Cannes 75 Intel & Updated Predictions

The 75th Cannes Film Festival is just two weeks away and I’m hearing Thierry Fremaux is very late in completing his selection of films. In fact, not many have been selected.

What I do know is that Ostlund, Park and Kore-eda are definitely confirmed for competition. Other than that, we have films that are 90% possibilities, some much less so.

I’m being told there is one Italian film and one American film definitely locked in for competition. The person I spoke to doesn’t want to say more. The Italian one could either be Luca Guadagnino’s “Bones and All” or Pietro Marcello’s “L’Envoi.”

I have taken out of my predictions Russian filmmaker Kantemir Balagov’s “Monica” because I was told not a single frame of that film has been shot yet. Balagov is currently stuck in Georgia working on an American VISA. Godspeed.

I have also reveived a few emails about whether or not George Miller’s “Three Thousand Years of Longing” is part of the competition. The answer is I have no idea.

Predictions: Official Competition (03.16.22)

Broker — Hirokazu Kore-eda
Triangle of Sadness — Ruben Ostlund
Decision to Leave — Park Chan-wook
Bardo - Alejandro Gonalez Inarittu
Armageddon Time — James Gray
Crimes of the Future — David Cronenberg
Showing Up — Kelly Reichardt
Tori et Lokita — Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
L'Envoi— Pietro Marcello
R.M.N — Cristian Mungiu
The Son — Florian Zeller
École de l’air — Robin Campillo
Passengers — Ira Sachs
The Whale — Darren Aronofsky
Music — Angela Schanelec
Close — Lukas Dhont
Frere et Soeur — Arnaud Desplechin
Eureka — Lisandro Alonso
Misanthrope — Damian Szifron
Holy Spider — Ali Abassi
Saint-Omer — Alice Diop
The Eternal Daughter — Joanna Hogg
Le Lyceen — Christophe Honoré
Other People’s Children — Rebecca Zlotowski
Three Thousand Years of Longing — George Miller
Don Juan — Serge Bozon

MYSTERIOUS QUESTION MARKS

Untitled — Jia Zhangke Project
Untitled — Jean-Luc Godard
The Zone of Interest — Jonathan Glazer
The Perfumed Hill — Abderrahmane Sissako
Revoir Paris — Alice Winocour
Nope — Jordan Peele

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