Cannes Festival 2022: all about the films in competition for the Palme d'or with the Dardennes, Cronenberg, James Gray, Claire Denis...

After a 74th summer edition, the Cannes Festival found the month of May, for a 75th fifteen under the sign of filmmakers, stars, revelations, nuggets and other film slaps.It is therefore from May 17 to 28, 2022 that the cinema planet will have the eyes riveted on the Croisette, which will welcome the traditional mounted of the daily steps.Who will succeed Titane de Julia Ducournau, palm-choc 2021?Our editorial staff tells you everything you need to know about the works expected this year on the screens of the Palais des Festivals.

OUVERTURE (HORS COMPÉTITION) - Z (comme Z) de Michel Hazanavicius

Trois ans après Jim Jarmusch, c’est Michel Hazanavicius qui nous offre une ouverture mordante et sanglante. Car les zombies seront au programme de Z (comme Z), relecture du film japonais Ne coupez pas !, où le tournage d’un film d’horreur vire au cauchemar lorsque de vrais morts-vivants s’invitent devant la caméra. Après le muet pour The Artist et Jean-Luc Godard dans Le Redoutable, on imagine déjà le cinéaste jouer avec les codes du cinéma horrifique. Et à défaut de zombies, le premier tapis rouge de cette 75e édition verra passer Romain Duris, Bérénice Bejo, Jean-Pascal Zadi, Grégory Gadebois, Finnegan Oldfield, Luana Bajrami ou encore Agnès Hurstel (révélation de Jeune & Golri) à ses côtés.

Z (comme Z)DeMichel HazanaviciusAvecMatilda Lutz,Bérénice Bejo,Romain Duris,Finnegan Oldfield,Luàna BajramiSortie le17 mai 2022COMPÉTITION - Holy Spider de Ali Abbasi

After having won the Un Certain Regard Prize in 2018 with his fantastic and singular Border, the Swedish filmmaker of Iranian origin Ali Abbasi arrives in competition at the command of Holy Spider, the story of a father who, in the midst of a religious questPersonal, decides to clean the city of Mashhad of prostitution.After having assassinated several women, he sinks into despair, injured by the public's lack of interest in his divine mission ... A punch subject that this time still promises to mark in any way the Cannes spirits.

COMPÉTITION - Les Amandiers de Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

A year after the fracture, presented at Cannes 2021, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi finds the Croisette, not as an actress, but in her role as director.For her seventh film, the almond trees, she plunges into the Paris in the eighties and follows a troop of young actors.All are preparing to pass the entrance exam for the school created by Patrice Chéreau and Pierre Romans at the Théâtre des Amandiers de Nanterre.The feature follows young talents in their discovery of the game, passion and love.In the casting, we find, among others, Louis Garrel, Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Sofiane Bennacer and Suzanne Lindon.

COMPÉTITION - Les Crimes du futur de David Cronenberg

David Cronenberg hadn't walked the festival's red carpet for eight years.The last time was for Maps To The Stars, Hollywood acid portrait, for which Julianne Moore won the female interpretation prize.With the crimes of the future, the director returns to his love for sulphurous science fiction and the transformation of the human body with a prestigious cast: the French Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart and Viggo Mortensen, whom he directs for the fourth time.New Cannes shock approaching?The future will tell us.

COMPÉTITION - Tori et Lokita de Jean-Pierre et Luc Dardenne

A 75th edition for history?With Tori and Lokita, the brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne can become the first filmmakers to win a third palm of gold.Or complement their collection, they only miss the price of the jury to make the big Cannes slam.In eight participations in the competition, they left empty -handed only once (in 2016, for the unknown girl) and therefore present themselves as real challengers with this story which is part of the times since centered onThe friendship between two teenagers from Africa, united in the face of the cruel conditions of their exile.

