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What’s at Cannes? Furiosa, Francis Ford Coppola, Sebastian Stan As Donald Trump.


This year’s Cannes Film Festival is filled with big-name auteurs, big-name stars, and visions of doom.

side, we’ve also got some new Andrea Arnold to look forward to ( Bird, with Franz Rogowski and Barry Keoghan), a musical starring Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldaña (Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Perez), and some freaky body horror with Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley (Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance). Cannes mainstay and perfect freak David Cronenberg has premiered six movies in competition since Crash scandalized the Croisette in 1996, when critics called him “perverse” and “sexually deviant.” His last effort, Crimes of the Future, fared better, though he’s still never won the Palme d’Or. The film follows a “woman tasked with assisting an escaped Mexican cartel leader undergo sex reassignment surgery to both evade the authorities and affirm her gender.” Spanish actress Karla Sofía Gascón, known primarily for telenovelas, stars in the title role.

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