There will be Pedro Almodóvar with “Strange Way of Life”, Johnny Depp, for the first time in public after the hateful trial won against his ex-wife Amber Heard, with “Jeanne du Barry”, Martin Scorsese with “Killers of the Flower Moon ” and Harrison Ford with the latest episode of “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny”. Cannes 2023 will be crowded with stars as in its most glorious years. There is a month left for the review to begin and rumors about possible participants are intertwined. Will there be excommunicated directors Roman Polansky and Woody Allen? Polansky most likely not, the film isn’t ready, but Allen, in his first rehearsal in French, maybe. Will Wes Anderson be there with Margot Robbie, Tom Hanks and Scarlett Johansson? The series with Lily-Rose Depp and the music star The Weekend? And on the Italian front, Nanni Moretti with “Il Sol dell’Avvenire”, Marco Bellocchio with “The Conversion”, Matteo Garrone with “Io Capitano” and Alice Rohrwacher with “La Chimera”?
We will know on Thursday when the list of films admitted to the 76th edition of the festival which will take place on the Croisette from 16 to 27 May will be announced. Thierry Frèmaux, director general of the festival, explained to the trade magazine Variety that in the past two years they have had to manage an exorbitant amount of films that had been on hold during the pandemic, but this edition will return to its usual numbers. That Netflix films or other streaming platforms are not accepted in the competition because Cannes is a festival that defends cinemas, that there won’t be a female jury president despite the invitation being made to many, but the chosen one, Ruben Ostlund, two-time Palme d’Or winner with ‘The Square’ and ‘Triangle of Sadness’ will do a great job.
Certainly for now there is the participation of Martin Scorsese, eagerly awaited because he hasn’t been to Cannes since 1986, when he presented “After Hours”. “Killers of the Flower Moon”, sees him again alongside DiCaprio and De Niro. Other performers Brendan Fraser, Jesse Plemons and Lily Gladstone. Based on the best-selling novel by David Grann, with a screenplay by Scorsese and Eric Roth, the film is set in 1920s Oklahoma and depicts a string of brutal FBI assassinations of Native Americans from the Osage Nation. in what will be remembered as “the reign of terror”, the period in which oil was discovered on their land. It will hit screens on October 6
Chosen the opening film: “Jeanne du Barry” with Johnny Depp in the role of King Louis XV. Directed by Maiwenn, who also plays the famous 18th-century courtesan who finds her way into the king’s affections, the film will be screened on Tuesday 16 May at the Grand Théâtre Lumière and will be released in French theaters the same day. The film is the first European funded by the Red Sea Film Foundation, a Saudi Arabian foundation founded in 2019, which has so far only produced African and Arab titles.
The great provocateur takes part: Pedro Almodóvar will arrive accompanied by Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal, to present the short film “Strange way of life”, a title that alludes to a famous fado by Amalia Rodrigues who says that there is no existence stranger than the one lived turning away from desires. With music by Alberto Iglesias, the film is a western that tells the story of two men who met as young men and meet again 25 years later.
And the great awaited: Harrison Ford in his fifth and final interpretation of the adventurer archaeologist in “Indiana Jones and the dial of destiny”. He will arrive on May 18 on the Croisette with Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Antonio Banderas, John Rhys-Davies, Toby Jones, Boyd Holbrook, Ethann Isidore and Mads Mikkelsen. Also shot in Sicily, between Segesta and Cefalu’, the film is produced by Spielberg and Lucas as always, but this time Spielberg has not directed, preferring to devote himself to “The Fabelmans”.
The trailer shows a special effects rejuvenated Harrison Ford in a flashback set in 1944, eight years after the events of “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” The rest of the story takes place in the late 1960s: Indiana Jones lives and teaches in New York until old friend Sallah (John Rhys-Davies) tries to convince him to get back into the game: “Those days are over,” he replies. the professor. “Perhaps. And maybe not,” replies the friend. Presented out of competition it will be released in the United States on May 30th. Cannes is preparing a tribute to the career of Harrison Ford.