The festival teams have this last day to finish the preparations in the luxurious resort of the French Côte d’Azurbefore rolling out the famous red carpet on Tuesday and giving the starting gun.
Countless stars of the seventh art will pass through it, such as Tom Cruise, who returns to his role as an aviator in the new version of top gunand Tom Hanks, as the manager of the king of rock n roll in Elvis.
Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart star in crimes of the futurea story about organ mutations, the latest from Canadian David Cronenberg, in contention for the Palme d’Or.
Total, 21 films will compete for the top awardwhich will be delivered by the jury chaired by French actor Vincent Lindon on May 28.
Some of the filmmakers aspire to a new Palme d’Or, like the Dardenne brothers (“Rosetta” and “El nino”) with Tori and Lokitathe Swedish Ruben Ostlund (“The square”) with triangle of sadnessor the Japanese Hirokazu Kore-eda (“A Family Affair”), with broker. The Spaniard Albert Serra competes with Pacificiona story of diplomatic espionage and nuclear tests in Tahiti.
The competition includes five directors -a record in the history of the contest- and one of them could take over from Julia Ducournau, who last year became Titan the second woman to win the Palme d’Or.
The French Claire Denis presents stars at noona torrid story set in Nicaragua in the 1980s, and the American Kelly Reichardt narrates the daily life of an artist in showing-up.
Ukraine will also be present at Cannes hand in hand with several filmmakers from that country at war, such as veteran Sergei Loznitsa and new director Maksim Nakonechnyi, with a film set in the Donbas war, which broke out in 2014. The posthumous film by Lithuanian Mantas Kvedaravicius will also be seen, who died in April in Mariupol, whose images recorded there could have been collected by his girlfriend.