Cannes Announces Official Selections
Tommy Lee Jones, Bennett Miller, David Cronenberg and Atom Egoyan will duke it out with Jean-Luc Godard, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Michel Hazanavicius and the Dardenne brothers for the Palme d’Or at the 67th annual Cannes Film Festival, which unveiled its official selection lineup this morning in Paris by fest topper Thierry Fremaux. The wide-ranging competition slate is typically heavy on French filmmakers, with Olivier Assayas’ international co-production “Clouds of Sils Maria†and Bertrand Bonello’s fashion-designer biopic “Saint Laurent†joining Hazanavicius’ “The Search†and Godard’s 3D experiment “Goodbye to Language.†Fremaux noted that Godard, famously a no-show at the 2010 Cannes premiere of his “Film socialisme,†had “promised he’ll be there — which doesn’t mean he will!â€