COMPÉTITION - Des étoiles à minuit de Claire Denis

She had not returned in competition in Cannes since 1988!Claire Denis will present Stars at midnight, her new feature film in English, with Margaret Qualley (heroine of the Maid series on Netflix) and Joe Alwyn (discovered in a day of the life of Billie Lynn).Robert Pattinson had been initially announced in the main male role, but was finally retained by the shooting of The Batman.The intrigue took place in the 80s, in the midst of a Nicaraguan revolution.

COMPÉTITION - Frère et Soeur de Arnaud Desplechin

It is one of the greatest regulars of the Cannes Film Festival that opened the doors of the competition from its first film La Sentinel in 1992 and has since welcomed it, as soon as possible within its various selections.One year after deception (Cannes Première), Arnaud Desplechin contributes again for the Palme d'Or (seventh time in 30 years), at the controls of brother and sister, a drama led by Marion Cotillard and Melvil Poupaud in the titles roles.Twenty years after being blurred and hating themselves more than reason, the two heroes are led to meet up during the death of their parents.Several times named, is never rewarded, is 2022 finally the year of the French filmmaker?The answer at the end of May.

COMPÉTITION - Close de Lukas Dhont

After having won numerous prizes - including that of the Golden Camera in 2018 - for Girl, his first feature film, the Belgian filmmaker Lukas Dhont returns with Close.He stages Léa Drucker and Emilie Dequenne in a learning story on a fusional friendship between two young adolescents.The two heroes, Léo and Rémi, are 13 years old and have always known each other.When a drama comes to separate them, Léo approaches Sophie, Rémi's mother, to try to understand.

COMPÉTITION - Armageddon Time de James Gray

Will the fifth be the right one?Recorded by La Croisette in his previous four participations in the competition, James Gray maintains a complicated love story with the Cannes Film Festival.But he is back at the same time as he goes back down to earth and goes back in time after having crossed the space in Ad Astra.Always focused on a family story, its favorite theme, Armageddon Time will take us in the 80s alongside Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong and Anthony Hopkins.And a teenager who studies in the former Lycée de Donald Trump.

COMPÉTITION - Broker de Hirokazu Kore-Eda

The next film.Broker marks the comeback of the Japanese Hirokazu Kore-Eda in Cannes, from his golden palm for a family affair.And his favorite themes will still be on the program for this story of boxes made available to parents wishing to abandon their babies in all discretion.Carried by Song Kang-Ho (Parasite) and Doona Bae (Cloud Atlas), the result has everything to walk in the footsteps of the very beautiful father, such son (jury prize in 2013).And upset the Croisette.

COMPÉTITION - Nostalgia de Mario Martone

This is a first selection in competition for the director, screenwriter, director of Italian opera theater Mario Martone.This filmmaker who is part of the current of modern Neapolitan cinema with Matteo Garrone and Paolo Sorrentino or Valeria Golino, delivers here a film which returns to her childhood, as the title Nostalgia suggests.In the casting, we find notably Pierfrancesco Favino, which was playing in the film Le traitor by Marco Bellocchio.

COMPÉTITION - RMN de Cristian Mungiu

After his golden palm obtained in 2007 for 4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days, Romanian director Cristian Mungiu, accustomed to the Cannes Festival, returns in official competition with R.M.N.Shot the borders of Romania, this powerful political film, which aims to reflect our current society, evokes through the life of a village the effects of the various political measures that have shaped Europe.With this feature film, Cristian Mungiu offers a reflection on the fate of his country and the Romanian, Hungarian, gypsy communities that meet there.

COMPÉTITION - Triangle of Sadness de Ruben Östlund

Hailed the Palme d'Or in 2017 for The Square, Ruben Östlund will try to win the Supreme Award again with Triangle of Sadness, his first film shot in English in constraints imposed by the pandemic.And who says English language says international casting.Thus Woody Harrelson and Harris Dickinson, freshly landed by The King's Man, are in particular part of this social satire where it is a question of class struggle.The story is that of a couple of wealthy models on the cruise aboard a yacht whose edge captain turns out to be a convinced Marxist.But the boat in question is shipwrecked and the survivors find themselves on a desert island.Causticity, darkness and impression of discomfort should be at the rendezvous of this feature film by the Swedish director.

