Oliver Stone, Lou Ye Films Among New Titles Added To Cannes Selection

April 22, 20243 Mins Read

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The Cannes Film Festival has added 13 new titles to the selection for its 77th edition, including new films by Oliver Stone, Lou Ye and Arnaud Desplechin as Special Screenings.

Stone has made it in with his documentary Lula about former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The work follows the politician’s imprisonment in 2018 and 2019 and then his return to power.

Cannes habitué Despechin returns with Filmlovers! revisits the character of Paul Dédalus, who previously appeared in My Sex Life… or How I Got into an Argument (1996) and My Golden Days (2016). This new and final chapter in the series will revolve around a movie theatre from the 1960s to the present day.

Three more titles have been added to competition including Michel Hazanavicius’ first animated feature The Most Precious of Cargoes about the fate of a baby boy who is thrown from an Auschwitz-bound train by his French-Jewish father as it crosses a Polish forest and found by a childless woodcutter’s wife.

The touching drama is adapted from the eponymous novel by Jean-Claude Grumberg, who co-wrote the screenplay with Hazanavicius.

Other new Palme d’Or contenders include dissident Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof The Seed Of The Sacred Fig. Rasoulof was to have served on the Un Certain Regard last year but was barred from leaving Iran.

His films Manuscripts Don’t Burn (2013) and A Man Of Integrity (2017) world premiered in Un Certain Regard in 2013 and 2017, winning the Fipresci prize and best film prize respectively.

Romanian director Emanuel Pârvu will also make his Competition debut with third feature Three Miles to the End of the World about a gay teenager trapped in village where he ostracized by everyone around him.

In other additions, Alexandre De La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte’s budget French costume-adventure drama The Count of Monte Cristo, starring Pierre Niney as the titular hero will play Out of Competition.

The new additions are:

UN CERTAIN REGARD

When The Light Breaks
Rúnar Rúnarsson

Niki
Céline Sallette 1st film

Flow
Gints Zilbalodis

CANNES PREMIERE

Vivre, Mourir, Renaitre
Gaël Morel

Maria
Jessica Palud

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

Filmlovers! (Spectateurs)
Arnaud Desplechin

Nasty
Tudor Giurgiu

Lula
Oliver Stone