This week, the annual Cannes Film Festival will be held on the French Riviera, bringing with it the biggest personalities in international filmmaking.
Film fans will be hoping to recognize Harrison Ford, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Phoebe Waller-Bridge on the red carpet.
In addition to dozens of other films, Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson, and Ken Loach are premiering at the festival.
Johnny Depp may make an appearance for the first time since his protracted legal conflicts with his ex-wife Amber Heard.
What are the five films that everyone is discussing?
Harrison Ford’s concluding performance as the daring whip-wielding archaeologist Indiana Jones is one of the most anticipated at the film festival.
In the world premiere of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, the 80-year-old action hero will reunite for the fifth and final time with his trusted leather jacket and Stetson.
His co-stars include Phoebe Waller-Bridge of Fleabag, who was born four years after the publication of the first Raiders of the Lost Ark film in 1981.
Fans will be eager to see the results of the “de-aging” special effects on Ford in the film’s opening sequences, and James Mangold’s direction will also be scrutinized.
Steven Spielberg executive produced Dial of Destiny, the first Indiana Jones picture he did not direct.
“This is an excellent Indiana Jones film. I’m incredibly pleased with what Jim has accomplished,” he told Variety.
During his high-profile court fights with ex-wife Amber Heard, Johnny Depp’s cinematic career appeared in jeopardy.
Three years after being cut from the Fantastic Beasts franchise, he will return to the big screen as Louis XV in Jeanne du Barry, which will open the Cannes Film Festival.
Depp speaks French in the film about a poor seamstress’ daughter who became the French King’s final official mistress.
Mawenn, the eponymous French actress who also wrote and directed the French-language film, portrays the title character.
Mawenn does not run away from controversy. She spit in a journalist’s face last week on a talk programme and criticised #metoo.
Wes Anderson is finishing Asteroid City as social media is full of parodies of him.
Scarlett Johansson leads an ensemble of Hollywood royalty, which also includes Tom Hanks, Tilda Swinton, Jason Schwartzman, Jeff Goldblum, Margot Robbie, and Steve Carell.
In the story of a fictional American desert community where a junior stargazer convention is interrupted by world-changing events, she portrays a 1950s movie icon akin to Bette Davis.
Is it a film of science fiction? What about a romantic comedy? There are few concrete details about the narrative, but the trailer suggests it is very… Wes Anderson.
This makes its Cannes premiere one of the most sought-after tickets in town.
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) and I, Daniel Blake (2016) received the Palm d’Or for Ken Loach.
Could he win a third award for best film at the age of 86?
The Old Oak, his latest work, is about the final bar in an ex-mining village in County Durham where Syrian refugees are settling.
Loach wanted to make a hopeful but realistic film.
TJ Ballantyne is portrayed by a former local firefighter, Dave Turner, and real refugees were also recruited to participate.
Last year, Turner told, “I have no idea what I’m doing.” “No other word can adequately express how terrifying it is. But Ken Loach and the people around him make you believe you can do it – that’s why I’m here.”
The release of a new Martin Scorsese film always generates excitement among cinema enthusiasts.
The hype engine revs up as he reunites with Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro.
With reports that Leonardo DiCaprio has already dubbed Killers of the Flower Moon a “masterpiece” and early Oscars talk on social media, anticipation for the film’s Cannes premiere is rising.
Based on a David Grann book, it describes the 1920s Oklahoma massacre of the oil-rich Osage Nation.
This event, known as the Reign of Terror, prompted a significant FBI investigation led by J. Edgar Hoover.
Scorsese has stated that despite its three-hour-and-twenty-six-minute length, it is intended to be viewed in theatres. “This is a big-screen movie, and that’s exactly what we made,” he said.
