20 Odds-on Favorites for Cannes '17 Official Competition



"Based on a True Story" (Roman Polanski)
"Happy End" (Michael Haneke)
"High Life" (Claire Denis)
"The Death and Life of John F Donovan" (Xavier Dolan)
"Mektoub is Mektoub" Abdelattif Kechiche)
"Ismael's Ghosts" (Arnaud Despechin)
"Thelma" (Joachim Trier)
"Where Life is Born" (Carlos Reygadas)
"The Square" (Ruben Ostlund)
"Loveless" (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
"Zama" (Lucrecia Martel)
"The Killing of a Sacred Deer" (Yorgos Lanthimos)
"You Were Never Really Here" (Lynn Ramsay)
"Wonderstruck" (Todd Haynes)
"Logan Lucky" (Steven Soderbergh)
"Downsizing" (Alexander Payne)
"Okja" (Jonn Ho Bong)
"Kings" (Deniz Gamze Erguven)
"The Waves Are Gone" (Lav Daz)
"Jeanette" (Bruno Dumont)

The 2017 Cannes Film Festival runs from the 17 to 28 May. 


Am I missing any here? Based on research these seem like the most set-in-stone. Of course, there's always surprises. Just look at last year with "Toni Erdmann." Anyways, I will be there again this year covering the fest.