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Organizers announced Woody Allen’s "Café Society", featuring
Stewart, will open the 69th edition of the festival which will
run from May 11 to 22. The American actress also stars in French
director Olivier Assayas' "Personal Shopper", a film that will
be vying for the Palme d'Or.
"She’s in some ways the Queen of Cannes," festival director
Thierry Fremaux said during a ceremony in a Champs Elysees
cinema as he unveiled the list of movies that will be screened.
Fremaux and his team watched 1,869 films before shortlisting 49,
20 of them included in the main competition, whose jury will be
presided by Mad Max director George Miller.
Two films expected to gain a lot of attention despite being
screened 'out of competition' will be Steven Spielberg's "The
BFG", based on the novel by Roald Dahl, and the American
thriller "Money Monster" which is directed by Jodie Foster and
stars George Clooney and Julia Roberts.
While Roberts has never previously featured in a Cannes film,
Foster will be at the festival for the first time as a director.
Canadian rising director Xavier Dolan, who won the Jury Prize
with "Mommy" in 2014, is back with "It's Only the End of the
World".
Jim Jarmusch will have a double presence on the Riviera with a
documentary on Iggy Pop, “Gimme Danger” and “Paterson”, which
will be screened in the main competition.
For the first time the winner of the of the Palme d'Or will be
screened at the closing ceremony.
The main competition will feature former Palme d'Or winners
Jean-Pierre, Luc Dardenne and Ken Loach.
Pedro Almodovar, whose name appeared in the Panama Papers
scandal, is also in the main competition alongside Paul
Verhoeven.
Thursday's launch ceremony started following a demonstration by
showbusiness workers, who demanded an improvement of their
working conditions.
(Reporting by Julien Pretot, editing by Pritha Sarkar)
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