Wes Anderson, Thomas Vinterberg, and Naomi Kawase are among the first directors whose films have been selected to receive the “Cannes 2020 Label”, according to Variety. While the festival was canceled this year, the artistic director of the event, Thierry Frémaux and his selection committee, nevertheless insisted on "rewarding" certain important films.
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Wes Anderson, who competed at Cannes with his Moonrise Kingdom in 2012, is therefore part of the selection with The French Dispatch , his ode to journalism, with Bill Murray, Timothée Chalamet and Owen Wilson, among others.
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In total, the label will consist of 50 films, which will be released on June 3. The films chosen will all be films that have already entered the Official Selection or for Critics' Week and the Un Certain Regard competition. Among the other directors to have accepted the label, we find François Ozon, with Summer 85 and Apichatpong Weerasethakul for Memoria .
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This evening should have been the Palmarès. For your support, your tributes, your retrospectives & special programming, your memories, thoughts, drawings & your declarations of love… THANK YOU 🙏✨! You made a beautiful 73rd edition! And see you soon for more! # Cannes2020 ----- This evening should have been the one of the Awards Ceremony. For your support, tributes, retrospectives and special programming, memories, thoughts, drawings and declarations of love…: THANK YOU 🙏✨! You did a very nice 73rd edition! And stay tuned with # Cannes2020!
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Obviously, this Cannes Label will never compensate for the loss of exposure of a media and glamorous fortnight such as the festival, and certain highly anticipated films, like Annette by Leos Carax, or Benedetta by Paul Vehoeven, will see their releases postponed in order to be able to officially compete in the 2021 edition.
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