CANNES: The Cannes Film Festival is abuzz with anticipation as Hollywood heavyweights Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese present their highly-anticipated Native American crime epic, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” on the French Riviera.
The star-studded film, which also features Robert De Niro, delves into a series of murders that rocked the wealthy Osage Indians in the 1920s and explores the origins of the FBI.
Following this major premiere, the festival will continue to showcase Hollywood royalty with Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore unveiling their film “May December,” centered around an actress entangled in a tabloid scandal.
Competition for Cannes Film Festival’s top prize
The competition for the festival’s top prize, the Palme d’Or, is intensifying. One film generating early buzz is “The Zone of Interest,” directed by British filmmaker Jonathan Glazer.
This unique and chilling exploration delves into the private life of a Nazi officer stationed at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Glazer commented, “The things that drive these people are familiar. Nice house, nice garden, healthy kids.
How like them are we? How terrifying it would be to acknowledge. What is it that we’re so frightened of understanding?”
Critics have overwhelmingly praised Glazer’s work, with Variety describing it as “chilling and profound, meditative and immersive—a movie that holds human darkness up to the light and examines it as if under a microscope.”
In total, 21 films are competing for the festival’s main prize, with the competition set to conclude on May 27. Previous winners, including Japan’s Hirokazu Kore-eda, Germany’s Wim Wenders, and Britain’s Ken Loach, are among the contenders.
