Variety’s Elsa Keslassy has an interesting piece on Cannes 2021. Familiar titles almost-guaranteed to make it into competition are mentioned, but there are also peculiarly unfamiliar films that could make their way to the croisette this July. Keslassy believes they are …
“Official Competition” (Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat)“Petrov’s Flu” (Kirill Serebrennikov)
“Triangle of Sadness” (Ruben Östlund)
“Paris, 13th District” (Jacques Audiard)
“A Hero” (Asghar Farhadi)
“Titane” (Julia Ducournau)
“Bergman Island” (Mia Hansen-Love)
“De Son Vivant” (Emmanuelle Bercot)
“The Worst Person in the World” (Joachim Trier)
“On A Clear Half Morning” (Bruno Dumont)
“Tout s’est bien passé” (Francois Ozon)
That means you can add these to the almost-certain big names we’ve already gathered would be a part of the festival:
”The French Dispatch” (Wes Anderson)
”Annette” (Leos Carax)
”Ahed’s Knee” (Nadav Lapid)
”Memoria” (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
”Benedetta” (Paul Verhoeven)
”Tromperie” (Arnaud Desplechin)
”Tres Piani” (Nanni Moretti)
“Where is Anne Frank?” (Ari Folman)
That’s 19 films. Usually Cannes has anywhere between 19-21 titles in the official competition.
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