[The Daily] Cannes 2018 Lineup

The Cannes Film Festival has announced the lineup for its seventy-first edition, running from May 8 through 19. Artistic director Thierry Frémaux has declared that this year’s Official Selection represents “a great renewal,” a new generation of filmmakers reflecting the state of cinema in 2018. I’ll be adding notes, links, and so on throughout the day.

Frémaux says that more titles will be added in the coming days. And yesterday, the festival revealed the lineups for the Short Films Competition and Cinéfondation Selection.

COMPETITION

Stéphane Brizé’s At War. From mk2: “Despite heavy financial sacrifices on the part of their employees and record profits that year, the management of Perrin Industries decides to shut down a factory. The 1100 employees, led by their spokesman Laurent Amédéo, decide to fight this brutal decision, ready to do everything to save their jobs.” With Vincent Lindon.

Asghar Farhadi’s Everybody Knows. When the festival announced that the film would be opening this year’s edition, it noted that it was “shot entirely in Spanish on the Iberian Peninsula” and “charts the story of Laura, who lives with her husband and children in Buenos Aires. When they return together to her native village in Spain for a family celebration, an unexpected event changes the course of their lives. The family, its ties and the moral choices imposed on them lie, as in every one of Farhadi’s scripts, at the heart of the plot.”

Matteo Garrone’s Dogman. “Dubbed an ‘urban Western,’ the pic is inspired by a homicide committed by a coked-out dog groomer during the late 1980s in the gangland outside Rome,” writes Variety’s Nick Vivarelli. “The case, involving hours of torture in a dog cage, is considered among the most gruesome in Italian postwar history.” Marcello Fonte plays a “small and gentle dog groomer named Marcello” who “finds himself involved in a dangerous “relationship of intimidation” with a former violent boxer who bullies the entire neighborhood. In an effort to reaffirm his dignity, Marcello will exact an unexpected act of vengeance. ‘It might seem like a revenge film, but I think that Dogman is also a film about the desperate need for dignity in a world where the law of the strongest prevails and violence seems to be the only way out,’ Garrone said in a statement.”

Jean-Luc Godard’s Le livre d’image. From Wildbunch: “Nothing but silence. Nothing but a revolutionary song. A story in five chapters like the five fingers of a hand.” Frémaux's referred to it as an essay film. And you can see the first few images at Casa Azul Films.

Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Asako I & II.

Christophe Honoré’s Sorry Angel.

Eva Husson’s Girls of the Sun.

Jia Zhangke’s Ash Is Purest White.

Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Shoplifters.

Nadine Labaki’s Capernaum.

Lee Chang-dong’s Burning.

Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman.

David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake. Image at the top.

Jafar Panahi’s Three Faces. Frémaux says that the festival is making a special request to the government of Iran to allow Panahi, who has been under house arrest, to travel to Cannes and return home again.

Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War.

Alice Rohrwacher’s Lazzaro Felice. Shot in Super 16.

A. B. Shawky’s Yomeddine.

Kirill Serebrennikov’s Summer. About rock ’n’ roll in the Brezhnev era. In black and white.

OUT OF COMPETITION

Ron Howard’s Solo: A Star Wars Story.

Gilles Lellouche’s Le Grand Bain.

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

Aditya Assarat, Wisit Sasanatieng, Chulayarnon Sriphol, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s 10 Years in Thailand.

Nicolas Champeaux and Gilles Porte’s The State Against Mandela and the Others.

Carlo Diegues’s O Grande Circo Místico.

Romain Goupil’s La Traversée.

Michel Toesca’s To the Four Winds.

Wang Bing’s Dead Souls.

Wim Wenders’s Pope Francis: A Man of His Word.

UN CERTAIN REGARD

Ali Abbasi’s Border.

Meyem Benm’Barek’s Sofia.

Andréa Bescond and Eric Métayer’s Little Tickles.

Bi Gan’s Long Day’s Journey into Night.

Nandita Das’s Manto.

Antoine Desrosières’s Sextape.

Lucas Dhont’s Girl.

Valeria Golino’s Euphoria.

Wanuri Kahiu’s Friend.

Gaya Jiji’s My Favorite Fabric.

Etienne Kallos’s The Harvesters.

Ulrich Köhler’s In My Room.

Luis Ortega’s El Angel.

Adilkhan Yerzhanov’s The Gentle Indifference of the World.

MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS

Joe Penna’s Arctic.

Soon Jong-bing’s The Spy Gone North.

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