It is an announcement that will be followed with attention by the gratin of the 7th art. While the 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival will be held from May 16 to 27, General Delegate Thierry Frémaux will lift the veil on the selection of elected officials from 11 a.m. on Thursday April 13, in a cinema on the Champs-Élysées. In total, nearly 40,000 enthusiasts, journalists and celebrities from around the world have been accredited to attend the International Film Festival. Here is the information already known about this new edition before the announcement of the selection.
In addition to the selection of nominees, the jury for the 2023 edition will also be revealed on Thursday, April 13. If the Swedish director Ruben Östlund, who won his second Palme d'or last year with Sans Filtre, after being rewarded in 2017 for The Square, is already known as president, different names circulate to accompany him and the suspense will therefore be lifted at the end of the morning.
"I am happy, proud and humbled to be entrusted with the honor of presiding over the Cannes Film Festival Jury this year. No other place in the world arouses such a desire for cinema when the curtain rises on a film in competition", rejoiced Ruben Östlund on the announcement of his appointment as president.
After Tom Cruise in 2022 for Top Gun: Maverick, another blockbuster veteran, Harrison Ford, will be present on the Croisette this year, whip in hand, for the 5th installment of the saga, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. With his river film Killers of the Flower Moon, director Martin Scorsese will also be climbing the steps alongside his favorite actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert de Niro.
Finally, after a year marked by a high-profile legal soap opera that pitted him against his former wife Amber Heard, against a backdrop of accusations of domestic violence and then mutual accusations of defamation, Johnny Depp will also be present at the Cannes Film Festival. after playing Louis XV in Jeanne du Barry. This film directed by Maïwenn will open the ball and will be screened at the opening of the Festival.
The famous Spanish director Pedro Almodovar will present his short film Strange Way of Life during this 76th edition. Filmed in southern Spain, this western stars Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke starring opposite each other. Along with Asteroid City, Wes Anderson and his three-star cast of Tilda Swinton, Adrien Brody and Tom Hanks are also expected. Coup de chance, the 50th film and the very first in French by American filmmaker Woody Allen, could also be in the game. On the French side, Bertrand Bonello with The Beast, Catherine Breillat's new film, Last Summer, Anatomy of a Fall by Justine Triet or The Empire directed by Bruno Dumont are expected.
An emblematic broadcaster of the Cannes Film Festival for many years, Canal handed over to France Télévisions last year. France 2 will therefore once again broadcast the opening and closing ceremonies of the Cannes Film Festival. Both events will be offered on public service channels, live and exclusively.
