Cannes Festival under the slogan of the Godfathers of Hollywood yesterday and tomorrow

From veterans like Richard Gere and Meryl Streep to rising stars Barry Keoghan and Anya Taylor-Joy: all generations of stars will meet at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, which opens on May 14 with strong competition.

The world of cinema comes together until May 25, in an edition that once again features a strong presence of the Hollywood industry on the Croisette, two months before the Olympic Games in Paris.

After Scorsese and Harrison Ford last year, one of the most anticipated events is the competition screening of Francis Ford Coppola’s film “Megalopolis”, 45 years after the shock of “Apocalypse Now”, his second Palme d’Or.

The feature film starring Adam Driver, the first trailer for which was unveiled Saturday, promises to be a work of science fiction with maddening ambition, a will movie in the making over the course of 40 years that swallows up a portion of The Godfather’s fortune. Cinema.

Coppola will meet other representatives of the greatest hours of American cinema: George Lucas, creator of “Star Wars”, who will receive an honorary Palme d’Or, as well as actress Meryl Streep.

Also expected to be there are Hollywood’s young guard: Barry Keoghan and Jacob Elordi, both of whom appeared in “Saltburn,” or Margaret Qualley.
On the big show front, George Miller will be blowing the Mad Max engines out of contention with Furiosa, the prequel to the post-apocalyptic film series.

Of the 100 films submitted in all sections, 22 films are competing for the Palme d’Or, which Frenchwoman Justine Triet won last year for “Anatomy of a Fall.”

The jury will be chaired by American Greta Gerwig (40 years old), the first director whose revenues exceeded one billion dollars with “Barbie.”
Alongside him, Omar Sy or Native American actress Lily Gladstone unveiled a year ago at Cannes the film Killers of the Flower Moon directed by Martin Scorsese.

In competition, there are regular players like Jacques Audiard, with his unexpected Spanish-language musical comedy set in the world of drug dealers, or David Cronenberg. Emma Stone reconnects with her favorite director, Yorgos Lanthimos, after winning an Oscar for Poor Creatures.

As is often the case, “Croisette” will resonate in international news, especially in competition, with a fictional film about a young Donald Trump (“The Apprentice”) and an adaptation of Emmanuel Carrere’s “Limonov,” signed by the Russian director in exile. Kirill Serebrennikov.
Let us not forget the questions about the arrival of Iranian Muhammad Rasoulof to run for the Palme, but the mullahs’ regime regularly prevents him from traveling.

The film industry, gathered in Cannes, will continue to question the impact of artificial intelligence and new technologies on creativity, six months after the historic strike in Hollywood, and as the festival opens with a virtual reality competition.
But also parity (only 20% of the output is in the official selection, according to the 50/50 score), and sexual and gender-based violence.

Seven years after the #MeToo movement began, the topic is still on everyone’s minds, in the United States where one of Harvey Weinstein’s convictions has just been overturned, as well as in France, between the trial of Gérard Depardieu in October and the relaunch of the free speech movement. By Judith Goodrich.

An invitation to the Cannes Film Festival from the actress, who has become the spearhead of the movement in France since she accused two figures of auteur cinema, Benoît Jaco and Jacques Doyon, of rape, to present the short film she has just realized, would be a powerful symbol.
The Cannes Festival, which brings together tens of thousands of festival-goers and international stars, will be a security rehearsal for the authorities, two months before the start of the Olympic Games.

The celebrations were scheduled to begin on Tuesday evening with actress Camille Cottin, before the release of the opening film, “The Second Act,” directed by Quentin Dupeux with Léa Seydoux, which is released in theaters at the same time.