Reuters :
The Cannes Film Festival will open on its 75th anniversary next month with the screening of a
film about zombies, Z (Comme Z) by Michel Hazanavicius, director of award-winning film The Artist. “It’s a zombie comedy that evokes passion for cinema,” festival director Thierry Fremaux told a news conference recently, recalling that the 2019 event had kicked off with a film from Jim Jarmusch on the same theme. The festival runs from May 17 to 28 and will feature heavy-hitters including Tom Cruise’s Top Gun sequel and an Elvis biopic by Baz Luhrmann starring Austin Butler and Tom Hanks. Organizers have said the competition will include James Gray’s Armageddon Time, a drama with Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong and Anthony Hopkins and a screening of Three Thousand Years of Longing by George Miller, with a cast including Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton.
