Oliver Stone, Lou Ye, Michel Hazanavicius Films & ‘The Count Of Monte Cristo’ Among New Titles Added To Cannes 2024 Official Selection

Melanie Goodfellow
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The Cannes Film Festival has added 13 titles to the selection for its 77th edition, including new films by Oliver Stone, Lou Ye and Arnaud Desplechin as Special Screenings.

Stone has made it in with his documentary Lula, about former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The work follows the politician’s imprisonment in 2018 and 2019 and then his return to power.

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Cannes habitué Despechin returns with Filmlovers! which revisits the character of Paul Dédalus, who previously appeared in My Sex Life… or How I Got into an Argument (1996) and My Golden Days (2016). This new and final chapter in the series will revolve around a movie theater from the 1960s to the present day.

Three more titles have been added to competition including Michel Hazanavicius’ first animated feature The Most Precious of Cargoes, about the fate of a baby boy who is thrown from an Auschwitz-bound train by his French-Jewish father as it crosses a Polish forest and found by a childless woodcutter’s wife.

The touching drama is adapted from the eponymous novel by Jean-Claude Grumberg, who co-wrote the screenplay with Hazanavicius.

Other new Palme d’Or contenders include dissident Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof The Seed of the Sacred Fig. Rasoulof was to have served on the Un Certain Regard last year but was barred from leaving Iran.

His films Manuscripts Don’t Burn (2013) and A Man Of Integrity (2017) world premiered in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section, winning the Fipresci prize and best film prize, respectively.

Romanian director Emanuel Pârvu will also make his Competition debut with third feature Three Kilometers to the End of the World, about a gay teenager trapped in village where he is ostracized by everyone around him.

In other additions, Alexandre De La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte’s budget French costume-adventure drama The Count of Monte Cristo, starring Pierre Niney as the titular hero, will play Out of Competition.

The titles join 52 titles announced in the festival’s main announcement April 11 listed here. The 2024 edition runs May 14-25.

The new additions are:

COMPETITION

The Most Precious Of Cargoes
Michel Hazanavicius

Three Kilometers to the End of the World
Emanuel Parvu

The Seed Of The Sacred Fig
Mohammad Rasoulof

UN CERTAIN REGARD

When The Light Breaks
Rúnar Rúnarsson

Niki
Céline Sallette 1st film

Flow
Gints Zilbalodis

CANNES PREMIERE

Vivre, Mourir, Renaitre
Gaël Morel

Maria
Jessica Palud

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

Filmlovers! (Spectateurs)
Arnaud Desplechin

Nasty
Tudor Giurgiu

Lula
Oliver Stone

An Unfinished Film
Lou Ye

OUT OF COMPETITION

The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre De La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte

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