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Announcing the line-up for the festival that
runs from May 8-19, artistic director Thierry Fremaux said he
regretted the absence of Netflix, which entered two major movies
last year but has said it cannot abide by rules that would force
it to release them in French theaters, delaying its ability to
stream them.
"It's a pity," said Fremaux. "Everybody wished to see the film."
Netflix had planned to present "The Other Side of the Wind", a
movie Welles shot in the 1970s but never finished editing, as
well as "They'll Love Me When I'm Dead", a documentary about the
filmmaker, who died in 1985.
The competition will open with "Todos Los Saben" ("Everybody
Knows"), a film starring Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem made in
Spain by double-Oscar winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi.
Among the close to twenty contenders in the main competition is
Spike Lee's "BlacKkKlansman", about an African-American police
officer who infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan.
At the age of 87, Cannes darling Godard returns with "Le Livre
d'Image" ("The Image Book") and Oscar-winning Polish director
Pawel Pawlikowski will present "Cold War".
Cannes is the biggest gathering of the global movie industry,
but also a glamorous occasion where photographers as well as
stars must comply with a strict red-carpet dress code, and
Fremaux confirmed that the festival wanted to stop the
undignified modern habit of selfie-taking.
Anyone trying to pull a fast one with their mobile phones on the
red-carpet risks being ejected.
(Writing by Brian Love; Editing by Luke Baker and Robin Pomeroy)
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