On April 22, local time, the Cannes Film Festival Organizing Committee announced the list of supplementary films for each unit of the 77th edition. Among them, "An Unfinished Film" by Chinese director Lou Ye has been shortlisted for the special screening section, which can be considered as confirming the previously rumored news.
Lou Ye
At present, the outside world has limited knowledge about the specific content of Lou Ye's new work. There are rumors that it is a documentary. In the first batch of film lists announced by Cannes, there are already many Chinese films on the list: Jia Zhangke's "The Romance" was shortlisted for the main competition; Guan Hu's "Dogs" was shortlisted for the Un Certain Regard unit; Zheng Baorui's "" Kowloon Walled City: The Siege " was shortlisted for the Midnight Screening Unit; Peter Chan's " Jiangyuan Lane " was shortlisted for the Non-Competition Screening Unit. On the supplementary film list of
, three more films were added to the main competition section, namely "The Curious Thing" by the French director Michel Azanavicius, who is famous for "The Artist", and the Romanian director E. "Three Kilometers to the End of the World" by Manuel Pervu, and "The Seed of the Sacred Fig" by the famous Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof. So far, a total of 22 films will compete for the Palme d'Or this year.
Among them, "Rare Things" is an animated feature film. In the 77-year history of the Cannes Film Festival, it is not common for animated films to be selected into the main competition unit. Only " compose music for me " (1946), "Dumbo" (1947), " Peter Pan " "(1953), " A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1959), "Primordial " (1973), "Shrek" (2001), "Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence" (2004), " "Shrek 2" (2004), " I grew up in Iran " (2007), " Waltz with Bashir " (2008), a total of ten movies.
In addition, Lou Ye's "An Unfinished Film" has been added to the special screening section, as well as Oliver Stone's documentary "Lula" about Brazilian President Lula, and French director A. "The Spectator", a new work by Nod de Pleschamps.
"An Unfinished Film" has been shortlisted for the special screening unit
There are no Japanese films shortlisted in the main competition unit of this year's Cannes Film Festival, but the film festival itself still has many elements of Japanese films. The main poster of this year's film festival is inspired by Akira Kurosawa's "August Rhapsody". This year, in addition to George Lucas, another honorary Palme d'Or belongs to Studio Ghibli. This is the first time in the history of Cannes that the honorary Palme d'Or has been awarded to a group rather than an individual.
The 77th Cannes Film Festival will be held from May 14 to May 25, 2024. The chairman of the main competition unit jury is Greta Gerwig, the American director who directed "Barbie" and "Lady Bird" Serve.
