We’ve already reported that Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “Baby, Box, Broker” was submitted for Cannes 2002.
In another piece, we also confirmed that Ruben Ostlund’s “Triangle of Sadness” and Park Chan-wook’s “Decision to Leave” have been already accepted as competition titles.
Ok, so, what else? That’s a question I’ve been getting these last few weeks, and my honest answer is that I just don’t know. It’s already something to have three Cannes certainties at such an early stage of the year, and all we can do is speculate, spitball etc ..
There are definitely some no-brainers picks that will no doubt end up showing up this year, either via the film’s director publicly stating their intentions to go to Cannes or, in the purest sense of the term, intel … and I’ve been hounding that intel for weeks now.
Here’s what I’ve come up so far …
CERTAINTIES/HIGH-POSSIBILITIES
Baby, Box, Broker — Hirokazu Kore-eda
Triangle of Sadness — Ruben Ostlund
Decision to Leave — Park Chan-wook
Crimes of the Future — David Cronenberg
On Barren Weeds – Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Showing Up — Kelly Reichardt
Tori et Lokita — Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
R.M.N — Cristian Mungiu
Asteroid City — Wes Anderson
École de l'air — Robin Campillo
Monica — Kantemir Balagov
Passengers — Ira Sachs
Close — Lukas Dhont
Frere et Soeur — Arnaud Desplechin
La Chimera — Alice Rohrwacher
Eureka — Lisandro Alonso
Anatomy of a Fall — Justine Triet
The Beast — Bertrand Bonello
VERY POSSIBLE
Bardo - Alejandro Gonalez Inarittu
Armageddon Time — James Gray
Untitled — Jia Zhangke Project
The Way of the Wind — Terrence Malick
The Stars at Noon — Claire Denis
Untitled — Jean-Luc Godard
L'envol — Pietro Marcello
Untitled — Na Hong-Jin
LONGSHOTS
The Zone of Interest — Jonathan Glazer
The Son — Florian Zeller
The Perfumed Hill — Abderrahmane Sissako
The Eternal Daughter — Joanna Hogg
Revoir Paris — Alice Winocour
Three Thousand Years of Longing — George Miller
Nope — Jordan Peele