This year’s Cannes Film Festival has death on its mind. We’ve got new entries from our favorite fatalistic auteurs: George Miller’s Fury Road prequel, Furiosa; Paul Schrader’s meditation on mortality, Oh, Canada; David Cronenberg’s, well, meditation on mortality, The Shrouds; Francis Ford Coppola’s self-funded apocalyptic vision, Megalopolis; Yorgos Lanthimos’s pitch-black, comic debasementfest, Kinds of Kindness; and Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice, about how Roy Cohn and Donald Trump killed America. On the possibly (?) ever so slightly lighter (?) side, we’ve also got some new Andrea Arnold to look forward to (Bird with Franz Rogowski and Barry Keoghan), a musical starring Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldaña (Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Perez), and some freaky body horror with Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley (Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance). Here, the 11 films we can’t wait to see at Cannes. |