Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Lawrence and Tom Cruise to hit the red carpet

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Paul Mescal plays a beginner singer who creates a friendship with Josh O’Connor music student in the history of sound

Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Lawrence and Tom Cruise are among the Hollywood stars who are expected to hit the red carpet at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, which begins on Tuesday.

Cannes is one of the most prestigious festivals in the film calendar and premieres productions that often continue to win awards and recognition.

Here are five things to be careful about for the French Riviera.

1. First Gaze of the Oscar applicants next year

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Jennifer Lawrence Stars in the new film by director Lin Ramsay Die My Love

In recent years, Cannes has recovered as a major prize contenders.

Anorus won Palme d’Or in Cannes last May before continuing Earn the best photo of this year’s OscarsS Four of the last five winners Palme d’Or were subsequently nominated for the best photo.

This year’s jury is led by the French screen star Juliet Binoche and includes fellow actors Khali Berry and Jeremy Strong.

Palme d’Or contenders this year include the adaptation of Scottish director director Lin Ramsay of Ariana’s novel Harwich Die My Love, which plays Lawrence and Robert Pattinson.

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O’Connor appears as an unemployed carpenter turned a thief in the master

English actor Josh O’Connor – known for depicting a tennis player in competitors and Prince Charles in the crown – stars in two films in competition, including the story of the sound against Paul Mescal, and the mastery playing an amateur art thief.

Wes Anderson’s new film The Phoenician Scheme has the most star-studded squad in Cannes this year, such as Johansson, Benicio del Toro, Tom Hanks and Benedict Cumberbatch, as well as Riz Ahmed, Brian Cranston and Richard Ayad.

Joaquin Phoenix and Emma Stone appear in Edigton, a dark comedy from the pandemic era west of Ari Aster.

The Nouvelle Lague by director Richard Linklater is described as a storytelling story about the creation of the classic shortness of breath from 1960 by Jean Luke Godard, in the same style and spirit as the original.

2. Hollywood stars become directors

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Scarlett Johansson Stars in one movie in Cannes and directed another

The black widow star Johansson has stepped behind the camera and will premise her directorial debut, Eleanor the Great, about a 94-year-old woman who is unexpectedly brought into the spotlight.

American actress Christine Stewart will also bring a film that has directed – the chronology of water is adapted by the memoir of writer Lydia Yuknavic of the same name.

Meanwhile, British star Harris Dickinson is another actor moving behind the camera, with Urchin telling the story of a rough sleeping man in London, fighting to turn his life.

All their films will compete in the secondary UNS of the festival.

3. Big names in the spotlight light

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Elsewhere, Hollywood legend Robert de Niro will gather the honorary Palm d’or.

Spike Lee’s fifth movie with Denzel Washington, the highest 2 most low, will premiere from the competition. This is a rethinking of Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa in 1963. High and Low, “played on the middle streets of modern New York.”

Jody Foster plays a psychiatrist who investigates the obvious murder of one of his patients in Vie Privée, a comedy in French, which is also shown by competition.

And Cruz will attend the premiere of the final contribution of the mission: impossible … if he chooses to accept the invitation.

4. Gaza’s documentaries

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Iranian filmmaker and activist Sepide Farsi made a documentary about the late Palestinian photographer Fatima Hasunya

Remarkable documentaries this year include put your soul by hand and walk, for the Palestinian War, Photo Journalist Fatima Hasuna, who was killed with his family in an Israeli hit at his home in Gaza last month – the day after the festival announced its composition.

Anger because of her death increased the interest in characteristic.

Another movie, once in gas, from Palestinian twins Tarzan and Arab Nasser, will be shown in the section for a certain attitude.

Other documentaries in the lineup include a hot-awaited movie about Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, a six billion dollar man who was withdrawn from the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year.

Meanwhile, a documentary about the U2 Bono frontman is also on the festival bill, along with one about 1984. The novelist George Orwell.

5. #METOO and more

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A judge will give the sentence in the Gerard Depardo sexual assault on Tuesday Tuesday

Discovery day can be overshadowed The arrival of the sentence in the sexual assault of Gerard Depardo.

The international star of French cinema at 76 was accused of attacking over two women in a movie set in 2021, which he denied.

The issue of alleged sexual abuse in the film industry is a hot topic – a French parliamentary investigation criticized the “endemic” abuse last month, while on Monday screen legend Brigit Bardot defended two accused actors, including Depardieu, saying that they should be allowed to “continue their lives.”

These are not the only external events that will make their presence on La Croisette.

Movie stars and deals with industry can also have a word or two to say on the red carpet about US President Donald Trump’s plan to They impose 100% tariffs on foreign films.

Recently, the French Minister of Culture Rahida dates said that the imposition of any such tariffs would lead to the punishment “the US industry to be punished, not ours.”

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