Ali Abbasi’s Donald Trump Drama The Apprentice, Anora, the latest from The Florida Project and Red Rocket director Sean Baker, and Andrea Arnold’s Bird, starring Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski, are among the highlights of this year’s Cannes competition.
Abbasi, the Iranian-born, Swedish-based director, whose Holy Spider was a sensation of the 2022 Cannes festival, returns with his story of how a young Donald Trump and the notorious lawyer Roy Cohn built up Trump’s real estate business in New York in the 1970s and 80s. Sebastian Stan stars as Trump, with Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm) as wife Ivanka.
Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things follow-up Kinds Of Kindness will also premiere in Cannes competition. The film, featuring the Oscar-winning Poor Things star Emma Stone will be high on every Cannes attendee’s must-see list. The Greek auteur has again put together a jaw-dropping supporting cast, including Poor Things alums Willem Dafoe and Margaret Qualley alongside Jesse Plemons, Hunter Schafer, Joe Alwyn, Hong Chao and Mamoudou Athie.
Canadian directing legend David Cronenberg, who presented Crimes of the Future in Cannes in 2022, is back in competition with The Shrouds, a horror thriller starring Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, and Guy Pearce.
Another Cannes veteran, Chinese director Jia Zhang-Ke (Ash is the Purest White, A Touch of Sin) returns with the competition entry Caught By The Tides. As does exiled Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov (Tchaikovsky’s Wife, Petrov’s Flu, Leto) who will premiere his Ben Whishaw-starrer Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie in Cannes, marking the fourth competition entry.
In the nepo baby category, Christophe Honoré’s Marcello Mio scored a competition slot. The drama stars Chiara Mastroianni playing alongside her mother Catherine Deneuve and off the ghost of her father, Italian acting legend Marcello Mastroianni.
Paolo Sorrentino’s Parthenope, the…
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