Cannes Film Festival 2023: The Excitement & Why There Is Need For A Big Bladder

The Cannes Film Festival kicks up today. Here’s our preview to look out for, including A-listers, exciting premieres, and why you’ll need a big bladder.

The 76th Cannes picture Festival kicks off today, and the jury, led by Ruben Stlund, will have the difficult duty of presenting the top prize to a picture among a very strong field.

This year’s Official Selection is heavy on big names, including former double Palme d’Or winner Ken Loach (The Wind That Shakes The Barley and I, Daniel Blake), Wim Wenders, Nanni Moretti, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, and Hirokazu Kore-eda – who won the top prize at Cannes for Paris, Texas, The Son’s Room, Winter Sleep, and Shoplifters, respectively.

The old guard will compete against Wes Anderson’s new feature Asteroid City and Todd Haynes’ May December, as well as a record number of female directors.

 

Seven of the 21 titles in the Competition are directed by women, including Alice Rohrwacher, Catherine Corsini, Jessica Hausner, and Catherine Breillat. This is an all-time high for Cannes, which has been chastised for its lack of woman representation in recent years, particularly in comparison to the Berlin Film Festival’s near gender parity in its most recent Competition selection. Still, progress is being made, although slowly.

Glamour and glitz
There will be a paparazzi frenzy for A-listers, with a couple of blockbusters bringing in the red carpet goods.

 

Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert DeNiro will both be there for Martin Scorsese’s new film Killers of the Flower Moon; Harrison Ford, Mads Mikkelsen, and Phoebe Waller-Bridge will presumably be making the trip to France for the final installment in the Indiana Jones saga, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny; Johnny Depp will grace the Croisette because he stars in the opening film, Mawenn’s Jeanne Du

Then there’s Asteroid City, which features Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson, Margot Robbie, Edward Norton, Maya Hawke, and many more A-listers.

Not to mention that Michael Douglas will be in attendance to receive his honorary Palme d’Or.

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