banel et Adama by Ramata-Toulaye Sy is the first of the titles in competition today. The young Banel and Adama live in a remote village in the North of Senegal. Despite the many different characters, Adama and Banel fall in love and decide to leave their families to live together. But when Adama refuses to become the head of the villageas his birthright should, their love will come under attack.
May December by Todd Haynes with Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore
May December by Todd Haynes with Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore, is one of the most anticipated titles. It’s been twenty years since their romance ended up in the meat grinder of the tabloids.
A married couple gives in to the pressure when an actress enters their lives to research their past for a film.
Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore.
Killers of the Flower Moon by Martin Scorsese
Out of competition we’ll see Killers of the Flower Moon is the western directed by Martin Scorsese that the director based, together with screenwriter Eric Roth, on the 2017 best-seller Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann.
A series of murders shocks the Osage Nation in 1920s Oklahoma, the time when oil was discovered on tribal land. The film stars Leonardo Dicapriowho also executive produces, along with Jesse Plemons, Lily Gladstone, Brendan Fraser, John Lithgow and Robert DeNiro.
The railwayman by Pietro Germi
For Cannes Classics it is the day of The railwayman by Pietro Germia film that was presented at Cannes in 1956. For the Semaine de la critique, section dedicated to first works, worth considering The ravissements by Iris Kaltenbäck with Hafsia Herzi as Lydia, a dedicated midwife.
While trying to mourn a breakup, her best friend Salomé reveals that she is pregnant and asks her to monitor her pregnancy. One day, she meets Milo – a one night stand – as she carries her friend’s baby in her arms and lets him know that the baby is hers.
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