New films from Wes Anderson, Ari Aster, and Richard Linklater will compete for the Palme d’Or at the 78th Cannes Film Festival, organisers announced.
Thierry Frémaux, Cannes’ artistic director, announced the selections in a news conference in Paris with festival president Iris Knobloch.
Entries include Aster’s Eddington, a pandemic-set Western starring Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal and Emma Stone; Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme, starring Benicio Del Toro as a European profiteer, with Scarlett Johannson and Tom Hanks co-starring; and Linklater’s appropriately French-language Nouvelle Vague, about Jean-Luc Godard and the French New Wave.
Other Cannes regulars coming back include two-time Palme winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. The Belgian filmmaking brothers’ latest is titled Young Mothers. Joachim Trier, whose The Worst Person in the World was a highlight of the 2021 Cannes, is back in competition with Sentimental Value, which likewise stars Renate Reinsve.