For pretty much every film nerd on Earth not either in the industry or absolutely fucking loaded, looking at the Cannes Film Festival lineup when it drops each year is a lot like window-shopping at a designer store when you’re broke. So many beautiful-looking films in such a gorgeous location with so much wild and wacky shit going on behind the scenes — walkouts, backroom deals, publicity stunts on yachts — it’s pretty hard to ever imagine going there when you’re getting yelled at by a manager for spending two minutes too long in the bathroom. But it’s also a good chance to preview the Year in Cinema based on the line-up alone, and it’s looking like we’re gonna have a pretty good one.
The 2022 edition of the festival has new films from David Cronenberg, James Gray, Kelly Reichardt, Park Chan-Wook, and Hirokazu Kore-Eda in competition and a few big premieres, like Top Gun: Maverick and Baz Lurhmann’s Elvis. We’re most excited to see what folks make of George Miller’s new film, Three Thousand Years of Longing, so much so that we’re debating taking out a second mortgage to see it premiere in person.
The Cannes Film Festival will run from May 17 through 28, and we’ll surely hear more about whatever nuttiness will go down on the Rivera this year in the coming weeks. Here’s the full line-up via Deadline:
Cannes 2022 Official Selection
COMPETITION
Les Amandiers, dir: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Holy Spider, dir: Ali Abbasi
Crimes Of The Future, dir: David Cronenberg
Stars At Noon, dir: Claire Denis
Frère Et Soeur, dir: Arnaud Desplechin
Tori And Lokita, dirs: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Armageddon Time, dir: James Gray
Close, dir: Lukas Dhont
Broker, dir: Hirokazu Kore-eda
RMN, dir: Cristian Mungiu
Triangle Of Sadness, dir: Ruben Ostlund
Showing Up, dir: Kelly Reichardt
Decision To Leave, dir: Park Chan-wook
Nostalgia, dir: Mario Martone
Tchaikovski’s Wife, dir: Kirill Serebrennikov
Boy From Heaven, dir: Tarik Saleh
Leila’s Brothers, dir: Saeed Roustaee
Eo, dir: Jerzy Skolimowski
UN CERTAIN REGARD
Les Pires, dirs: Lisa Akoka, Romane Gueret
Burning Days, dir: Emin Alper
Metronom, dir: Alexandru Belc
All The People I’ll Never Be, dir: Davy Chou
Sick Of Myself, dir: Kristoffer Borgli
Domingo And The Mist, dir: Ariel Escalante Meza
Plan 75, dir: Hayakawa Chie
Beast, dirs: Riley Keough, Gina Gammell
Corsage, dir: Marie Kreutzer
Butterfly Vision, dir: Maksim Nakonechnyi
The Silent Twins, dir: Agnieszka Smocynska
The Stranger, dir: Thomas M Wright
Joyland, dir: Saim Sadiq
Rodeo, dir: Lola Quivoron
Godland, dir: Hlynur Palmason
CANNES PREMIERE
Nos Frangins, dir: Rachid Bouchareb
Nightfall, dir: Marco Bellocchio
Dodo, dir: Panos H Koutras
Irma Vep (series), dir: Olivier Assayas
OUT OF COMPETITION
Z (Comme Z), dir: Michel Hazanavicius
Top Gun: Maverick, dir: Joseph Kosinski
Elvis, dir: Baz Luhrmann
Novembre, dir: Cédric Jimenez
Three Thousand Years Of Longing, dir: George Miller
Mascarade, dir: Nicolas Bedos
MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
Hunt, dir: Lee Jung-Jae
Moonage Daydream, dir: Brett Morgen
Fumer Fait Tousser, dir: Quentin Dupieux
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
All That Breathes, dir: Shaunak Sen
The Natural History Of Destruction, dir: Sergei Loznitsa
Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble In Mind, dir: Ethan Coen