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Cannes 2022 Lineup: James Gray, Claire Denis, and More Compete for Palme d’Or

This year’s Cannes lineup is, for now, a Lynch-less one, but it’s nonetheless stacked with new works by other established auteurs.

Cannes 2022 Lineup: James Gray, David Cronenberg, Claire Denis, and More Compete for Palme d’Or
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Mere days after Film Twitter was sent into another tizzy, this time over the news that David Lynch would be premiering a new movie at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the festival has unveiled the majority of its lineup and it does looks like this year’s edition will be a Lynch-less one. But on a positive note, more than a few of the expected films that have been rumored for months did make the cut, among them James Gray’s Armageddon Time, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Broker, Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave, Kelly Reichardt’s Showing Up, Claire Denis’s Stars at Noon, and Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness.

The lineup, which consists of 18 competition titles, was unveiled by the festival’s artistic director and general delegate, Thierry Frémaux, and festival president Pierre Lescure from Paris’s UGC Normandie cinema on the Champs-Elysées. Michel Hazanavicius’s zombie comedy Z, previously titled Final Cut and originally planned to premiere at Sundance earlier this year, will open the festival on May 17 out of completion. The only question mark left after today’s announcement, besides whether some kind of work by Lynch might actually be set to premiere at the festival, is who will be tasked with leading this year’s jury.

See below for a complete list of this year’s Competition, Un Certain Regard, Out of Competition, Special and Midnight, and Cannes Premiere titles.

Opening Night Film
Z, Michel Hazanavicius

Competition
Armageddon Time, James Gray
Boy From Heaven, Tarik Saleh
Broker, Hirokazu Kore-eda
Close, Lukas Dhont
Crimes of the Future, David Cronenberg
Decision to Leave, Park Chan-wook
Eo, Jerzy Skolimowski
Frere et Soeur, Arnaud Desplechin
Holy Spider, Ali Abbasi
Leila’s Brothers, Saeed Roustaee
Les Amandiers, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Nostalgia, Mario Martone
Showing Up, Kelly Reichardt
Stars at Noon, Claire Denis
Tchaïkovski’s Wife, Kirill Serebrennikov
Triangle of Sadness, Ruben Östlund
Tori and Lokita, Jean-Pierre et Luc Daradenne
RMN, Cristian Mungiu

Un Certain Regard
All the People I’ll Never Be, Davy Chou
Beast, Riley Koeugh and Gina Gammell
Burning Days, Emin Alper
Butterfly Vision, Maksim Nakonechnyi
Corsage, Marie Kreutzer
Domingo and the Midst, Ariel Escalante Meza
Godland, Hlynur Palmason
Joyland, Saim Sadiq
Les Pires, Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret
Metronom, Alexandru Belc
Plan 75, Hayakawa Chie
Rodeo, Lola Quivoron
Sick of Myself, Kristoffer Borgli
The Silent Twins, Agnieszka Smocynska
The Stranger, Thomas M. Wright

Out of Competition
Elvis, Baz Luhrmann
Masquerade, Nicolas Bedos
November, Cédric Jimenez
Three Thousand Years of Longing, George Miller
Top Gun: Maverick, Joseph Kosinski

Special Screenings
All That Breaths, Shaunak Sen
Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind, Ethan Coen
The Natural History of Destruction, Sergei Loznitsa

Midnight Screenings
Hunt, Lee Jung-Jae
Moonage Daydream, Brett Morgen
Smoking Makes You Cough, Quentin Dupieux

Cannes Premiere
Dodo, Panos H. Koutras
Irma Vep, Olivier Assayas
Nightfall, Marco Bellocchio
Nos Frangins, Rachid Bouchareb

Ed Gonzalez

Ed Gonzalez is the co-founder of Slant Magazine. A member of the New York Film Critics Circle, his writing has appeared in The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Times, and other publications.

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