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Cannes Lineup Takeaways: A Distinctly Fresh Vibe But Also Plenty Of Star Power
Tom Cruise and Scarlett Johansson Are Among Stars Headed To Cannes. But This Is Also A Fresh Lineup.
The likes of Mascha Schilinski, Hafsia Herzi and Chie Hayakawa, let alone Julie Ducournau and Carla Simon, represent a potential new wave of filmmakers. The UCR section, which is primarily for emerging filmmakers, has some real oomph behind it this edition with buzzed about first movies from the likes of Harris Dickinson and Akinola Davies Jr. It’s a good thing that Paramount and Mission Impossible came through because recent additions have tended to have a couple of big-canvas studio movies.
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