The Cannes Film Festival has added a fresh round of titles to its 78th edition, including Lynne Ramsay’s Die, My Love and Saeed Roustaee’s Woman And Child which will play in the main competition. (scroll down for full list)
Ramsay’s dark comedy thriller Die, My Love transposes Ariana Harwicz’s novel about a woman living in the French countryside who develops severe postpartum depression, to Montana and stars Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson.
Roustaee’s Woman and Child, is the first film from the Iranian director since his 2022 Cannes Palme d’Or contender Leila’s Brothers.
The contemporary family drama of revenge and forgiveness stars Parinaz Izadyar (Law of Tehran) as a widowed nurse struggling with her rebellious son. Tensions reach a peak during the betrothal ceremony with her new boyfriend, but when a tragic accident occurs, she finds herself confronting feelings of betrayal as she seeks justice.
There are four additions to Un Certain Regard including Kristen Stewart’s directorial feature debut The Chronology of Water, adapted from Lidia Yuknavitch’s best-selling 2011 memoir of the same name.
A tale of turning trauma into art, the personal story stars Imogen Poots as protagonist Lidia on a journey from her earliest childhood memories in the Pacific Northwest, through explosive misfires and mistakes, children that almost-were, toxic relationships, art heroes, wins and losses.
The new Un Certain Regard titles also include Portuguese director Pedro Pinho’s timely three-and-a-half hour drama I Only Rest In The Storm exploring ideas of colonialism and white saviorism.
The Cannes Premiere section has been bolstered by a trio of films including Filipino director Lav Diaz’s Magellan starring Gael García Bernal as 16th Century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, and Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason’s upcoming feature The Love That Remains, his latest work after Oscar-shortlisted work Godland.
The latter title is described as “tenderly capturing a year in the life of a family as the parents navigate their separation.”
In Midnight Screenings, Ethan Coen will debut detective comedy Honey Don’t! starring Margaret Qualley, Aubrey Plaza, Chris Evans, Charlie Day, and Billy Eichner.
The section has also added French director Cardona’s No One Will Know, a huit clos in which the clients and bar staff of a shabby cafe outside Paris enter into a murderous pact when an elderly regular comes in and wins big in the lottery. It is his second feature after Magnetic Beats, which played in Directors’ Fortnight in 2021.
The Special Screening additions include animated features Arco, featuring Natalie Portman as a member of the English voice cast as well as a producer, and Little Amélie. Both will debut as special screenings.
Directed by Ugo Bienvenu, Arco revolves around a boy who uses rainbows to travel through time but then gets stuck in the wrong era. Portman and Sophie Mas are producing under their Paris and New York banner MountainA with Félix de Givry at Paris-based Remembers.
Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han’s Little Amélie is adapted from Belgian writer Amélie Nothomb’s bestseller The Character of Rain inspired by her childhood in Japan.
Further additions to the Special Screenings line-up include actress Josephine Japy’s feature directorial debut The Wonderers starring Mélanie Laurent. Set against the backdrop of a summer on the French riviera, the drama revolves around the Roussier family and its fragile equilibrium shaped by the uncertain diagnosis of its youngest daughter, 13-year-old Bertille, who suffers from a severe disability.
The new additions join 53 titles, which were unveiled on April 10 at the festival’s traditional line-up press conference in Paris.
The 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival unfolds from May 13 to May 24.
The Full List Of Additions:
COMPETITION
Die, My Love
Dir. Lynne Ramsay
Woman and Child
Dir. Saeed Roustaee
UN CERTAIN REGARD
Love Me Tender
Dir. Anna Cazenave Cambet
Un Poeta
Dir. Simón Mesa Soto
I Only Rest In The Storm
Dir. Pedro Pinho
The Chronology of Water
Kristen Stewart
1st film
CANNES PREMIERE
Renai Saiban
Kōji Fukada
The Love That Remains
Hlynur Pálmason
Magellan
Dir. Lav Diaz
MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
No One Will Know (Le Roi Soleil)
Dir. Vincent Maël Cardona
Honey Don’t!
Dir. Ethan Coen
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Little Amélie
Dir Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han
1st film
Mama
Dir. Or Sinai
1st film
Arco
Dir. Ugo Bienvenu
1st film
The Wonderers (Qui Brille Du Combat)
Joséphine Japy
1st film
TRIBUTE TO PIERRE RICHARD
L’homme Qui A Vu L’Ours Qui A Vu l’homme
Dir. Pierre Richard