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14 Movies We Can’t Wait to See at This Year’s Cannes Film Festival
A Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor romance, an Ari Aster Western, and new movies from Lynne Ramsay, Spike Lee, and Wes Anderson.
Don’t call it a remake: Spike Lee, directing a screenplay by Alan Fox, prefers to describe his new movie as a “reinterpretation” of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 High and Low, which starred Toshiro Mifune as an executive whose attempts to take over the shoe company he works for are complicated by a kidnapping plot. Last year, Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke gave us the first installment in what they’ve described as a “lesbian B-movie trilogy”: Drive-Away Dolls, a charmingly rambling rom-com caper starring Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan as friends-turned-lovers who get unintentionally involved in a dildo-centric crime ring. There are scenes from animator and comic book artist Sylvain Chomet’s The Triplets of Belleville that remain stuck in my head like a catchy chorus — like the way that the gangsters who kidnap Madame Souza’s cyclist grandson congeal into a single overcoated blob when standing together, or the explosive technique the singing sisters of the title use to fish for frogs.
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