Cannes Film Festival Director Thierry Frémaux will shortly begin to announce this year’s lineup of titles set for the Croisette at a press conference in Paris. We will be reporting on the announcement here, and you can watch the presser live here.
Pierre Salvadori’s The Electric Kiss (La Vénus électrique) has already been announced as the opening title. Set against the backdrop of the early 20th-century Paris art world, the period drama stars Pio Marmaï, Anaïs Demoustier, Gilles Lellouche, and Vimala Pons.
John Travolta‘s directorial debut, Propeller One-Way, will also screen at the festival before its May 29 launch on Apple TV.
The under-the-radar Apple Original Films project is inspired by the 1997 kids’ book of the same name that Travolta wrote for his son. The mid-length film, whose cast includes his daughter Ella Bleu Travolta, charts a nostalgic journey set in the golden age of aviation: “Young airplane enthusiast Jeff (played by newcomer Clark Shotwell) and his mother (Kelly Eviston-Quinnett) set off on a one-way cross-country odyssey to Hollywood, which transforms a simple flight into the trip of a lifetime. Between airline meals, charming flight attendants (played by Ella Bleu Travolta and Olga Hoffmann), unexpected stopovers, larger-than-life passengers, and a thrilling glimpse at first class, the journey unfolds in moments both magical and unexpected, charting the course for the boy’s future.”
Propeller One-Way will play in the festival’s Premiere Selection in the Debussy Theater at the Palais des Festivals, with Travolta in attendance.
Cannes runs from May 12 to 23.
COMPETITION
The Electric Kiss, Pierre Salvadori
UN CERTAIN REGARD
La más dulce, Laïla Marrakchi
Club Kid, Jordan Firstman
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Jane Schoenbrun
Yesterday the Eye Didn’t Sleep, Rakan Mayasi
Everytime, Sandra Wollner
Meltdown, Manuela Martelli
OUT OF COMPETITION
CANNES PREMIERE
Propeller One-Way, John Travolta
Kokurojo: The Samurai and the Prisoner, Kiyoshi Kurosawa
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
John Lennon: The Last Interview, Steven Soderbergh
Avedon, Ron Howard
Les Survivants du Che, Christophe Réveille
Les Matins Merveilleux – Avril Besson
MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS