Strong showing for US independents with Lee Daniels, Jeff Nichols, Andrew Dominik and John Hillcoat in competition alongside Cannes stalwarts like Haneke, Cronenberg, Reygadas, Loach.
The Cannes Film Festival unveiled its Official Selection on Thursday morning in Paris.
As previously announced, Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom will open the festival on May 16 and the late Claude Miller’s last feature Thérèse Desqueyroux will close the festival on May 27.
Out Of Competition titles will include Madagascar 3 and Bertolucci’s Lo E Te.
The parallel selections of Critics’ Week and Directors’ Fortnight will be unveiled on next Monday and Tuesday respectively.
CANNES COMPETITION 2012
Moonrise Kingdom, dir. Wes Anderson (opening film)
Rust & Bone, dir. Jacques Audiard
Holy Motors, dir. Leos Carax
Cosmopolis, dir. David Cronenberg
Paperboy, dir. Lee Daniels
Killing Them Softly, dir. Andrew Dominik
Reality, dir. Matteo Garrone
Amour, dir. Michael Haneke
Lawless, dir. John Hillcoat
In Another Country, dir. Hong Sang Soo
The Taste of Money, dir. Im Sang-Soo
Like Someone in Love, dir. Abbas Kiarostami
The Angels’ Share, dir. Ken Loach
Beyond the Hills, dir. Cristian Mungiu
After the Battle, dir.Yousry Nasrallah
Mud, dir. Jeff Nichols
Vous n’avez encore rien vu, dir. Alan Resnais
Post Tenebras Lux, dir. Carlos Reygadas
On the Road, dir. Walter Salles
Paradise: Love Ulrich Seidl
The Hunt, dir. Thomas Vinterberg
In The Fog (Im Nebel), dir Sergei Loznitsa
OUT OF COMPETITION
Lo E Te, dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
Madagascar 3, dir. Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath
Hemmingway and Gellhorn, dir. Philip Kaufman
MIDNIGHT
Dario Argento’s Dracula, dir. Dario Argento
Ai To Makoto, dir. Takeshi Miike
65TH ANNIVERSARY
Une Journée Particulière, dir. Gilles Jacob, Samuel Faure
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