Film Festival in Cannes: “Couldn’t believe it” – German shock in Cannes | EUROtoday

It is just her second characteristic movie as a director – and he ought to convey her a breakthrough. The Berliner Mascha Schilinski was the one German to make it within the competitors of the Cannes Film Festival (thirteenth to twenty fourth May). The director born in 1984 competes with filmmakers akin to Richard Linklater or Wes Anderson for the principle prize Golden palm.

The glamorous movie pageant Cannes is known for his star contingent. For the 78th version, Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, Jodie Foster, Jennifer Lawrence, Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Joaquin Phoenix, Bono from U2, Scarlett Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch and Emma Stone.

Germans in Cannes

“Looking into the sun” is a era portrait of a number of girls who reside at totally different occasions on a farm in Altmark. 21 movies have thus far been the race for the golden palm. It is uncommon {that a} comparatively unknown, younger German director runs in the principle competitors. Most lately, Wim Wenders (2023) and Maren Ade (2016) have been represented as Germans in prestigious competitors.

“I kept looking at this email with the famous palm logo and wondered whether” Official Selection-in Competition “really” meant the principle competitors, “mentioned Schilinski of the dpa. «I simply could not consider it. The pleasure was and is big. »

Far from the competitors, different German filmmakers are represented in Cannes – akin to Fatih Akin, whose new Film “Amrum” with Diane Kruger runs premiere within the Cannes aspect part. Christian Petzold presents within the Quinzaine aspect sequence of the Cinéast «Miroirs No. 3 »with Paula Beer.

August Diehl is the principle actor in “The disappearance of the Josef Mengele”, the brand new movie of the Russian filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikow, who lives in German exile.

Emma Stone, Joaquin Phoenix and different stars in competitors

The two-time Oscar winner Stone is alongside Oscar winner PhoenixTo see Pedro Pascal and Austin Butler within the “Eddington” competitors. Ari Aster’s movie takes place in a metropolis in New Mexico after a homicide case.

U.S. director Wes Anderson additionally has possibilities of the Golden Palm with “The Phoenician Casting”. The work, which is occupied with Benicio del Toro, Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch and quite a few different stars, was largely shot in Studio Babelsberg. It’s concerning the historical past of a household and a household enterprise.

Josh O’Connor and Paul Mescal play a few lovers

In the competitors movie “The History of Sound”, the presently very sought-after Hollywood stars Josh O’Connor and Paul Mescal (“Gladiator II”) may be seen. They embody a few lovers in Oliver Hermanus’ historic drama. O’Connor, who grew to become well-known as Prince Charles within the sequence “The Crown”, can nonetheless be seen in a second competitors movie: “The Mastermind” by Kelly Reichardt is claimed to commerce from an artwork stalk.

Tom Cruise is a welcome visitor in Cannes. This time he introduces «Mission: Impossible-The Final Reckoning», the eighth a part of the cult sequence. Another Hollywood icon, Jodie Foster, may be seen within the movie “Vie Privée” by Rebecca Zlotowski. In it she performs a psychiatrist who determines a dying.

A former couple additionally comes

The literature adaptation “Die ‘My Love” by Lynne Ramsay sounds delicate. It’s a few girl who struggles together with her function as a mom and companion – prominently occupied with Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson. The former “Twilight” star Pattinson might meet his former companion and colleague Kristen Stewart in Cannes.

The 35-year-old presents her directorial debut within the UN Certain Regard part: the “The Chronology of Water” literary movie. Two different appearing greats current their debut movies outdoors of the competitors as administrators: Harris Dickinson (from the Cannes winner “Triangle of Sadness”) tells of a homeless man in “Undin”. Scarlett Johansson is dedicated to “Eleanor the Great” of a senior girl who desires to reorganize her life.

The German Cannes hope Schilinski appears to be like ahead to this yr’s movie choice. «I believe this system guarantees to turn into an thrilling mixture of established and newer cinema votes. I’m trying ahead to each single movie and hope to have the ability to see as many movies as doable in Cannes. »

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