Photos from Cannes 2023: Jennifer Lawrence, Jude Law, Marion Cotillard and Guillaume Canet on the stairs

Julianne Moore, Todd Haynes and Natalie Portman

Let’s start with Saturday May 22nd’s other major film, the May-December competition presentation. After Velvet Goldmine, Carol and Le Musée des Merveilles, Todd Haynes recalls meeting the woman whose affair with a young man had sparked the tabloid press 20 years earlier and the actor who is to portray her on screen in a film about her life. The opportunity to reunite Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman for the first time on screen.

Marion Cotillard

She was Guillaume Canet’s Cleopatra earlier in the year in Asterix and Obelix: Middle Empire. Before the director became an actor again in Séance de Minuit sur Acid (see next photo), Marion Cotillard Little Blue Girl was accompanied by Mona Achache. Presented in a special screening, the film sees the actress portray the filmmaker’s mother from thousands of photographs, letters and notes unearthed after her disappearance.

Guillaume Canet

Just Philippot (La Nuée) is in front of the camera Guillaume Canet Returns as a “simple” cast in Acid, featured in Séance de Minuit. A genre film set against the backdrop of ecological and climatic disaster as acid clouds and devastating rain descend on France, which the actor claims as “Elevated, powerful, relevant and important”. It is scheduled to hit theaters on September 20.

Michelle Yoo

Won the Oscar for Best Actress for The Phenomenon Everything Everywhere at Once Michelle Yoo is in Cannes to receive the 2023 Women in Motion Award. Awarded by Kering and the Cannes Film Festival, this award is welcomed “The creativity and uniqueness of women who, through their work in art and culture, are helping to transform the way we see the world.”

Anatomy of a Fall

He was one of the directors praised by Virgin Broadcasting during their 2023 Cesar appearance. Coming to Cannes in 2019 with Sybil , Justin Triet returns to the Autumn Anatomy competition as both a test film and a couple dissection. A young boy attends his mother’s trial after the death of her husband. Swan Arlod and Sandra Huler are the two main actors of this drama.

Jennifer Lawrence

If skin is a no-go for the movie planet, Jennifer Lawrence is one of the rather rare stars on the Croisette. The actor only came to the stage in 2013 and 2104 to support the promotion of the Hunger Games franchise. However, this year he is not as an actor, he is in the south of France…

Bread and roses

Now producing with Justine Ciarrocchi, Jennifer Lawrence It was accompanied by the documentary Bread and Roses in Cannes. Signed by Sahra Mann (already the author of A Thousand Girls Like Me), the film paints a real-time portrait of three Afghan women in Kabul as their lives are turned upside down in 2021 under the control of the Taliban. The title refers to American political politics. James Oppenheim’s tagline and poem, but also evokes Ken Loach’s classic, Bread & Roses. The Brit, who will return to the Competition at the end of the festival with The Old Oak, is Sahra Mann’s favorite filmmaker.

Queen’s game

a few weeks ago Jude Law Slipped into a Captain Hook costume for the live-action Peter Pan. In Firebrand – Le Jeu de la Reine, he portrays Henry VIII in front of the lens of Karim Ainouz. The Brazilian filmmaker tells the story of Catherine Parr, the ogre’s last wife and one of the few who survived him. It represents him Alicia Vikander.

Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander

They’re a smart but solid movie couple: last night on the steps of Cannes, Alivia Vikander Posing with his companion Michael Fassbender. Or, for gamers, a snapshot combining Assassin’s Creed and Lara Croft. Off the screen since 2019’s X-Men Dark Phoenix, the Irish comedian will make a big return to Netflix in November in The Killer, fronted by a certain David Fincher…

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