Variety’s Elsa Keslassy has become one of the more trust-worthy Cannes insiders out there. Her piece today, weighing around a dozen titles that are destined to premiere at the festival aligns pretty well with the intel I’ve been gathering these last few months.
As we had reported earlier, Keslassy confirms that Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Claire Denis’s films won’t be ready. Also, Marion Cotillard and Penelope Cruz are among the names that have been discussed so far for Jury President. All we know for certain is that Fremaux is looking for a female Prez.
Good stuff all around, but mostly things we already knew about, with a few key titles missing in her piece. Instead, I’ll just post The 25 films that are most likely headed for official competition this year (based on my own intel):
Baby, Box, 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
R.M.N — Cristian Mungiu
The Son — Florian Zeller
École de l’air — Robin Campillo
Monica — Kantemir Balagov
Passengers — Ira Sachs
Close — Lukas Dhont
Frere et Soeur — Arnaud Desplechin
Eureka — Lisandro Alonso
Misanthrope — Damian Szifron
Holy Spider — Ali Abassi
Saint-Omer — Alice Diop
L'Envol— Pietro Marcello
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