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| Flashback to Cannes 2017 when Joaquin Phoenix (best actor) and Lynne Ramsay (best screenplay) for the thriller You Were Never Really Here Photo: Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival |
Lynne Ramsay who was last in Cannes in 2017 with her thriller You Were Never Really Here featuring Joaquin Phoenix and recipient of the best screenplay award, returns to the official selection as a late entry with Die, My Love starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson.
Based on a first novel by Ariana Harwicz which Ramsay herself has adapted, it revolves around a woman (Lawrence) who, after the birth of a baby, has a torrent of conflicting emotions to which her husband (Pattinson) barely acknowledges.
Ramsay’s presence will mark the seventh female director in the official Competition, a record-breaking number for Cannes, suggest the Festival organisers. The film was only screened to the selectors after the official launch press conference was held
Additional titles in the official selection comprise: Saeed Roustaee’s Mother and Child in Competition; Anna Cazenave Cambet’s Love Me Tender, Simón Mesa Soto’s Un Poeta and Pedro Pinho’s O Riso E A Faca (Le Rire et le Couteau) in Un Certain Regard; Kōji Fukada’s Renai Saiban, Hlynur Pálmason’s Ástin Sem Eftir Er, Lav Diaz’s Magalhães in Cannes Premiere; and Vincent Maël Cardona’s Le Roi Soleil and Ethan Coen’s Honey Don’t both join of the Midnight Screenings.
Kirsten Stewart's first film as a director The Chronology Of Water will show in Un Certain Regard.
The 78th edition of the Festival runs from 13 to 24 May.
