David Rooney's 10 Must-Watch Cannes Championship

With the 2025 Cannes Film Festival kicking off on Tuesday, a key question is which movies to miss on Croisette.

Veterans from competitions like Dardenne Brothers, Kelly Reichardt and Joachim Trier to newly promoted Auteurs thrLead Film Critics Upgrade 10 Basic Premieres

Death, my love

Lynne Ramsey makes his first outstanding debut, turning his head for the first time in Cannes ratcatcherabout a 12-year-old boy grew up in poverty in a Glasgow housing project. Three years later, the Scottish director returned to Croisette Morvern shut up,and We need to talk about Kevin In 2011 and You've never been here In 2017. Admirers have long been waiting for Ramsey’s fifth album, a thriller that she has been described as “dark and sex” starring Jennifer Lawrence, the new mother of postpartum depression, deteriorates, deteriorates mental health and breaks down marriage. Robert Pattinson co-starred in the roles with Lakeith Stanfield, Sissy Spacek and Nick Nolte.

Eddington

Joaquin Phoenix (left) and Pedro Pascal in "Eddington". Provided by A24

After earning reputation as the terrifying master of Insta Cult Genetics and midsummerand then with Bo is scaredAri Aster competes with this contemporary West in the first Cannes venue. Joaquin Phoenix plays the town's New Mexico sheriff, and Pedro Pascal is the local mayor. If the trailer for the movie could be played, their deadlock caused a split up riot among residents and social media tensions increased. Promising cast also includes Luke Grimes, Clifton Collins Jr., Emma Stone and Austin Butler.

The history of sound

"The History of Sound" Provided by Winter in Winter

South African director Oliver Hermanus has been working hard in recent years, with strong racist and gay dramas in 2019, Mo Feiabout a young gay man in the apartheid army. And 2022 Livingis an exquisite English-language adaptation of Akira Kurosawa Classic, ikiruwith Bill Nighy serving as London bureaucrat, navigating the rest of the time after the diagnosis of advanced cancer. His new film, based on a glowing short story by Ben Shattuck, plays Josh O'Connor and Paul Mescal, was a lover who traveled together in the summer of 1919, walking hundreds of miles to document ballads and folk songs from rural New England.

Planner

After the premiere Appear Kelly Reichardt's drama returns in the 2022 Cannes game, bringing her to Massachusetts frequently from the Pacific Northwest around 1970. unfolds against the backdrop of the Vietnam War. Against the backdrop of the Women's Liberation Movement, the film star Josh O'Connor, Josh O'Connor, an unemployed carpenter who played the stage on the stage at the time, was a coincidence who played dance companionship on the stage. hay. The ensemble also includes Alana Haim, John Magaro, Gaby Hoffman and Hope Davis.

pilgrimage

'pilgrimage' Courtesy of Quim Vives/Elastica Movie

After her adorable 2017 album debut Summer 1993Carla Simón wins the 2022 Berlin Golden Bear alcarràIt is a deep personal portrait, performed with non-professional actors, a peach tree family that is about to lose generations to maintain their orchard. The family history of the Catalan director is once again at the heart of her latest work, telling the story of a young woman traveling to Galicia to meet her grandparents, uncles and aunts for the first time. Her parents both died of AIDS when they were young. Her father's lingering shame in drug addiction made her relatives reluctant to revisit his losses, but she found her own way of estimating her painful past.

Agent

Wagner Moura returned to Portuguese cinema for the first time in several years, Wagner Moura from Brazil's historical political thriller, won the 2019 Cannes Jury Award and was awarded with an imaginative anti-colonialist Western, Western Award bacurau (Co-directed with Juliano Dornelles). Like the memoir of troubled documentary in 2023 Ghost picturesthe new film was produced by Recife, the director's hometown of director in the last few years of the country's military dictatorship. It seeks a peaceful shelter around a mysterious past, centering on a school teacher of a mysterious past.

Emotional value

"Emotional Value" Provided by Kasper Tuxen/Mubi

A summary of Joachim Trier's Oslo trilogy, The Worst People in the Worldthe highlight of the 2021 Cannes competition, re-emerged in the Best Actress Award and placed her on the international map. It also goes on to receive two Oscar nominations. The director teamed up with his long-time writing partner Eskil Vogt to play Reinsve again, this time as a renowned stage actress, portraying intimate portraits of Norwegian families and the houses they lived in for generations, reflecting the ability to remember and reconcile the art of art. Stellan Skarsgard and Elle Fanning are also stars.

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All three of Oliver Laxe's previous features premiered in Cannes and sent him home with prizes. Especially after his hypnotic slow-burning drama about rural life, the risk of extinction of the Galician Mountains The fire will comeWinning the 2019 UN Jury Award, is only a matter of time before the French-born Spanish director upgrades from the sidebar to the main game. Always great Sergi López plays a father, looking for a lost daughter, who travels with her son and revels in the mountains in southern Morocco, where she disappears and they will be forced to face their limits.

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Frank Dillane Provided by charades

Cannes is crawling actors this year, with actors making their debuts in starring, including Kristen Stewart's The age of waterImogen's Pots, as a woman, attempts to find her voice and direct her trauma into the art. And Scarlett Johansson Eleanor Greata non-graduate starring June Squibb, who connected it to New York City from Florida and established a friendship with 19-year-old students. The original portrait of Harris Dickinson is the original portrait of an unpopular London man played by Frank Dillane, who tries to break his relentless cycle of self-destruction and change his life.

Young mother's home

"Young Mother's Home" Courtesy of Christine Plenus

Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne Rosettaagain in 2005 child. One might say that with its iconic naturalism, leftist leanings and blue-collar environment, you know what you're going to get from the Belgian brothers, like their British rival Ken Loach. But their ruthless social realist drama rarely pierces the heart, which promises to be with this latest update, about five women from troubled backgrounds, living in shelters while working to build a better life for themselves and their children.