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The Cannes Film Festival has announced a caller information of titles for nan Official Selection of its 79th edition, including James Gray’s Paper Tiger and Judith Godrèche’s A Girl’s Story. (scroll down for afloat list)
They subordinate 60 titles unveiled at nan festival’s accepted property convention successful Paris connected April 9, astatine which nan bulk of nan action was announced.
The confirmation of Paper Tiger n Official Selection ends days of speculation complete whether nan movie was going to Cannes aliases not.
New York-set crime drama Paper Tiger, starring Adam Driver, Miles Teller and Scarlett Johansson, will beryllium Gray’s sixth movie debuting Cannes, pinch nan head past astatine nan show pinch Armageddon Time successful 2022.
Adapted from Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux’s autobiographical novel, A Girl’s Story is nan debut characteristic of Godrèche who rocked nan French cinema world successful 2024 pinch intersexual maltreatment accusations against board Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon.
Valérie Dréville, Tess Barthélémy, Maïwène Barthélémy and Anna Mouglalis lead nan ensemble formed bringing Ernaux’s flashbacks to life arsenic she reminisces during a book-signing travel that triggers memories of nan pivotal summertime of 1958.
Godrèche, who has been a regular impermanent successful Cannes arsenic an actress, deed nan show arsenic a head successful 2023 pinch short film Moi Aussi.
Further additions see Zachary Wigon’s gothic horror-thriller Victorian Psycho astir a governess pinch hidden psychopathic tendencies, which will debut successful Un Certain Regard. Maika Monroe, Jason Isaacs and Thomasin McKenzie, prima successful nan play group successful Victorian England and based connected Virginia Feito’s eponymous novel
The movie is produced by Anton and Traffic successful relation pinch Anonymous Content. Bleecker Street took U.S. authorities past summer.
Greek head Konstantina Kotzamani’s Titanic Ocean, coming-of-age communicative group successful a typical boarding schoolhouse successful Japan that trains teenage girls into master mermaids, has besides made nan cut. Athens-based Homemade Films (To A Land Unknown, Arcadia) lead produces successful coproduction pinch Wunderlust, Defilm, Manny Films, Frida Films, Happinet Phantom Studios.
The Cannes Film Festival runs from May 12 to May 23.
James Gray
UN CERTAIN REGARD
VICTORIAN PSYCHO
Zachary Wigon
A GIRL’S STORY
Judith Godrèche
TITANIC OCEAN
Konstantina Kotzamani
1st film
ULYSSE
Laetitia Masson
Closing movie of Un Certain Regard
CANNES PREMIERE
THE END OF IT
Maria Martinez Bayona
1st film
MARY MAGDALENE
Gessica Généus
AQUI
Tiago Guedes
MARIAGE AU GOÛT D’ORANGE
Christophe Honoré
SI TU PENSES BIEN
Géraldine Nakache
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
SPRING
Rostislav Kirpičenko
1st film
ASHES
Diego Luna
TANGLES
Leah Nelson
1st film
Animation
LE TRIANGLE D’OR
Hélène Rosselet-Ruiz
1st film
GROUNDSWELL
Joshua et Rebecca Tickell
Documentary
FAMILY SCREENING
LUCY LOST
Olivier Clert
