Cannes 2017: Robert Pattinson's film Good Time is also in the line-up
Highlights
- Todd Haynes in back in period mode after his huge hit Carol
- Japan's Naomi Kawase returns to the competition after three years
- Swedish film The Square is also in the line-up
who finds he can levitate after being shot on a border fence, these are the 19 movies competing in the main competition
at this week's Cannes film festival:
- Wonderstruck - Todd Haynes in back in period mode after his huge hit
Carol with the first of two Amazon-backed movies to have made the cut. Julianne Moore and Michelle Williams star in the story of two deaf children living parallel lives in the 1920s and 1970s.
- Jupiter's Moon - Hungarian director Kornel Mundruczo, who won the newcomers prize with
White God in 2014, has turned his lens on the European migrant crisis, with this story of a young refugee who discovers amazing powers when he is shot.
- The Beguiled - Sofia Coppola's starry and much-touted American Civil War thriller, a remake of the 1971 movie with Clint Eastwood, features Colin Farrell as a wounded soldier who seduces the women around him, including Nicole Kidman and Kirsten Dunst.
- Redoubtable - The buzz is also good on this cheeky "comedy" about the legendary 'new wave' movie director Jean-Luc Godard from Michel Hazanavicius, the man behind the whimsical multi-Oscar winner
The Artist.
- Okja -Netflix are pushing the boat out for their big-budget
E.T.-like "creature feature"
Okja, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Tilda Swinton, which tells the tale of a girl who risks everything to protect a shy giant animal.
- The Meyerowitz Stories -The streaming giant has also snapped up Noah
While We're Young Baumbach's story about a neurotic New York boho family trying to deal with their difficult artist father. Ben Stiller, Emma Thompson, Candice Bergen and Dustin Hoffman complete a top-notch cast.
- You Were Never Really Here -Scotland's Lynne Ramsay made her Cannes debut with the unforgettable
Ratcatcher. This year she will close the festival with this drama of a war veteran (Joaquin Phoenix) who tries to save a victim of sex-trafficking.
- Loveless -Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev wowed Cannes in 2014 with
Leviathan, a darkly funny meditation on family bonds and religion. Family is again the focus of his new film about a clan with an aversion to affection.
- Good Time -Billed as a grindhouse movie with a brain, New York indie brothers Benny and Josh Safdie have cast
Twilight heartthrob Robert Pattinson as a bank robber struggling to evade the police.
- Happy End -No one has ever won the Palme d'Or three times. But with Isabelle Huppert again by his side fresh from her accolades for
Elle, Austrian-born Michael Haneke could write his place in history with this family drama set in northern France against the backdrop of the migrant crisis.
- The Square -The Swedish director Ruben Ostlund best known for
Snow Therapy was a late entry with his dystopian tale of a place without rules where people can do what they want.
- The Killing of a Sacred Deer -Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell team up for the second time in the competition, this time in the story of a boy trying to bring a surgeon into his dysfunctional family, with disastrous consequences. With Greek maestro Yorgos Lanthimos at the helm, expect the weird.
- Rodin -Gerard Depardieu has already had a go at playing France's greatest sculptor. This time Vincent Lindon picks up the chisel to portray the artist in a biopic that marks the centenary of his death.
- In The Fade -Hamburg's Fatih Akin of Team
Head-On returns to home ground in a promising story of vengeance set among Germany's Turkish community.
- Amant Double (The Double Lover) -No one does erotic thrillers like French director Francois Ozon, who made
Swimming Pool. His latest follows a young woman who falls in love with her therapist before realising he's not who she thought he was.
- 120 Beats Per Minute -Drama by Franco-Moroccan director Robin Campillo set among a group of people working with an AIDS charity in Paris in the 1990s.
- Radiance -Japan's Naomi Kawase returns to the competition three years after her
Still The Water with a film following a photographer whose eyesight is failing.
- The Day After -South Korean director Hong Sang-Soo is bringing two films to Cannes. His new feature
The Day After is in the main competition with a special screening for
Claire's Camera, which features Isabelle Huppert, and was partly shot during last year's festival.
- A Gentle Creature -
A woman tries to learn the truth about her husband held in a remote prison in Russia when a package for him is returned to her in Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa's sombre story.
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