We already know that Cannes is not happening this year, but that hasn’t stopped its director Thierry Frémaux from giving us a few hints as to what films could have been part of its 73rd edition.
Frémaux was a guest on the French show La Grande Table Culture this past Monday and namechecked Wes Anderson's film “The French Dispatch,” which he says was locked and loaded for official competition. Frémaux described Anderson’s film as a "unique, minimalist, and extraordinary work. The film is self-referential, a tribute to the French press of the 1930s and to French Culture.”
Other films mentioned by Frémaux include Paul Verhoeven’s “Benedetta,” and Nanni Moretti’s “Tre Piani,” both of which, according to him, could very well appear at the 2021 edition of the festival. [via Les Inrockuptibles]
As we wait impatiently for the Cannes-stamped and approved list of 50 films, due to be announced in early June, these were most probably going to be the hottest titles of this now canceled edition of the fest:
Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s “Memoria”
Paul Verhoeven’s “Benedetta”
Leos Carax’s “Annette”
Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch”
Nanni Moretti “Tre Piani”
Francois Ozon’s “Summer of 85”
Pete Docter’s “Soul”
Mia Hansen-Løve’s “Bergman Island”