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Cannes is looking pretty Canadian this year with David Cronenberg, Guy Maddin features

Cannes is looking pretty Canadian this year with David Cronenberg, Guy Maddin features

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Thursday, May 16, 2024 3:08 PM GMT

The Cannes Film Festival opened Tuesday with the unveiling of Greta Gerwig's jury selection and the presentation of an honorary Palme d'Or — the festival's most prestigious prize — for Meryl Streep as the French Riviera spectacular kicked off its 77th edition.

But along with buzzy films from Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, to Kevin Costner's American Horizon and Yargos Lanthimos's Kinds of Kindness, Cannes is looking particularly Canadian this year. In the largest showing since 2012 — which saw three features and a short film from the country in the official selection — this year's festival is largely bolstered by productions and artists from the Great White North.

After his 2022 Crimes of the Future inspired Cannes walkouts and a seven-minute standing ovation (somewhat obligatory at the festival), body horror specialist David Cronenberg is headed back to the French film showcase. This time he is debuting The Shrouds, a Guy Pearce, Vincent Cassell, Diane Kruger and Sandrine Holt-led horror about a recently bereaved husband who invents a way to observe, and commune with, the dead.

The film saw its first teaser trailer release earlier this week. In an interview with Variety, Cronenberg said the narrative of the film parallels his own life.

"I was writing this film while experiencing the grief of the loss of my wife, who died seven years ago," he said. "It was an exploration for me because it was not just a technical exercise, it was an emotional exercise."

With Cannes becoming more and more an Oscars bellwether — as Palme d'Or winners Parasite, Triangle of Sadness, and Anatomy of a Fall went on to see wins at the Academy Awards —  Cronenberg's buzzy latest release at the festival could finally spell Academy success for the Toronto director.

Though Cronenberg is highly awarded — even winning the Cannes jury prize back in 1996 with Crash — he has never been nominated at the arguably horror-averse Academy Awards, which has only considered six such movies for best picture. 

And while not made by a Canadian director, Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice still represents a shot at Cannes' highest prize for the country. Following the former U.S. president's early years as a New York real estate mogul, the Ali Abbasi-directed film stars Sebastian Stan as Trump and is a Canadian majority co-production with Ireland and Denmark. 

The film boasts a considerable supporting cast of Canadian talent, from St. Catharine's Joe Pingue as mobster Tony Salerno to Toronto's Mark Rendall as Trump ally Roger Stone and young Emily Mitchell of Woman Talking fame playing Ivanka Trump. 

If it were to win the Palme d'Or, it would be the first Canadian film to do so.

Another tangential piece of Canadiana is Paul Schrader's Oh, Canada. Despite the name, the film is not actually all that related to the country behind the lens.

On paper though, there are many connections: adapted from Russell Banks' novel Foregone, Oh, Canada follows a draft-dodging documentary filmmaker (Euphoria's Jacob Elordi in his younger years, Richard Gere as an older man) as he flees to Canada during the Vietnam war. 

A poster for the film was released on Wednesday. 

And heading up a strong Winnipeg contingent at the festival, the Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson-helmed Rumours is appearing out-of-competition at the festival, meaning it has been selected for a gala screening but won't compete for the main prize. 

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