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Baz Luhrmann brings his signature truckload of glitzy glamor and candy showbiz to the Elvis Presley story, starring Austin Butler as the king and Tom Hanks as his manipulative manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
The Natural History of Destruction
Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa returns to Cannes for a special screening of his new documentary, based on WG Sebald’s book about the horrors of air raids during World War II – a subject that resonates particularly strongly today.
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crimes of the future
Cannes regular David Cronenberg returns with his own sprawling screenplay about a future world where humans must adapt to transhumanism. Evolution is accelerating, bodies are sprouting new organs, and human identities are changing.
Turn up
Michelle Williams is filmmaker Kelly Reichardt’s regular lead and she returns as Lizzie, a sculptor whose life is turned upside down by a new show. Other stars include André 3000, Judd Hirsch and Amanda Plummer.
stars at noon
European cinema icon Claire Denis brings a film with touches of Peter Weir’s The Year of Living Dangerously and her own key theme of colonial anguish: Margaret Qualley and Joe Alwyn star as journalists and businessman in 1980s Nicaragua.
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estate agents
Japanese author Hirokazu Kore-eda has directed Korean star Song Kang-ho in his first Korean-language film, an intense emotional drama based on a real-life case of the “baby boxes” where people can leave unwanted newborns.
A nice morning
Transgressive passion is the basis of Mia Hansen-Løve’s film, starring Léa Seydoux as Sandra, a single mother with a young daughter who tries to find care for her elderly father and embarks on an intense affair with an old friend.
men
A shiver of uneasiness for the League of Gentlemen in a spooky English country village where all the men (played by Rory Kinnear) are oddly alike: Jessie Buckley stars in this chilling film directed by Alex Garland.
Leah Mondesir Simmons and Eva-Arianna Baxter as the young Gibbons sisters in Silent Twins. Photo: Courtesy of Jakub Kijowski/Focus Featuressilent twins
The Polish director Agnieszka Smoczyńska takes on the story of the British “silent twins”. Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance play identical twins June and Jennifer Gibbons – who spoke to no one but each other, wrote “Outsider Art” novels and were eventually sent to Broadmoor for arson and theft.
Paris memories
Virginie Efira plays a woman involved in a terrorist attack in a Parisian bistro in Alice Winocour’s drama. A few months later, wracked with PTSD and amnesia, and wracked with fragmented memories, she makes a determined attempt to reconstruct her past.