The line-up for the 2017 Cannes Film Festival has been announced, with Colin Farrell starring in two major new films receiving their World Premiere at the world's most prestigious film showcase.
The Killing of a Sacred Deer marks a reunion between Colin Farrell and director Yorgos Lanthimos, having previously worked together on The Lobster, which was awarded the highly coveted Jury Prize at Cannes in 2015. Farrell stars as Steven; a charismatic surgeon forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to fall apart when the behaviour of a teenage boy he has taken under his wing takes a sinister turn. Nicole Kidman stars as the wife of Farrell's character, alongside Alicia Silverstone and rising Irish star Barry Keoghan, in the film which is produced by Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe of Dublin-based Element Pictures.
The film is co-written by Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou, who, alongside Guiney and Lowe all worked on 2015's The Lobster - Lanthimos' critically acclaimed film set in a futuristic dystopia. Filmed in Dublin and Kerry, The Lobster was an arthouse hit worldwide, winning Farrell his best reviews in years; the film was also nominated earlier this year for a 2017 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
Farrell and Kidman also star in another competition entry at this year's 70th Cannes festival, which kicks off on May 17th - Sofia Coppola's gothic US civil war drama The Beguiled.
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Elsewhere, the impressive Cannes line-up features new films from the cream of international filmmakers, including Todd Haynes, Michael Haneke, Jane Campion, Noah Baumbach, Michel Hazanavicius and Bong Joon-ho, as well as Kristen Stewart's directorial debut Come Swim and a special screening of David Lynch's eagerly anticipated new series of Twin Peaks, already described as a movie in 18 parts.
The Cannes line-up, in full:
OPENING NIGHT FILM
Ismael’s Ghosts, dir: Arnaud Desplechin (Out of Competition)
70th ANNIVERSARY EVENTS
Top of the Lake: China Girl, dirs: Jane Campion & Ariel Kleiman
24 Frames, dir: Abbas Kiarostami
Twin Peaks, dir: David Lynch
Come Swim, dir: Kristen Stewart
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
An Inconvenient Sequel, dirs: Ronni Cohen & Jon Shenk
12 Jours, dir: Raymond Depardon
They, dir: Anahita Ghazinizadeh
Keul-Le-Eo-Ui-Ka-Me-La (Clair’s Camera), dir: Hong Sangsoo
Promised Land, dir: Eugene Jarecki
Napalm, dir: Claude Lanzmann
Demons In Paradise, dir: Jude Ratman
Sea Sorrow, dir: Vanessa Redgrave
MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
AK-Nyeo (The Villainess), dir: Jung Byung-gil
Bulhandang (The Merciless), dir: Byun Sung-hyun
Prayer Before Dawn, dir: Jean-Stephane Sauvaire
OUT OF COMPETITION
Mugen Non Junin, (Blade Of The Immortal), dir: Takashi Miike
How To Talk To Girls At Parties, dir: John Cameron Mitchell
Visages, Villages, dir: Agnes Varda & JR
UN CERTAIN REGARD
Barbara, dir: Mathieu Amalric (Opening Film)
La Novia Del Desierto (The Desert Bride), dirs: Cecilia Atan & Valeria Pivato
Tesnota (Closeness), dir: Kantemir Balagov
Aala Kaf Ifrit (Beauty And The Dogs), dir: Kaouther Ben Hania
L’Atélier, dir: Laurent Cantet
Fortunata (Lucky), dir: Sergio Castellitto
Las Hijas De Abril (April’s Daughter), dir: Michel Franco
Sanpo Suru Shinryakusha (Before We Vanish), dir: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Lerd (Dregs), dir: Mohammad Rasoulof
En Attendant Les Hirondelles (The Nature of Time), dir: Karim Moussaoui
Apres La Guerre (After The War), dir: Annarita Zambrano
Wind River, dir: Taylor Sheridan
Jeune Femme, dir: Leonor Serraille
Western, dir: Valeska Grisebach
Posoki (Directions), dir: Stephan Komandarev
Out, dir: Gyorgy Kristof
COMPETITION
Loveless, dir: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Good Time, dirs: Benny and Josh Safdie
You Were Never Really Here, dir: Lynne Ramsay
L’Amant Double, dir: Francois Ozon
Jupiter’s Moon, dir: Kornel Mundruczo
The Killing Of A Sacred Deer, dir: Yorgos Lanthimos
The Day After, dir: Hang Sangsoo
Redoubtable, dir: Michel Hazanavicius
Wonderstruck, dir: Todd Haynes
Happy End, dir: Michael Haneke
Rodin, dir: Jacques Doillon
The Beguiled, dir: Sofia Coppola
In the Fade, dir: Fatih Akin
The Meyerowitz Stories, dir: Noah Baumbach
Okja, dir: Bong Joon-ho
120 Battements Par Minute, dir: Robin Campillo
Hikari (Radiance), dir: Naomi Kawase
A Gentle Creature, dir: Sergei Loznitsa
