The Spanish Víctor Erice will be present at the Cannes Film Festival with Close Your Eyes, his new film after 30 years away from the cameras. The director of titles such as The South and The Spirit of the Beehive will participate in the Cannes Premieres section along with the latest from Takeshi Kitano, Kubi, and Martin Provost, Bonnard, Pierre et Marthe. Last year As bestas, by Rodrigo Sorogoyen and a great winner of the Goya awards, had its official premiere on the Croisette, where it was received with a standing ovation.
Within the official competition section there will not be, for the moment, a Spanish presence. It should be remembered that in 2022 the name of Albert Serra and his Pacificion were incorporated after the official announcement. Veterans such as Wes Anderson (Asteroid City), Aki Kaurismaki (Fallen Leaves), the Japanese Hirokazu Koreeda, who returns a year later with Monster, the Italian Nani Moretti (The Sun of the Future), the British Ken Loach (The Old Oak), Todd Haynes (May December), Marco Bellocchio with Rapito and Wim Wenders (Perfect Days), who will be honored next week at the BCN Film Fest.
Authors such as Jonathan Glazer with The zone of interest; Kaouther Ben Hania with Four daughters; Jessica Hausner with Club zero, Alice Rohrwacher with La chimera and Justine Triet with Anatomie d'une chute, as announced at a press conference by the festival's artistic director, Thierry Fremaux, accompanied by the president Iris Knobloch.
The Cannes Film Festival will kick off on May 16 with Maïwenn's Jeanne du Barry, which marks the return of Johnny Depp to the big screen after his media trial, and will close the curtain on the 27th. The film, surrounded by controversy over the alleged The attack by the French director on Edwy Plenel, editor-in-chief of Mediapart, will be out of competition.
Last year's Palme d'Or winner, the Swedish Ruben Östlund, will act as president of the jury. Yesterday, the festival also confirmed that the Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar will present his short Strange way of life, a gay romance between two cowboys starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal filmed less than a year ago in Almería on the 'spaghetti western' scene. The piece, the filmmaker's second experience in English after The Human Voice (2020), will be screened in the Official Selection and will be its world premiere in the competition. Along with Pascal and Hawke, there are also actors such as Pedro Casablanc, Manu Ríos, George Steane, José Condessa, Jason Fernández, Sara Sálamo, Ohiana Cueto or Daniela Medina.
Other titles that will be seen this year include the new by Martin Scorsese, Killers of the flower moon, a thriller with Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro distributed by Apple TV that will be in the official section out of competition, and the fifth installment of the adventures of Indiana Jones, with Harrison Ford reprising the role of the iconic archaeologist at the age of 80.
On the other hand, the French director Audrey Diwan, winner of the Golden Lion in 2021 with the drama The Event, will preside over the jury of the 62nd edition of the Critics' Week, a parallel and independent section of the Cannes Film Festival.
