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Scarlett Johansson, Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor set for Cannes 2025 as lineup announced
Premieres of new movies by Wes Anderson, Richard Linklater, Ari Aster, Kelly Reichardt, Joachim Trier and Jafar Panahi to screen at film festival – as well debuts by actor-turned-directors Johansson and Harris Dickinson
In the main competition, Anderson’s star-studded The Phoenician Scheme – featuring Benicio del Toro, Michael Cera, Tom Hanks, Benedict Cumberbatch and Scarlett Johansson – will compete for the Palme d’Or against Midsommar director Ari Aster’s western black comedy Eddington, which stars Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone and Pedro Pascal. Rising British actor Josh O’Connor plays the lead in two competition films, US film-maker Kelly Reichardt’s Vietnam war-set The Mastermind and South African director Oliver Hermanus’s gay romance The History of Sound. Also in the running for the Palme d’Or are Sentimental Value by Norwegian director Joachim Trier, who was nominated for best film in 2021 (when lead Renate Reinsve won the best actress award) for The Worst Person in the World, Iranian dissident Jafar Panahi with A Simple Accident, and influential Belgian arthouse titans Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, with Jeunes Méres.
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