oaks Figre / Cory Michael Smith / James Urbaniac / Damian Young / Marco Chaka / Morgan Turner / Hayes Wilfford
We've covered the film earlier, adapted from the 2011 best-selling novel of the same name, about the magical intersection between the lives of two deaf children spanning 50 years. Bob Berney, the head of Amazon's distribution and marketing department, recently called the film Hynes's "most ambitious work."
Director: Atsuko Hirayagi
Starring: Josh Hartnett / Minami Gobu / Shinobu Terajima / Hiroshi Seisho
In 2014, director Atsuko Hirayagi competed for the Short Film Awards in Cannes with her short film Lucy, and three years later, she returned to Cannes with her first feature film, Lucy, to appear in International Critics Week. The Cannes Film Festival has established the International Film Critics Week to provide a stage for newcomer directors to speak out to film practitioners around the world.
Adapted from that short film from three years ago, Lucy tells the story of a lonely Tokyo working woman who falls in love with her English teacher and travels to Southern California to find him after he disappears. The film's plot is both peculiar and enticing, and director Atsuko Hirayagi is definitely capable of making a name for herself at the Cannes Film Festival's oldest international film critics week.
Director: Zhao Ting
主演：Brady Jandreau / Tim Jandreau / Lilly Jandreau / Cat Clifford / Terri Dawn Arnold
In 2015, Chinese female director Zhao Ting's work "The Song My Brother Taught Me to Sing" became a dark horse at the Sundance Film Festival, and her filming experience in the Indian settlement also made her interested in the Indian cowboys who grew up in that land. In particular, one of the riders she knew was also a trainer, Brady Jandreau, who suffered a severe brain injury during a race.
In the process of recovering his health, Zhao Ting found that he could no longer seem to recover his cowboy identity. In order to tell this unique American story, Zhao Ting invited Brady herself and his family to participate in the filming of the film, and let them play the fictional version of themselves. This choice is indeed a bit risky, but I believe that the success of "The Song My Brother Taught Me to Sing" will help her complete this poetic film.