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Claire Denis and David Cro­nen­berg head­line the 2022 Cannes Film Festival

14 Apr 2022

Words by David Jenkins

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This year’s stacked line-up also includes new work Kel­ly Reichardt, Ruben Ostlünd and Park Chan-wook – but no David Lynch.

It’s that time of year again folks, Oscar sea­son is just a faint twin­kle in the rearview mir­ror (thank God!) and world cin­e­ma gets its time to shine. With Tik­Tok as a major fes­ti­val part­ner, and Net­flix still on the naughty step when it comes to the com­pe­ti­tion, Cannes head hon­cho Thier­ry Fré­maux has announced anoth­er spicy line-up which com­bines a num­ber of old guard reli­ables, new tal­ent and the odd have-a-go hero look­ing to cap­i­talise on past successes.

We already knew of some of the mega titles that will pre­mière on the Croisette: Baz Lurhmann’s Elvis, star­ring Austin But­ler in the lead and a pros­thet­ic-clad Tom Han­ks as Col Tom Park­er, will like­ly be the glitzi­est offer­ing this year; while Tom Cruise him­self will be doing a red car­pet fly­by to present his long delayed sequel, Top Gun: Mav­er­ick by his old col­lab­o­ra­tor, Joseph Kosin­s­ki. With­out fur­ther ado, here is the full line-up of the main fes­ti­val, with the Director’s Fort­night and Crit­ics’ Week to come later.

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Com­pe­ti­tion
Holy Spi­der, Ali Abbasi
Les Amandiers, Vale­ria Bruni Tedeschi
Crimes of the Future, David Cro­nen­berg
Tori and Loki­ta, Jean-pierre and Luc Dar­d­enne
Stars at Noon, Claire Denis
Frère et Sœur, Arnaud Desplechin
Close, Lukas Dhont
Armaged­don Time, James Gray
Bro­ker, Hirokazu Kore-eda
Nos­tal­gia, Mario Mar­tone
Rmn, Cris­t­ian Mungiu
Deci­sion to Leave, Park Chan-wook
Show­ing Up, Kel­ly Reichardt
Leila’s Broth­ers, Saeed Rous­tayi
Boy from Heav­en, Tarik Saleh
Tchaïkovski’s Wife, Kir­ill Sere­bren­nikov
Eo, Jerzy Skolimows­ki
Tri­an­gle of Sad­ness, Ruben Östlund

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Un Cer­tain Regard
Les Pires, Lise Ako­ka and Romane Gueret
Burn­ing Days, Emin Alper
Metronom, Alexan­dru Belc
All the Peo­ple I’ll Nev­er Be, Davy Chou
Sick of Myself, Kristof­fer Bor­gli
Domin­go and the Midst, Ariel Escalante Meza
Plan 75, Hayakawa Chie
Beast, Riley Keough and Gina Gam­mell
Cor­sage, Marie Kreutzer
But­ter­fly Vision, Mak­sim Nakonech­nyi
God­land, Hlynur Pál­ma­son
Rodeo, Lola Quiv­o­ron
Joy­land, Saim Sadiq
The Stranger, Thomas M Wright
The Silent Twins, Agniesz­ka Smocynska

Cannes Pre­mière
Nos Fran­gins, Rachid Bouchareb
Night­fall, Mar­co Bel­loc­chio
Dodo, Panos H Koutras
Irma Vep, Olivi­er Assayas

Out of Com­pe­ti­tion
Elvis, Baz Lurhmann
Top Gun: Mav­er­ick, Joseph Kosin­s­ki
Three Thou­sand Years of Long­ing, George Miller
Novem­bre, Cédric Jimenez
Mas­ca­rade, Nico­las Bedos

Spe­cial Screen­ings
All that Breathes, Shau­nak Sen
Moon­age Day­dream, Brett Morgen

Mid­nights
Hunt, Lee Jung-jae
Jer­ry Lee Lewis: Trou­ble in Mind, Ethan Coen
The Nat­ur­al His­to­ry of Destruc­tion, Sergei Loznitsa

Open­ing Film
Z, Michael Hazanavicius

The 2022 Cannes Film Fes­ti­val runs from 17 – 28 May. For more info vis­it fes​ti​val​-cannes​.com

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