The 75th Cannes Film Festival - Cannes, France, on May 16, 2022. A general view shows the Croisette on the eve of the openingCANNES, France - The Cannes Film Festival is gearing up for a bumper 75th-anniversary edition with a selection of big Hollywood names, buzzy newcomers and previous Palme d'Or winners – a splashy return even as the conflict in Ukraine looms over festivities.
This year, the parties are back and Hollywood heavyweights will include Tom Cruise's Top Gun Maverick – bringing the star to Cannes for the first time in three decades – as well as Baz Luhrmann's Elvis biopic, starring Austin Butler and Tom Hanks. David Cronenberg will mark his return to horror films with Crimes of the Future, featuring Viggo Mortensen, Kristen Stewart and Lea Seydoux.
The festival opens on Tuesday with a zombie film, Final cut, by French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius, who changed the title from Z, like Z to strip out a reference to the letter which has become associated with the war in Ukraine.The festival banned official Russian delegations from the event but will feature Tchaikovski's Wife by exiled Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov, who has been outspoken about the war.
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