COMPÉTITION - Decision to leave de Chan-Wook Park

Presented in competition in Cannes, the latest film by Chan-Wook Park dates back to 2016. So six years.An eternity for all these moviegoers whose Korean director marks the spirits with each outing.Like Mademoiselle, Decision to Leave will mix elements of thriller and love trouble, with this policeman attracted by the woman of the victim of a murder on which he investigates ... and of whom she is the main suspect.With a palm to the key, the first for him and the second for Korea?

COMPÉTITION - Showing Up de Kelly Reichardt

Member of the jury in 2019, Kelly Reichardt arrives for the first time in competition with her eighth feature film, showing up.A few months after the release in France of First Cow (with a nice critical and public success), the American filmmaker is therefore already back.She finds her favorite actress, Michelle Williams, whom she had directed in Wendy and Lucy, the last track and certain women.The pitch: before the opening of his exhibition, the daily life of an artist and his relationship to others, the chaos of his life will become his source of inspiration ...

COMPÉTITION - Leila's Brothers de Saeed Roustayi

Saeed Roustayi had the event last year at the Reims Polar festival by winning the Grand Prix and the Critics' Prize with his excellent Thriller The law of Tehran.Here he is for the first time in Cannes, and in competition, with Leila's Brothers, a film whose intrigue is unknown for the moment.But there is no doubt that it should still be a punch work on Iranian society.

COMPÉTITION - Boy From Heaven de Tarik Saleh

After confidential Cairo, Tarik Saleh is back with a religious thriller, entitled Boy from Heaven, who returns to theological debates and the rivalries that animate contemporary Egypt.The Swedish director of Egyptian origin immerses us in the heart of a society which we do not know everything through a merciless war of influence resulting from the death of the Grand Imam on the day of the school year of a prestigious religious university of Cairo.

COMPÉTITION - La Femme de Tchaïkovski de Kirill Serebrennikov

His Petrov fever did not contaminate the Spike Lee jury.But whatever: Kirill Serebrennikov is already back with a film he was shooting while the previous one was presented on the Croisette, taking advantage of the ban on leaving Russia from which he was struck.But the change is now for this fierce opponent of Vladimir Putin, arrived in France recently and who will therefore be present on the steps with his new opus, the woman of Tchaikovski, story of the tumultuous relationship between the composer PiotrTchaikovski and his wife.And there is no doubt that the one who had celebrated art and freedom in Leto will be able to hear his voice on the current situation.

COMPÉTITION - Hi-Han de Jerzy Skolimowski

Polish Jerzy Skolimowski is a big regular in Cannes.After having seven feature films at the festival, the director returns in competition with EO (Hi-Han).A film presented as a modern rereading of the famous classic by Robert Bresson, at random Balthazar.The story follows the journey of a donkey, from birth to a circus in Poland until his death in an Italian slaughterhouse.At the head of this project, we find the famous Italian actress Sophia Loren.

Les Crimes du Futur Bande-annonce VOHORS COMPÉTITION - Top Gun Maverick de Joseph Kosinski

To them the drunkenness.The drunkenness of the ... Croisette!Blocked on the track since 2019, Tom Cruise will come to set the Top Gun Maverick fighter on the red carpet for an event preview in more than one title.36 years later, and in front of the camera of Joseph Kosinski, his director of Oblivion, the actor finds the role which made him take off towards the heights of Hollywood.And it offers a second passage by Cannes, after distant horizons, presented out of competition in 1992. An arrival which he will obviously make memorable and spectacular, with in particular a masterclass event.

