At the Cannes Film Festival, Limonov will speak English, and Trump will become young

Films with the participation of Yura Borisov and a recent graduate of the Moscow Art Theater School-Studio Mark Eidelstein will be shown on the Cote d’Azur

The program of the 77th Cannes Film Festival has been announced, which will open on May 14 with the film “Second Act” by French director Quentin Dupieux. The main role was played by Léa Seydoux. Her heroine is trying to introduce her boyfriend (Louis Garrel) to her father (the magnificent Vincent Lindon) at a roadside cafe.

The jury of the main competition will be headed by American director Greta Gerwig, who directed “Barbie.” The jury of Un Certain Regard will be presided over by 35-year-old Canadian director Xavier Dolan, winner of four Cannes awards, practically a child prodigy who appeared on the iconostasis of the world’s main festival in his youth.

19 films were entered into the main competition. Among them is “Megapolis” by the 85-year-old American classic, two-time Palme d’Or winner Francis Ford Coppola. He received high Cannes awards for the films “The Conversation” and “Apocalypse Now.” Coppola worked on a new, or rather old, project based on an ancient Roman treatise for about 40 years. The leading actor, Adam Driver, is the same age today.

Another veteran, 81-year-old Canadian director David Cronenberg, will present the partly biographical and at the same time fantastic film “Shroud” about the relationship of the hero (Vincent Cassel) with his dead wife (Diane Kruger). Cronenberg himself became a widower in 2017.

German actor Franz Rogowski starred in the British “Bird” by Andrea Arnold, Richard Gere and Uma Thurman starred in Paul Schrader’s “Oh Canada,” and Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe starred in “Kindness” by Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos. The main role in Gilles Lelouch’s “Broken Hearts” was played by Adele Exarchopoulos (“La Vie Adele”). Chiara Mastroianni becomes a frightening copy of her father in Christophe Honoré’s My Marcello. Considering that her real father is Marcello Mastroianni, the risky metamorphosis is of particular interest.

“Caught by the Waves” was filmed by Jia Zhangke in a Chinese province far from the tourist trails. “Parthenope” by the famous Neapolitan Paolo Sorrentino is based on ancient mythology. Jacques Audiard directed the crime-social musical “Emilia Perez.”

“The Apprentice” by Iranian-born Swedish director Ali Abbasi will tell the story of a young Donald Trump. He was played by an American actor of Romanian origin, Sebastian Stan. In the role of Ivanka, Trump’s ex-wife, is the Bulgarian actress Maria Bakalova, known as Borat’s daughter in Borat 2, which brought her an Oscar nomination.

The competition also included “Anora” by American director Sean Baker about the sex industry. Filming took place in New York, and involved Russian actors Yura Borisov and a recent graduate of the Moscow Art Theater School-Studio Mark Eidelstein, who managed to star in several Russian films – “Country of Sasha”, “Monastery”, “One Hundred Years Ahead”.

Russian film critic Boris Nelepo took part as an actor in Miguel Gomes’s Portuguese “Great Journey”. The film tells about the events in Burma in 1917.

Kirill Serebrennikov will present his first English-language film “Limonov. The Ballad of Eddie” (Italy-France-Spain) based on the novel “Limonov” by the French writer Emmanuel Carrère. The main role was played by British actor Ben Whishaw, known for the films Cloud Atlas and Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. Among the screenwriters is Canadian-based director of Polish origin Paweł Pawlikowski (Cold War). He himself wanted to make a film about Limonov, but something didn’t work out.

In Serebrennikov’s film, the role of the poetess and Limonov’s second wife Elena Shchapova was played by Victoria Miroshnichenko, who made her debut in Kantemir Balagov’s “Dylda.” The film also starred: Russian actress Maria Mashkova (Anna), living in the USA, French star Sandrine Bonner (her credits include “East-West” by Regis Warnier based on the script by Rustam Ibragimbekov and Sergei Bodrov Sr., which starred Oleg Menshikov and Sergei Bodrov- Jr.), American actor Odin Land Byron – a graduate of the Moscow Art Theater School, who worked at Satyricon and the Gogol Center, and played Tchaikovsky in the film Tchaikovsky’s Wife). The cameraman of the film was Roman Vasyanov.

“Limonov. The Ballad of Eddie” is the fifth film by Kirill Serebrennikov in the Cannes Film Festival program. His “Apprentice” was shown in Un Certain Regard, and “Summer”, “Petrovs in the Flu” and “Tchaikovsky’s Wife” were shown in the main competition. The new film was shot mainly in Russia until Kirill Serebrennikov left for Berlin.

The Un Certain Regard program includes “Shameless” by Bulgarian director Konstantin Bozhanov. More than ten years ago, he co-produced Marusya by Romanian director Eva Pervolovici. Its premiere took place at the Berlinale, and the main role – a Russian migrant in Paris – was played by Dinara Drukarova, who lives in France. Also entered in the second most important competition is “The Story of Suleiman” by Boris Lozhkin, who films in France and Belgium.

Out of competition, they will show “Horizons: Part 1” by Kevin Costner and the autobiographical film “It’s Not Me” by Leos Karas,

Star Wars director George Lucas will be awarded an honorary Palme d’Or for his contribution to world cinema.