In this week’s episode of The Screen Podcast, the team reacts to this year’s Cannes Official Selection, which was unveiled by Thierry Fremaux and Iris Knobloch in Paris earlier today.
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Breaking down the list of titles with host Wendy Mitchell are Screen’s editor-in-chief Matt Mueller and senior international critic Wendy Ide.
The trio picks out the films they are excited about, plus some of the trends from this year’s list.
“My metric for an exciting Cannes line-up is the Cannes queue punch-up metric,” says Ide. “So how many films are going to generate a punch-up when people are so desperate to get in there, the tension boils over. And I think we’ve definitely got quite a few. I would say that Paweł Pawlikowski’s Fatherland and Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord have punch-up potential.”
“For me, what’s interesting are the rising talents,” adds Mitchell. “Lukas Dhont gets his second Competition slot [with Coward]. I think that this is going to be a interesting one for him because Thierry described it as ‘pure cinema’. And that’s quite an accolade coming from Thierry, isn’t it?”
The podcast also delves into the titles that may have missed out, and what still could be added by Fremaux. Plus the Screen trio predict some potential future awards contenders from the selection, and debate what happened to the Brits.
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