In lieu of any big new studio movies at this year’s festival, here’s something that resembles a big old one. Andy Garcia has been chipping away for years at this noir-themed passion project, about a haunted Los Angeleno, played by Garcia, who uses his uncanny knack for amateur private investigation to solve crimes and (per his creator) “peel back hidden truths”. The impressively hefty cast includes Brendan Fraser, Bill Murray, Dustin Hoffman, Danny Huston, Robert Patrick and Vicky Krieps; the festival is, no doubt, hoping for as full a red carpet turnout as possible.
The Man I Love
There may be just one American film in this year’s competition – so far, anyway – but it sounds like the dictionary definition of a big swing. The latest project from Ira Sachs (Love is Strange, Passages) is a musical fantasia set amid the 1980s New York Aids crisis, starring Rami Malek, Rebecca Hall, Tom Sturridge and The Bear’s Ebon Moss-Bachrach. Malek’s character is a Downtown artist called Jimmy George, and while we don’t yet know what sort of songs the Bohemian Rhapsody star will be singing, the title strongly hints that George and Ira Gershwin will be in the mix.
Cannes Film Festival runs from May 12 until May 23
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