As is custom, the Cannes Movie Competition has introduced late-breaking additions to its 2025 pageant lineup, with new movies coming from Lynne Ramsay, Bi Gan, and Saeed Roustayi.
The 78th version will now embrace Ramsay’s “Die, My Love,” starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson, within the competitors. All of the Scottish director’s earlier movies have premiered at Cannes; the darkish martial comedy/horror is her first movie since 2017’s “You Had been By no means Actually Right here” received the Cannes Greatest Screenplay prize. Right here, Jennifer Lawrence performs a spouse unraveling within the nation, and married to Pattinson’s character. LaKeith Stanfield, Nick Nolte, and Sissy Spacek additionally star on this adaptation of Ariana Harwicz’s novel. Ramsay wrote the script with Enda Walsh.
The movie made it into Cannes simply in time as hoped, and this implies we’ll be seeing Lawrence and Pattinson standing in entrance of glittering flash bulbs on the Palais purple carpet.
In the meantime, “Girl and Baby,” the most recent movie by Iranian director Saeed Roustaee, can even be a part of the competitors this 12 months. Roustayi was nominated for the Palme d’Or in 2022 for “Leila’s Brothers,” a three-hour household epic starring frequent Asghar Farhadi collaborator Taraneh Alidoosti.
In Un Sure Regard, Kristen Stewart’s long-in-the-works directorial debut “The Chronology of Water,” starring Imogen Poots, will compete for the Digital camera d’Or. The movie is predicated on Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir about discovering salvation out of abuse by turning into a swimmer.
Simón Mesa Soto’s “Un Poeta” and Pedro Pinho’s “O Riso e a Faca (Le Rire et le Couteau)” can even debut in Un Sure Regard.
Kōji Fukada’s “Renai Saiban,” Hlynur Pálmason’s “Astin Sem Eftir Er,” and Lav Diaz’s “Magalhaes” will be a part of the Cannes premiere part.
Vincent Maël Cardona’s “Le Roi Soleil” and Ethan Coen’s “Honey Don’t,” starring Margaret Qualley, will premiere within the Midnight part.
In Particular Screenings, “Amelie et la Metaphysique des Tubes” from Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han, “Mama” from Or Sinai, “Arco” from Ugo Bienvenu, and “Qui Brille au Fight” from Josephine Japy be a part of the lineup.
And as a part of a tribute to Pierre Richard, “L’Homme Qui a Vu L’ours Qui a Vu L’homme” will play the pageant.
See the complete 78th Cannes Movie Competition lineup right here. The most recent additions be a part of new movies from Wes Anderson (“The Phoenician Scheme”), Kelly Reichardt (“The Mastermind”), Ari Aster (“Eddington”), Julia Ducournau (“Alpha”), Spike Lee (“Highest 2 Lowest”), Joachim Trier (“Sentimental Worth”), and extra.