HORS COMPÉTITION - Elvis de Baz Luhrmann

King Cannes!To ambience the Croisette, call on Baz Luhrmann.After opening the ball with Moulin Rouge!(2001) then Gatsby the Magnificent (2013), the Australian director is back in the south of France.Always out of competition and with a size of music in its suitcases: Elvis.Here embodied by Austin Butler (Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood) in this biopic focused on his relationship with his manager played by Tom Hanks.The first images show that the filmmaker has lost none of his sense of spectacle, and announce the most rock’n’roll opus of this 2022 edition.

HORS COMPÉTITION - Novembre de Cédric Jimenez

After Bac Nord, already presented out of competition, Cédric Jimenez will present November, with one of the most beautiful French distributions of this festival: Jean Dujardin, Anaïs Demoustier, Sandrine Kiberlain, Jérémie Renier, Lyna Khoudri, Cédric Kahn, Sofian Khams, Sami Outalbali, Stéphane Bak and Annabelle Lengronne.The film presents itself as a dive into the heart of anti-terrorism during the 5 days of hunt that followed the attacks of November 13.The scenario is signed Olivier Demangel (co -author in particular of Atlantic with Mati Diop)."A film in full news, with the trial which is currently being held in Paris," said Thierry Frémaux.

HORS COMPÉTITION - Three Thousand Years of Longing de George Miller

After being president of the jury in 2018, George Miller (Mad Max) returns with, dixit Thierry Frémaux, "a very amazing film, even more from him".Three Thousand Years of Longing presents itself as "a kind of reflection on world history, how it started, and how it will end".A "little film" presented as an "Anti Mad Max", which will bring together Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton.

HORS COMPÉTITION - Mascarade de Nicolas Bedos

Third coming of Nicolas Bedos on the Croisette, with this time, a police comedy: a year after Oss 117 Red Alert in Black Africa, the director will therefore return accompanied by Pierre Niney, but also Isabelle Adjani, François Cluzet and Marine Vacth.Masquerade will be released on November 2.

Top Gun: Maverick Bande-annonce (3) VO CANNES PREMIÈRE - Nos frangins de Rachid Bouchareb

There was natives and the prize given to its actors in 2006. Then outlaw in 2010. With our brothers, Rachid Bouchareb adds a third part to what he describes as a trilogy on a certain history of France, where it will be a question, as in the series expected on Disney+ this year, of police violence which led to the death of the student Malik Ossékine, in December 1986. Reda Kateb, Lyna Khoudri, Raphaël Personnaz and Samir Guesmi are in the castingFrom this film which, unlike the previous two, will be presented Hors-Competition, in the very young CANNES Première category.

CANNES PREMIÈRE - Esterno Notte de Marco Bellocchio

His first feature film is called the fists in the pockets.And it is an understatement to say that it badly describes the recent career of the prolific Marco Bellocchio.Three years after the traitor (competition) and a year after his palm of gold of honor, which he had received by presenting the documentary Marx can wait at Cannes Premier, the Italian filmmaker returns with a series in this same section, forTell the troubled story of your country.And more specifically the abduction of the politician Aldo Moro by the red brigades, and the circumstances which led to his assassination, including his abandonment by the Americans.Worn by Pierfrancesco Favino, Esterno Notte has everything to remind us that the 82 -year -old director has lost none of his passion.

CANNES PREMIÈRE - Dodo de Panos H. Koutras

The Greek director Pános H. Koútras (the attack on the giant moussaka) offers a film in line with his filmography apart and offbeat.Dodo tells how this bird, disappeared 3000 years ago, appeared in Athens in the luxurious residence of a family on the banks of the ruin.Their salvation will come from their daughter's marriage to a rich heir and they have 38 hours before they can finally breathe.But the arrival of this dodo will come to sow the mess and raise madness among those who come into contact with this strange creature.

