Midnight in Paris
Woody Allen, once again, ditches his beloved New York City for this romantic comedy featuring Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams and Marion Cotillard. The film opens the festival on May 11.
The Skin I Live In
In Pedro Almodovar's latest, Antonio Banderas stars as a revenge-seeking surgeon following the rape of his daughter. It marks the first time one of the director's films has screened at Cannes before premiering in his native country of Spain.
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
The latest installment of the popular film franchise with Johnny Depp and Penélope Cruz will premiere during the festival, but is not competing.
Tree of Life
Brad Pitt and Sean Penn star in acclaimed director Terrence Malick's 1950s period piece revolving around a tense father-son relationship and its effect upon the child's adult life.
Martha Marcy May Marlene
U.S. director Sean Durkin makes his feature debut with this flick starring Elizabeth Olsen as a woman looking to escape a cult.
Restless
Henry Hopper and Schuyler Fisk, the offspring of Dennis Hopper and Sissy Spacek respectively, star in Gus Van Sant's tale of a terminally ill girl in love with a boy who has a thing for funerals.
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Le Gamin Au Vélo (Set Me Free)
Belgian codirectors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne serve up this tale about an abandoned boy who is looked after by an unqualified childcare provider.
The Beaver
Not surprisingly, there's a lot of talk surrounding this Jodie Foster drama that's screening out of competition seeing how it stars headling-grabbing actor Mel Gibson as a man who's been so traumatized by life, he begins to communicate via a hand puppet.
This Must Be the Place
Sean Penn channels his inner Robert Smith as a former rock star on the hunt for a Nazi war criminal who tortured his father in a concentration camp.
Sleeping Beauty
From Down Under, director Julia Leigh gives the classic fairy tale the erotic treatment.
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Oscar winner Tilda Swinton teams up with John C. Reilly in this gripping drama out of the U.K. about a mother coming to terms with her son's involvement in a high-school massacre.
Melancholia
From Dancing in the Dark director Lars Von Trier comes a film costarring Kirsten Dunst and Alexander Skarsgård as newlyweds dealing with typical married life stuff. You know, like the the fact that the Earth is on a collision course with another planet.
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