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).