CANNES PREMIÈRE - Irma Vep de Olivier Assayas (série)

Cannes will again host some episodes of a series, that of Olivier Assayas, derived from his feature film Irma Vep.After Twin Peaks, Top of the Lake, and Carlos, already by Olivier Assayas, place to this Irma Vep series, abyme of director's work.Alicia Vikander plays the main role of this production of HBO, written and produced by Olivier Assayas.

SÉANCES SPÉCIALES - Tout ce que nous respirons de Shaunak Sen

Specializing in documentaries, Indian director Shaunak Sen returns with a new project, everything we breathe.The film follows the fate of two brothers in the polluted city of Delhi.Both devote their lives to protect a victim of this agitated time: a bird known as black Milan.Through his feature film, the filmmaker explores the connection between humans, animals and the environment.

SÉANCES SPÉCIALES - The Natural History of Destruction de Sergei Loznitsa

After the presentation of his film Babi Yar.Context in 2021 during the 74th edition of the festival, the Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa presents the continuation: The Natural History of Destruction.He will return to the phenomenon of mass destruction of civilian populations and German cities by the massive air raids of the Allies during the Second World War.

SÉANCES SPÉCIALES - Jerry Lee Lewis : Trouble in Mind de Ethan Coen

In 2021, Joel Coen announced that his brother no longer wanted to make a cinema.However, four years after the Buster Scruggs ballad, Ethan Coen returns solo with a documentary focused on musician Jerry Lee Lewis, a rock’n’roll and nicknamed The Killer for his electrical energy on stage.The film is titled Jerry Lee Lewis: Disorder in Mind in reference to one of its emblematic titles.

SÉANCES DE MINUIT - Hunt de Jung-Jae Lee

A new Korean film will be presented in midnight session and it is a first feature film, that of Jung-Jae Lee, the interpreter of Seong Gi-Hun in the planetary card Squid Game.In this political thriller located in the 1980s, entitled Hunt, we follow the terrible race against the watch of two senior South Korean security officials commissioned to track down a North Korean spy.This thriller highlights the explosive situation between the two Koreas and an investigation threatening to tip the history of the country.

SÉANCES DE MINUIT -Moonage Daydream de Brett Morgen

After the Rolling Stones and Kurt Cobain, the American director Brett Morgen is interested in another music monument: David Bowie.This figure of pop culture which has always fascinated the world of cinema and which made it well through its creations is the subject of this documentary entitled Moonage Daydream.For this editing film, Brett Morgen had access to personal Bowie archives and hundreds of hours of new sequences in 35mm and 16mm.This feature film is presented as an immersive cinematographic experience built, in part, over thousands of hours of equipment never seen before.

SÉANCES DE MINUIT -Fumer fait tousser de Quentin Dupieux

Benoît Poelvoorde, Grégoire Ludig, David Marsais, Anaïs Demoustier, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Alain Chabat… For his tenth feature film, Quentin Dupieux brings together the avengers of his cinema in smoking makes Toussser and their assistant newcomers such as Gilles Lellouche, Vincent Lacoste,Anthony Sonigo, Doria Tillier and Jean-Pascal Zadi, for a story of superheroes: the "Abac Force", whose green after a fight against a demonic turtle is threatened by an evil emperor.Super powers, the absurd and a gold casting for the director, as well as a presence in official selection (and midnight session) for the one who had previously passed through the week of criticism and the fortnight.

Un Certain Regard

In parallel with the competition, the Un certain Regard program was announced.This section derived from the official selection of the Cannes Film Festival, created by Gilles Jacob in 1978, highlights a avant-garde, daring, modern and innovative cinema by generally offering the first or second projects of filmmakers still unknown or little known.

Among the selection of the Un Certain Regard section this year, we find raw cinema, young and experimental with first seven films among the selected fifteen, as well as eight directors, including two French, Liz Akoka and Romane Gueret.

Many countries are represented in this section this year, such as Australia, Austria, Poland, Iceland and Japan but also Pakistan, which is found for the first time in the official selection of the festival.