If the last 69 years are any indication, in one month many of the year’s best films will begin to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. With the 70th edition kicking off shortly, following the line-up, we now have a handful of debut images from our most-anticipated titles.
First up, above, there’s the debut look at Robert Pattinson in Good Time, the next feature from Heaven Knows What duo Josh and Benny Safdie. A crime drama also starring Jennifer Jason Leigh and Barkhad Abdi, not much else is known about the film, but co-director Josh Safdie had this to say on Instagram:
GOOD TIME, the film we’ve been slaving over for the past 19 months, will world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in the main competition. Here’s a still of #RobertPattinson as Connie Nikas. He and everyone else in the film are incredible. @a24 will release it in the US. This movie couldn’t have happened without many great HARD working people, who know who they are.. Hope we made you proud. (Re: the above picture, for fellow heads: it’s a crop, we shot 2.35 on 35mm)
Following that, we have the first look at another A24 release, Yorgos Lanthimos‘ reunion with Colin Farrell after the The Lobster, titled The Killing of a Sacred Deer, recently dated for November 3. Also starring Nicole Kidman and Alicia Silverstone, the film concerns a surgeon (Farrell) who has taken a teenage boy (Barry Keoghan) under his wing, and the “unthinkable sacrifice” he has to make as his world unravels due to his behavior.
Check it out below, along with new images from the next films from Kornél Mundruczó (White God), Arnaud Desplechin (My Golden Days), Andrey Zvyagintsev (Leviathan), and Sergei Loznitsa.
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos)
Jupiter’s Moon (Kornél Mundruczó)
A young migrant is shot while crossing the border illegally. Under the blow of his wound, Aryan discovers that he now has the power to levitate. Thrown into a refugee camp, he escapes with the help of Dr. Stern who fed the project to exploit his extraordinary secret. The two men fled in search of money and security, pursued by the camp director. Fascinated by the incredible gift of Aryan, Stern decides to focus on a world where miracles are bought.
Ismael’s Ghosts (Arnaud Desplechin)
Ismaël Vuillard makes films. He is in the middle of one about Ivan, an atypical diplomat inspired by his brother. Along with Bloom, his master and father-in-law, Ismaël still mourns the death of Carlotta, twenty years earlier. Yet he has started his life over again with Sylvia. Sylvia is his light. Then Carlotta returns from the dead. Sylvia runs away. Ismaël rejects Carlotta. Driven mad by these ordeals, he abandons the shoot for his family home in Roubaix. There, he lives as a recluse, besieged by his ghosts.
Loveless (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
After Leviathan, Andrey Zvyagintsev once again depicts a brutal and pitiless humanity — fragile, broken — in this uncompromising portrait of the struggles of a loveless family.
A Gentle Creature (Sergei Loznitsa)
A woman lives alone on the outskirts of a village in Russia. One day she receives a parcel she sent to her incarcerated husband, marked ‘return to sender’. Shocked and confused, the woman has no choice but to travel to the prison in a remote region of the country in search of an explanation. So begins the story of a battle against this impenetrable fortress, the prison where the forces of social evil are constantly at work. Braving violence and humiliation, in the face of all opposition, our protagonist embarks on a blind quest for justice.
Cannes Film Festival 2017 begins on May 17.