TheCannesFilm Festival has just revealed (another) adazzling lineupfor its 77th edition.
Discoveries will include first-time filmmaker Agathe Riedinger, who will play in Competition.
Coppola is one of the rare two-time Palme dOr winners.
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Why so many English-language movies in Competition?
Thats more than half the Competition.
By our initial count this is a record, but were still digging in on that.
The festival has yet to confirm.
This is easily the most in the past decade.
In 2018 there were only two English-language films in Competition.
Last year also saw a spike with seven English-language movies in Competition.
That in itself is a rare number.
Could there be underlying reasons for why this year and last year have skewed so English-language?
Are more big-name arthouse directors looking to make movies in English today?
Cannes certainly also knows that attracting big-name English-language projects guarantees the biggest media spotlight possible.
She beamed that this years festival will be of equal caliber.
Having major studio movies and Hollywood stars certainly helps that cause.
It is less than last year.
Indian journalists should be happy today.
There are three movies in the lineup either by Indian or Indian heritage filmmakers.
There are three Chinese filmmakers in the lineup and another from Hong Kong.
Cannes generally does well when it comes to North African filmmakers and this year is no different.
Those who didnt hear their names called…
Among them new projects from Audrey Diwan, Francois Ozon, Arnaud Desplechin, Michel Hazanavicius and Rachel Tsangari.
Also the big-budgetCount of Monte Cristomovie starring Pierre Niney.
We were also been expecting something Studio Ghibli related.
As noted above, also not hearing their name this morning were the streamers.
This year, no one is thinking about that and its interesting to consider why.
Melanie Goodfellow contributed to this report.
