Cannes Competition Screenings - Friday May 19
Be sure to find out when to catch the latest films in the competition. Both Feature Films and Certain Regard Films are being screened today at multiple times at multiple theaters. Wonderstruck makes another appearance today as well as the industrialized meat critique, Okja.
Okja // Bong Joon Ho (In Competition – Feature Films)
8:00 – Grand Théâtre Lumière
19:00 – Grand Théatre Lumière
For 10 idyllic years, young Mija has been caretaker and constant companion to Okja—a massive animal and an even bigger friend—at her home in the mountains of South Korea. But that changes when a family-owned multinational conglomerate Mirando Corporation takes Okja for themselves and transports her to New York, where image obsessed and self-promoting CEO Lucy Mirando has big plans for Mija’s dearest friend.
With no particular plan but single-minded in intent, Mija sets out on a rescue mission, but her already daunting journey quickly becomes more complicated when she crosses paths with disparate groups of capitalists, demonstrators and consumers, each battling to control the fate of Okja…while all Mija wants to do is bring her friend home.
Jupiter’s Moon // Kornél Mundruczó (In Competition – Feature Films)
12:00 – Grand Théâtre Lumière
14:00 – Soxiantième Theatre
22:00 – Grand Théatre Lumière
A young immigrant is shot down while illegally crossing the border. Terrified and in shock, wounded Aryan can now mysteriously levitate at will. Thrown into a refugee camp, he is smuggled out by Dr Stern, intent on exploiting his extraordinary secret. Pursued by enraged camp director Laszlo, the fugitives remain on the move in search of safety and money. Inspired by Aryan's amazing powers, Stern takes a leap of faith in a world where miracles are trafficked for small change…
LERD (A Man of Integrity) // Mohammad Rasoulof (Un Certain Regard)
11:00 – Debussy Theatre
16:30 – Debussy Theatre
Reza (35), having distanced himself from the ur- ban quagmire, leads a simple life along with his wife and sole son, somewhere in a remote village in Northern Iran. He spends his days working in his gold fish farm. Nearby, a private company with close links to the government and local authori- ties, has taken control of nearly every aspect of the regional life. Its shareholders, accumulating wealth, power and economic rents, have been pushing local farmers and small owners to dilap- idate their belongings, farms and estates, to the benefit of the Company’s influential net- work and its monopoly. It is under their pressure that many villagers have them- selves become local rings of the larger network of corruption.
Aala Kaf Ifrit (Beauty and the Dogs) // Kaouther Ben Hania (Un Certain Regard)
14:00 – Debussy Theatre
22:15 – Debussy Theatre
During a student party, Mariam, a young Tunisian woman, meets the mysterious Youssef and leaves with him.
A long night will begin, during which she’ll have to fight for her rights and her dignity. But how can Justice be made when it lies on the side of the tormentors?
Nelyubov (Loveless) // Andrey Zvyagintsev (In Competition – Feature Films)
10:00 – Soixantième Theatre
Boris and Zhenya are going through a divorce. Arguing constantly, and in the process of selling their apartment, they are already preparing for their new lives: Boris with his younger, pregnant girlfriend and Zhenya with the wealthy lover who is keen to get married. Neither seems interested in their 12-year-old son Alyosha. Until he disappears.
Wonderstruck // Todd Haynes (In Competition – Feature Films)
16:45 – Soxantième Theatre
Based on Brian Selznick's critically acclaimed novel, Ben and Rose are children from two different eras who secretly wish their lives were different. Ben longs for the father he has never known, while Rose dreams of a mysterious actress whose life she chronicles in a scrapbook. When Ben discovers a puzzling clue in his home and Rose reads an enticing headline in the newspaper, both children set out on quests to find what they are missing that unfold with mesmerizing symmetry.
