Cannes 2019 Cheat Sheet
The 72nd Cannes Film Festival opens May 14th! To preview the festival, we’ve put together one of our patented “cheat sheets” to the feature films screening in Cannes, all in one place. It’s a survey of all the Cannes titles that will be inspiring buzz for the next month and beyond. And of course, don’t miss our daily Cannes edition of The Film Comment Podcast, essential run-downs on each day’s movies in informed discussions, alongside other coverage from our intrepid correspondents.
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Competition
Pedro Almodóvar, Pain and Glory
Cast: Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia
Marco Bellocchio, The Traitor (Il traditore)
Cast: Pierfrancesco Favino, Luigi Lo Cascio
Yinan Diao, The Wild Goose Lake
Cast: Liao Fan, Kwai Lun-Mei
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Bong Joon-ho, Parasite
Cast: Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Young Ahmed (Le jeune Ahmed)
Cast: Idir Ben Addi, Olivier Bonnaud, Myriem Akheddiou
Mati Diop, Atlantiques
Arnaud Desplechin, Oh Mercy! (Roubaix, une lumière)
Cast: Lea Seydoux, Roschdy Zem
Xavier Dolan, Matthias & Maxime
Cast: Harris Dickinson, Xavier Dolan, Anne Dorval
Jessica Hausner, Little Joe
Cast: Emily Beecham, Ben Whishaw
Ken Loach, Sorry We Missed You
Cast: Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Rhys Stone
Ladj Ly, Les Miserables
Cast: Damien Bonnard, Djibril Zonga
Terrence Malick, A Hidden Life (previously known as Radegund)
Cast: Matthias Schoenaerts, Bruno Ganz, Michael Nyqvist
Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles, Nighthawk (Bacurau)
Cast: Udo Kier, Sônia Braga, Jonny Mars
Corneliu Porumboiu, The Whistlers
Cast: Vlad Ivanov, Catrinel Marlon
Ira Sachs, Frankie
Cast: Marisa Tomei, Brendan Gleeson, Isabelle Huppert
Jim Jarmusch, The Dead Don’t Die
Cast: Selena Gomez, Adam Driver, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton
Céline Sciamma, Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Cast: Valeria Golino, Adèle Haenel, Noémie Merlant
Elia Suleiman, It Must Be Heaven
Cast: Ali Suliman, Elia Suleiman
Justine Triet, Sybil
Cast: Virginie Efira, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Gaspart Ulliel
Un Certain Regard
Karim Aïnouz, The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao (A Vida Invisível)
Cast: Fernanda Montenegro, Carol Duarte, Gregório Duvivier
Kantemir Balagov, Beanpole (Dylda)
Zabou Breitman & Eléa Gobé Mévellec, The Swallows of Kabul (Les hirondelles de Kaboul)
Cast: Hiam Abbass, Zita Hanrot, Swann Arlaud
Monia Chokri, A Brother’s Love (La Femme de Mon Frère)
Cast: Evelyne Brochi, Magalie Lepine Blondeau, Sasson Gabai
Bruno Dumont, Joan of Arc (Jeanne)
Cast: Lie Leplat Prudhomme
Oliver Laxe, A Sun That Never Sets (O que Arde)
Cast: Santiago Fillol, Oliver Laxe
Christophe Honoré, Chambre 212
Cast: Carole Bouquet, Chiara Mastroianni, Camille Cottin
Danielle Lessovitz, Port Authority
Cast: Fionn Whitehead, Leyna Bloom, McCaul Lombardi
Mounia Meddour, Papicha
Cast: Marwan Zeghbib, Lyna Khoudri, Yasshin Houicha
Maryam Touzani, Adam
Cast: Lubna Azabal, Douae Belkhaouda, Nisrin Erradi
Albert Serra, Liberté
Cast: Helmut Berger, Iliana Zabeth, Lluís Serrat
Annie Silverstein, Bull
Cast: Yolanda Ross, Rob Morgan, Karla Garbelotto
Midi Z, Zhuo Ren Mi Mi
Cast: Wu Vivian Sung, Kimi Hsia
Zu Feng, Summer of Changsha (Liu Yu Tian)
Cast: Minghao Chen, Lu Huang, Yu Tian
Nariman Aliev, EVGE
Cast: Akhtem Seitablaev
Special Screenings
Pippa Bianco, Share
Cast: Rhianne Barreto, Charlie Plummer, Poorna Jagannathan
Werner Herzog, Family Romance, LLC
Cast: Mahiro Tanimoto, Ishii Yuichi
Abel Ferrara, Tommaso
Cast: Willem Dafoe
Alain Cavalier, To Be Alive and Know It (Être Vivant Et Le Savoir)
Cast: Emmanuèle Bernheim
Waad Al Kateab & Edward Watts, For Sama
Juan Solanas, Que Sea Ley
Directors’ Fortnight
Nicolas Parisier, Alice and the Mayor (Alice et le Maire)
Cast: Fabrice Luchini, Anaïs Demoustier, Nora Hamzawi
Levan Akin, And Then We Danced
Cast: Ana Javakishvili, Giorgi Tsereteli, Tamar Bukhnikashvili
Lav Díaz, The Halt (Ang Hupa)
Cast: Piolo Pascual
Melina Léon, Song Without a Name (Canción sin nombre)
Cast: Pamela Mendoza, Tommy Párraga, Lucio Rojas
Quentin Dupieux, Deerskin (Le Daim)
Cast: Jean Dujardin, Adèle Haenel, Albert Delpy
Kirill Mikhanovsky, Give Me Liberty
Cast: Chris Galust, Lauren “Lolo” Spencer, Max Stoyanov
Takashi Miike, First Love (Hatsukoi)
Johnny Ma, To Live to Sing (Huo zhe chang zhe)
Jukka-Pekka Valkepää, Dogs Don’t Wear Pants (Koirat eivät käytä housuja)
Cast: Pekka Strang, Krista Kosonen, Ester Geislerova
Robert Eggers, The Lighthouse
Cast: Willem Dafoe, Robert Pattinson
Andreas Horwath, Lillian
Cast: Patrycja Planik
Lech Kowalski, Blow It to Bits (On va tout péter)
Bas Devos, Ghost Tropic
Cast: Saadia Bentaïeb, Nora Dari, Maaike Neuville
Juris Kursietis, Oleg
Cast: Valentin Novopolskij, Dawid Ogrodnik, Anna Próchniak
Blaise Harrison, Les Particules
Cast: Thomas Daloz, Salvatore Ferro, Léo Coulifort
Ala Eddine Slim, Tlamess
Erwan Le Duc, Perdrix
Cast: Swann Arlaud, Maud Wyler, Fanny Ardant
Alejo Moguillansky, For The Money (Por el dinero)
Cast: Luciana Acuña, Alejo Moguillansky, Matthieu Perpoint
Alice Furtado, Sick Sick Sick (Sem seu sangue)
Cast: Luiza Kosovski, Juan Paiva, Digão Ribeiro
Shahrbanoo Sadat, Parwareshgah (The Orphanage)
Cast: Qodratollah Qadiri, Sediqa Rasuli, Masihullah Feraji
Rebecca Zlotowski, An Easy Girl (Une fille facile)
Cast: Benoît Magimel, Nuno Lopes, Clotilde Courau
Babak Anvari, Wounds
Cast: Zazie Beetz, Armie Hammer, Dakota Johnson
Benoît Forgeard, Yves
Cast: Doria Tillier, Philippe Katerine, William Lebghill
Bertrand Bonelli, Zombi Child
Cast: Louise Labeque, Wislanda Louimat, Mackenson Bijou
Shorts and Medium Films: Beatrice Gibson’s Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters (Deux soeurs qui ne sont pas soeurs), Gabriel Abrantes’ The Marvelous Misadventures of the Stone Lady (Les Extraordinaires Mésaventures de la jeune fille de pierre), Nao Yoshigai’s Grand Bouquet, An Pham Thien’s Stay Awake, Be Ready (HãY TỉNH THứC Và SẵN SàNG), Sergio Caballero’s Je te tiens, Dahee Jeong’s Movements, Ariane Labed’s Olla, Jerrold Chong and Huang Junxiang’s Piece of Meat, Morgan Simon’s Ghost Pleasure (Plaisir fantôme), and Flatform’s That Which is to Come is Just a Promise.
Special Screenings: Luca Guadagnino’s The Staggering Girl
Critics’ Week
Sofía Quirós Ubeda, Land of Ashes (Ceniza Negra)
Cast: Smashleen Gutiérrez, Humberto Samuels, Hortensia Smith
Amin Sidi-Boumédiène, Abou Leila
Cast: Slimane Benouari, Lyès Salem, Azouz Abdelkader
Jérémy Clapin, I Lost My Body (J’ai Perdu Mon Corps)
Cast: Victoire du Bois, Patrick d’Assumçao, Hakim Faris
César Díaz, Our Mothers (Nuestras Madres)
Cast: Armando Espitia, Emma Dib, Aurelia Caal
Alaa Eddine Aljem, The Unknown Saint (Le Miracle du Saint Inconnu)
Cast: Younes Bouab, Salah Ben Saleh, Bouchaib Semmak
Hlynur Pálmason, A White, White Day (Hvítur, Hvítur Dagur)
Cast: Ingvar E. Sigurdsson, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdottír
Lorcan Finnegan, Vivarium
Cast: Imogen Poots, Jesse Eisenberg, Jonathan Aris
Shorts and Medium Films: Sofia Bost’s Party Day (Dia de festa), Nada Riyadh’s The Trap (Fakh), Andrias Høgenni’s Sans mauvaise intention (Ikki illa meint), Camille Degeye’s Journey Through a Body, Vytautas Katkus’ Community Gardens (Kolektyviniai sodai), Valentina Maurel’s Lucía en el limbo, Johanna Pyykkö’s The Manila Lover, Cecilia de Arce’s Mardi de 8 à 18, Qui Yang’s She Runs, and Adi Voicu’s The Last Trip to the Seaside (Ultimum Drum Spre Mare).