Kidman, Huppert to grace film festival
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NICOLE Kidman and Isabelle Huppert will top the bill at the Cannes Film Festival next month as the world’s flagship movie showcase celebrates its 70th anniversary.
The Australian megastar features in Sofia Coppola’s Civil War thriller “The Beguiled,” while France’s Huppert headlines in Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke’s “Happy End,” a drama set against the backdrop of Europe’s migrant crisis.
Ben Stiller, Julianne Moore and French star Marion Cotillard will also do star turns at the May 17-28 film festival on the French Riviera, organizers told reporters at a Paris news conference yesterday.
Other movies vying for the prestigious Palme d’Or include Todd Haynes’ “Wonderstruck,” one of two Amazon-backed films in the lineup.
“Wonderstruck,” starring Moore and Michelle Williams, tells the parallel stories of two deaf American children in the 1920s and the 1970s.
“Redoubtable” by the director of the Oscar-crowned silent movie “The Artist,” Michel Hazanavicius, focuses on the love affair between New Wave guru Jean-Luc Godard and actress Anne Wiazemsky.
Opening the extravaganza, out of competition, will be “Ismael’s Ghosts” by French director Arnaud Desplechin, about a filmmaker disturbed by the return of his former love.
Two Netflix-backed features made the cut in a first for Cannes.
“Okja,” a creature feature by South Korea's Bong Joon-ho, known for his black humor, stars Tilda Swinton as a corporate scientist whose company tries to kidnap a fantastical beast called Okja from a young girl.
Jake Gyllenhaal, playing a zoologist, makes his Cannes debut with the film.
The other contender from Netflix, which is making ever deeper inroads into Hollywood alongside rival Amazon, is “The Meyerowitz Stories” by independent US filmmaker Noah Baumbach. The family drama stars Adam Sandler, Stiller, Emma Thompson and Dustin Hoffman.
Amazon also proposes “You Were Never Really Here” by Scottish director Lynne Ramsay starring Joaquin Phoenix as a war veteran who tries to save women from the sex-trafficking trade. Variety reported last year that the online retailer bought the rights to the film for around US$3.5 million.
Pedro Almodovar, Spain’s most celebrated living movie director, will lead the jury at the festival.
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