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Coming off a 2024 edition that produced the Academy Award
best-picture winner “Anora,” as well as a number of Oscar
contenders in “Emilia Pérez,” “The Substance" and “The
Apprentice," the French film festival responded with a 2025
lineup bursting with big-name auteurs.
Thierry Frémaux, Cannes’ artistic director, announced the
selections in a news conference in Paris with festival president
Iris Knobloch.
Entries include Aster’s “Eddington,” a pandemic-set Western
starring Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal and Emma Stone;
Anderson’s “The Phoenician Scheme," starring Benicio Del Toro as
a European profiteer and Linklater's appropriately
French-language “Nouvelle Vague,” about Jean-Luc Godard and the
French New Wave.
Julia Ducournau, whose “Titane” won the Palme d’Or in 2021,
making Ducournau only the second female filmmaker to ever
receive Cannes’ top honor, will return to the festival with the
1980s New York-set “Alpha,” about an 11-year-old with a parent
who has AIDS.
Other previously Cannes regulars coming back include two-time
Palme winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. The Belgian
filmmaking brothers’ latest is titled “Young Mothers.” Joachim
Trier, whose “The Worst Person in the World” was a highlight of
the 2021 Cannes, is back in competition with “Sentimental
Value,” which likewise stars Renate Reinsve.
Playing outside of competition is Scarlett Johansson’s “Eleanor
the Great” — the actor's directorial debut.
Among the films some had hoped might show up in Cannes but that
weren’t announced were Terrence Malick’s long-awaited Jesus
drama “The Way of the Wind” and Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One
Battle After Another.”
Cannes earlier announced that “Mission Impossible: The Final
Reckoning” will launch at the festival, which three years ago
bestowed an honorary Palme d’Or on Tom Cruise. This year, Robert
De Niro is set to receive one during the festival’s opening
ceremony.
Following in the footsteps of Greta Gerwig, Juliette Binoche
will head the jury that decide this year’s Palme d’Or. Knobloch
said it's the first time in 60 years that two women succeed each
other in this role.
The festival runs May 13-24.
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