Oliver Stone, Lou Ye, Michel Hazanavicius Films & ‘The Count Of Monte Cristo’ Among New Titles Added To Cannes 2024 Official Selection
deadline.comThe Cannes Film Festival has added 13 new titles to the selection for its 77th edition, including new films by Oliver Stone, Lou Ye and Arnaud Desplechin as Special Screenings.
Stone has made it in with his documentary Lula about former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The work follows the politician’s imprisonment in 2018 and 2019 and then his return to power.
Cannes habitué Despechin returns with Filmlovers! revisits the character of Paul Dédalus, who previously appeared in My Sex Life… or How I Got into an Argument (1996) and My Golden Days (2016).
This new and final chapter in the series will revolve around a movie theatre from the 1960s to the present day. Three more titles have been added to competition including Michel Hazanavicius’ first animated feature The Most Precious of Cargoes about the fate of a baby boy who is thrown from an Auschwitz-bound train by his French-Jewish father as it crosses a Polish forest and found by a childless woodcutter’s wife.
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