Early this morning in Paris, organizers for the Cannes International Film Festival announced the line-up for the 2014 edition of the prestigious event. As in recent years, there will be plenty of Hollywood stars walking the Croisette and plenty of films that will be awards contenders at the end of the year.
The opening film will be Olivier Dahan’s Grace of Monaco, the Grace Kelly biopic starring Nicole Kidman as the actress-turned-princess. A trailer for the film was released in March. In the U.S., The Weinstein Company has the distribution rights, but has not scheduled it for release here.
The In Competition line-up includes The Homesman, the new film directed by Tommy Lee Jones. Hilary Swank co-stars in the film.
Foxcatcher, the anticipated new project from Moneyball director Bennett Miller, will also be screened. It stars Steve Carell and Channing Tatum and was supposed to be released last year, but was pushed back until this year.
The Artist’s Michel Hazanavicius is back with The Search, while iconic French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard will be in competition with Adieu au language. Brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne will debut Deux Jours, Une Nuit and Mike Leigh is back with Mr. Turner.
The rest of the In Competition films include David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars; Olivier Assayas’ Sils Maria; Bertrand Bonello’s Saint Laurent; Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Kis Uykusu; Mommy by Xavier Dolan; Captives by Atom Egoyan; Naomi Kawase’s Futatsume no mado; Le Meraviglie by Alice Rohrwacher; Timbuktu by Abderrahmane Sissako; Relatos Salvajes by Damian Sifron; and Leviathan by Andrey Zvyagintsev.
Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut has been retitled Lost River and will be screened in the Un Certain Regard section. Eleanor Rigby