Cannes 2014: Competition Titles Announced, Including THE ROVER And MAPS TO THE STARS

OPENER

Grace Of Monaco, directed by Olivier Dahan

COMPETITION

Adieu Au Langage (Goodbye To Language), directed by Jean-Luc Godard

Captives, directed by Atom Egoyan

Deux Jours, Une Nuit (Two Days, One Night), directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne

Foxcatcher, directed by Bennett Miller

Futatsume No Mado (Still The Water), directed by Naomi Kawase

The Homesman, directed by Tommy Lee Jones

Jimmy’s Hall, directed by Ken Loach

Kis Uykusu (Winter Sleep), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Leviathan, directed by Andrei Zvyagintsev

Maps To The Stars, directed by David Cronenberg

La Meraviglie, directed by Alice Rohrwacher

Mommy, directed by Xavier Dolan

Mr. Turner, directed by Mike Leigh

Relatos Salvajes (Wild Tales), directed by Damian Szifron

Saint Laurent, directed by Bertrand Bonello

Sils Maria, directed by Olivier Assayas

The Search, directed by Michel Hazanavicius

Timbuktu, Abderrahmane Sissako

UN CERTAIN REGARD

Amour Fou, directed by Jessica Hausner

Bird People, directed by Pascale Ferran

La Chambre Bleu (The Blue Room), directed by Mathieu Amalric

Charlie’s Country, directed by Rolf de Heer

Dohee-ya (A Girl At My Door), directed by July Jung

Eleanor Rigby, directed by Ned Benson

Fantasia, directed by Wang Chao

Harcheck Mi Headro (Away From His Absence), directed by Keren Yedaya

Hermosa Juventud (Beautiful Youth), directed by Jaime Rosales

Incompresa (Misunderstood), directed by Asia Argento

Jauja, directed by Lisandro Alonso

Lost River, directed by Ryan Gosling

Party Girl, directed by Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis 

Run, directed by Philippe Lacote

The Salt Of The Earth, directed by Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado

Snow In Paradise, directed by Andrew Hulme

Titli, directed by Kanu Behl

Turist, directed by Ruben Ostlund

OUT OF COMPETITION


Coming Home, directed by Zhang Yimou


How To Train Your Dragon 2, directed by Dean DeBlois

MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS


Pyo Jeok (The Target), directed by Yoon Hong-seung (a.k.a. Chang)


The Rover, directed by David Michod


The Salvation, directed by Kristian Levring

SPECIAL SCREENINGS


Caricaturistes – Fantassins De La Démocratie (Cartoonists - Foot Soldiers Of Democracy), directed by Stéphanie Valloatto


Eau Argentée, directed by Mohammed Ossama


Maidan, directed by Sergei Loznitsa


Les Ponts De Sarajevo (The Bridges Of Sarajevo), directed by Aida Begic, Leonardo Di Costanzo, Jean-Luc Godard, Kamen Kalev, Isild Le Besco, Sergei Loznitsa, Vincenzo Marra, Ursula Meier, Vladimir Perisic, Cristi Puiu, Marc Recha, Angela Schanelec, Teresa Villaverde 
 Red Army, directed by Gabe Polsky

While it’s too early to make any meaningful connections based on this year’s crop, one thing that does stick out is the sheer quantity of English language films. The sun may long ago have set on the British Empire, but Old Etonians can take pride in The Anglosphere’s strong showing at this year’s fest. UK heavyweights Mike Leigh and Ken Loach will return with the painter biopic Mr. Turner and the political drama Jimmy’s Hall respectively, while Australian director David Michod’s post-apocalyptic The Rover will premiere as a midnight screening, and New Zealand’s very greatest director Jane Campion (who else did you expect?) will serve as Jury President.

Canada, both English and French, makes an extremely impressive showing this year. Gosling aside, Toronto boys Atom Egoyan and David Cronenberg will premiere their latest films in the Official Competition with The Captive and Maps To The Stars, and so will Montreal’s own Xavier Dolan, competing for the Palme d’Or for the very first time with his film Mommy.

Keeping with firsts, French directors Michel Hazanavicius and Olivier Assayas will make their English language debuts by looking to Hollywood; Hazanavicius with his remake of Fred Zinnemann’s The Search, and Assayas with his fading actress psychodrama Sils Maria.

And Hazanavicius, it seems, isn't the only Competition director evoking Zinnemann. At the press conference today, festival director Thierry Fremaux described the Dardenne Brothers' Two Days, One Night as a kind of "modern High Noon; a contemporary Belgian western", so there you go.