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The Italian director Nanni Moretti with ‘Tre Piani’, the French Françoiz Ozon with ‘Tout s’est bien passé’ and the Iranian Asghar Farhadi with ‘A Hero’ will compete for the Golden palm at the next edition of the Cannes Film Festival, which will be held from July 6 to 17, as announced by its organizers on Thursday.
Moretti He fights for his second Palme d’Or after the one obtained in 2001 with ‘The Son’s Room’, while Farhadi won in 2016 the award for best screenplay for ‘The client’ and Ozone He is another regular at Cannes, where in 2019 he presented ‘L’amant double’ and last year he was selected with ‘Verano del 85’.
He will also aspire to succeed the South Korean ‘Parasitos’ (‘Parasite’), de Bong Joon Ho, which won the highest award in 2019, the American-Colombian film ‘Memoria’, by the Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul and with Tilda Swinton, the Colombian Juan Pablo Urrego and the Spanish-Mexican Daniel Giménez-Cacho among its protagonists.
Sean Penn, with “Flag Day,” in which his two sons -Dylan and Hooper- star; Paul Verhoeven, with ‘Benedetta’; Jacques Audiard with ‘Les Olympiades’; Kirill Serebrennikov, with ‘Petrov’s flu’; ‘Par un demi clair matin’, by Bruno Dumont; ‘Red Rocket’, by Sean Baker, or ‘Bergman Island’, by Mia Hansen-Love, are others selected in this edition, after last year’s was canceled due to the pandemic.
A score of films will go to The Croisette and they will be in the hands of the American director Spike Lee, president of the jury of the official competition.
Other big names in cinema will arrive with their new works in different sections. A) Yes, Todd Haynes will present ‘The Velvet Underground’ out of competition.
And in the new section dedicated to established filmmakers Cannes Premieres, estarán Oliver Stone con ‘JFK revisited: through the looking glass’; Hong Sang-Soo, con ‘In front of your face’, o Andrea Arnold con ‘Cow’.
But also the actress Charlotte Gainsbourg, with his debut feature ‘Jane par Charlotte’.
The special sessions will screen ‘O marinheriro das montagnas’, by the Brazilian Karim Ainouz, or a film titled ‘The years of the everlasting storm’, co-directed by seven filmmakers, including the Chilean Dominga Sotomayor, the Iranian Jafar Panahi or the american Laura Poitras.
Of the almost 2,000 films received, According to the general delegate of the event, Thierry Frémaux, at a press conference, the confinement and the health crisis were present in some. Reflections on the couple or identity issues were also part of those who tried their luck.
‘The selection is from this extraordinary artistic democracy that is cinema’added the representative of the festival, happy that the omens about the death of cinema and screens have not been fulfilled.
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