Never Too Early to Spitball Cannes ‘22

This will probably be the one and only time this year that I spitball predictions for next May’s Cannes Film festival because, well, it’s very hard to think this far ahead right now. Regardless, a lot of productions affected by the pandemic during these last 15 months are set to finally be ready for Cannes next year. This is still a very tentative list of potential Cannes ’22 competition titles and, obviously, subject to change:

Triangle of Sadness — Ruben Ostlund
Untitled Spain Movie — Wes Anderson
Decision to Leave — Chan Park-Wook
Crimes of the Future — David Cronenberg
On Barren Weeds – Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Monica — Kantemir Balagov
The Stars at Noon — Claire Denis
The Zone of Interest — Jonathan Glazer
Untitled — Jia Zhangke Project
Tori et Lokita — Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
The Way of the Wind — Terrence Malick
Our Apprenticeship — Ryūsuke Hamaguchi
What Happens —Andrei Zvyagintsev
The Perfumed Hill — Abderrahmane Sissako
Armageddon Time — James Gray
Baby, Box, Broker — Hirokazu Kore-eda
Untitled — Jean-Luc Godard

One can certainly dream of Steven Spielberg’s “The Fablemans,” and Martin Scorsese‘s “Killers of the Flower Moon” making the trek to the Croisette next year but both filmmakers seem to prefer skipping festivals. One can hope they would make an exception.