Stars hit the Cannes Film Festival: Five things to look out for

Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Lawrence and Tom Cruise are among the Hollywood stars who are expected to deed the reddish carpet astatine this year's Cannes Film Festival, which starts connected Tuesday.

Cannes is 1 of the astir prestigious festivals successful the movie calendar, and gives premieres to productions that often spell connected to gain awards and acclaim.

Here are 5 things to support a captious oculus retired for connected the French Riviera.

In caller years, Cannes has re-established itself arsenic the main launchpad for grant contenders.

Anora won the Palme d'Or astatine Cannes past May earlier going connected to win champion representation astatine the this year's Oscars. Four of the past 5 Palme d'Or winners person subsequently been nominated for champion picture.

This year's assemblage is led by French surface prima Juliette Binoche and includes chap actors Halle Berry and Jeremy Strong.

Contenders for the Palme d'Or this twelvemonth see Scottish manager Lynne Ramsay's adaptation of Ariana Harwicz's caller Die My Love, which stars Lawrence and Robert Pattinson.

English histrion Josh O'Connor - known for portraying a tennis subordinate successful Challengers and Prince Charles successful The Crown - stars successful 2 films successful competition, including The History of Sound other Paul Mescal, and The Mastermind, playing an amateur creation thief.

Wes Anderson's caller movie The Phoenician Scheme has the astir star-studded line-up astatine Cannes this year, with Johansson, Benicio Del Toro, Tom Hanks and Benedict Cumberbatch each featuring, arsenic good arsenic Riz Ahmed, Bryan Cranston and Richard Ayoade.

Joaquin Phoenix and Emma Stone look successful Eddington, a pandemic-era acheronian drama Western from Ari Aster.

Director Richard Linklater's Nouvelle Vague is described arsenic telling the communicative of the making of Jean Luc Godard's 1960 classical Breathless, successful the aforesaid benignant and tone arsenic the original.

Black Widow prima Johansson has stepped down the camera and volition premiere her directorial debut, Eleanor the Great, astir a 94-year-woman who is unexpectedly thrust into the spotlight.

Fellow US histrion Kristin Stewart volition besides bring a movie she has directed - The Chronology of Water is adapted from writer Lidia Yuknavitch's memoir of the aforesaid name.

Meanwhile, British prima Harris Dickinson is different histrion moving down the camera, with Urchin telling the communicative of a unsmooth sleeper successful London who struggles to crook his beingness around.

Their films volition each vie successful the festival's secondary Un Certain Regard strand.

Elsewhere, Hollywood fable Robert De Niro volition cod the honorary Palme d'Or.

Spike Lee's 5th movie with Denzel Washington, Highest 2 Lowest, volition get its premiere retired of competition. It's a reinterpretation of Japanese film-maker Akira Kurosawa's 1963 transgression thriller High and Low, "played retired connected the mean streets of modern time New York City".

Jodie Foster plays a psychiatrist who investigates the evident execution of 1 of her patients successful Vie Privée (A Private Life), a French-language drama that is besides being screened retired of competition.

And Cruise volition be the premiere of the last instalment of Mission: Impossible... should helium take to judge the invitation.

Notable documentaries this twelvemonth see Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk, astir Palestinian warfare photojournalist Fatima Hassouna, who was killed on with her household successful an Israeli onslaught connected her location successful Gaza past period - connected the time aft the festival announced its line-up.

The choler implicit her decease has accrued involvement successful the feature.

Another film, Once Upon a Time In Gaza, by Palestinian twins Tarzan and Arab Nasser, volition beryllium shown successful the Un Certain Regard section.

Other documentaries successful the line-up see a hotly-awaited movie astir WikiLeaks laminitis Julian Assange, The Six-Billion-Dollar Man, which was pulled from the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year.

Meanwhile, a documentary astir U2 frontman Bono is besides connected the festival bill, alongside 1 astir 1984 novelist George Orwell.

The opening time could beryllium overshadowed by the accomplishment of the verdict successful Gerard Depardieu's intersexual battle trial.

The planetary prima of French cinema, 76, was accused of assaulting 2 women connected a film-set successful 2021, which helium denies.

The contented of alleged intersexual unit successful the movie manufacture is simply a blistery taxable - a French parliamentary enquiry criticised "endemic" maltreatment past month, portion connected Monday surface fable Brigitte Bardot defended 2 accused actors, including Depardieu, saying they should beryllium allowed to "get connected with their lives".

Those aren't the lone outer events that volition marque their beingness felt connected La Croisette .

Film stars and manufacture deal-makers whitethorn besides person a connection oregon 2 to accidental connected the reddish carpet astir US President Donald Trump's program to impose 100% tariffs connected foreign-made films.

French Culture Minister Rachida Dati precocious said the imposition of immoderate specified tariffs would pb to "the American manufacture being penalised, not ours".