Cannes Film Festival: a Hollywood monument back in competition

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Cannes Film Festival a Hollywood monument back in competition

The second day of competition takes place this Thursday, May 16 in Cannes. On the program: an event film, Hollywood stars and a regular winner of the Croisette.

The essential

  • The Cannes Film Festival begins its second day of competition this Thursday, May 16, 2024with several highlights on the program.

  • It’s an event that awaits the audience at the Cannes Film Festival this Thursday. Francis Ford Coppola (already two Palmes d’Or) is coming to present his latest feature film in competition, Megalopolis. In the cast, we find Adam Driver, Nathalie Emmanuel, Giancarlo Esposito, Shia Labeouf and Aubrey Plaza

  • Also on the programthe competition screening of Bird by Andrea Arnold, a British filmmaker who has won several awards at Cannes in the past, and the out-of-competition presentation of the film City of Darkness by Hong Kong director Soi Cheang. Below, follow the Cannes Film Festival live.

Live

10:08 – What is the program for this second day of the Cannes Film Festival?

In addition to the projection of Megalopolis at the Grand Théâtre Lumière at 7 p.m., several other events will punctuate this second day in Cannes. In the afternoon, festival-goers will be able to discover the film by Andrea Arnold, Bird, also in competition, but also several films in parallel competitions. The day will end with the screening of City of Darkness by Hong Kong director Soi Cheang from 10:30 p.m.

09:31 – Francis Ford Coppola in the running to win his third Palme d’Or

This evening, festival-goers will be able to discover Megalopolis by Francis Ford Coppola. This science fiction story, which presents itself as a modern and futuristic adaptation of a Roman fable, is in competition to win the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Remember that the filmmaker, now 85 years old, has already won the prestigious prize twice in his career: the first for Secret Conversation in 1974, the second for Apocalypse Now in 1979, tied with The drum by Volker Schlöndorff.

09:08 – A highly anticipated film presented at Cannes this Wednesday

It’s a highly anticipated event that will shake up the Croisette this Thursday, May 16. Festival-goers will finally be able to discover Megalopolis, a film already presented as a testament to director Francis Ford Coppola. The father of the trilogy Godfather, Apocalypse Now, Secret conversation Or Dracula is in competition for the Palme d’Or for this feature film.

The jury for the next Cannes Film Festival is made up of five women and four men, all of whom have won multiple awards during their careers. Greta Gerwig, director of barbie And The Daughters of Doctor Marchwas chosen as president of the 2024 jury. She will be helped, in her choice of the prize list and the Palme d’or, by the French actor Omar Sy (Untouchables), French actress Eva Green (Casino Royale,), Turkish screenwriter Ebru Ceylan (Winter Sleep), Native American actress Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon), the Lebanese director and screenwriter Nadine Labaki (Capernaum), the Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona (The circle of snow), the Italian actor Pierfrancesco Favino (The traitor) and finally the Japanese director Kore-Eda Hirokazu (A family matter).

Opening film

The Second Act of Quentin Dupieux (out of competition)

Feature films in competition

In some perspective

Out of competition

Midnight sessions

Cannes premiere

Special sessions

Since 1962, Critics’ Week has been one of the main parallel selections of the Cannes Film Festival. It aims to bring out talents and generally focuses on the first or second films of new directors.

In competition

In special sessions

The Filmmakers’ Fortnight, formerly the Directors’ Fortnight, is also a parallel selection of the Cannes Film Festival. Organized since 1968 by the Society of Film Directors (SRF), it also aims to go beyond the festival framework with little-known directors from different backgrounds.

The short films:

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