Official Poster for 71st Cannes Film Festival + Final Predictions

The last few weeks have, quite honestly, been memorably chaotic as the lead-up to the announcement of the official selection for the 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival nears. The fest will take place May 8th to the 19th. So much drama about Netflix, bouts between Festival head Thierry Fremaux and some directors (the latest rumor being that Mike Leigh was asked to snip the running time of his latest film "Peterloo.")

It will all be put to rest tomorrow, but in the meantime we have the festival's official poster, which continues the trend of 60's film homages from the past. This year they have decided to use Jean-Luc Godard's “

Pierrot le Fou,” and its actors Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina sharing a kiss while in two cars. I am not a fan of the film, but it nevertheless has a major importance to the French and European cinema in general.

As for my predictions, after weeks of scurrying around message boards and reading the trades, this is what seems to be the general consensus, although I wouldn't be surprised if some not listed here just show up tomorrow. I'm very open to surprises.

• Asghar Farhadi’s Everybody Knows

• Lars von Trier‘s The House That Jack Built

• Laszlo Nemes‘ Sunset

• Nuri Bilge Ceylan‘s The Wild Pear Tree

• Brian De Palma’s  Domino

• Jafar Panahi's Three Faces

• Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War

• Mia Hansen-Løve's Maya

• Carlos Vermut’s Quien Te Cantara

• Matteo Garrone's Dogman

• Lee Chang-Dong's Burning

• Brillante Mendoza's Amo

• Jia Zhangke’s Ash Is Purest White

• Alice Rohrwacher's Lazarro Felice

• Ciro Guerra Birds of Passage

• Vanessa Filho's Gueule d’Ange

• Bi Gan's Long Day's Journey Into Night

• Paolo Sorrentino’s Loro

• Mike Leigh‘s Peterloo

• Spike Lee's BlackKklansman