As the film festival’s 72nd edition begins, disputes surrounding gender parity, Netflix and Quentin Tarantino won’t go away
When Thierry Frémaux, artistic director of the Cannes film festival, held the traditional press conference in April to announce the lineup of the 72nd edition, one big name was conspicuous by its absence. Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, the auteur director’s take on late-60s, Manson-traumatised Los Angeles, was, Frémaux said, “not ready”; its failure to meet the deadline would be a big loss for the festival, depriving it of one of its favourite master directors and the immense firepower of its cast – Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie and Al Pacino.
Fortunately for all concerned, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood did manage to make the party: Frémaux was able to announce its inclusion a few days later, saying that Tarantino “has not left the editing room in four months”. Having won the Palme d’Or, the festival’s highest award, in 1994 for his second feature, Pulp Fiction, Tarantino will be able to join the other big beasts in Cannes, including the UK’s Ken Loach (with gig economy drama Sorry We Missed You), Spain’s Pedro Almodóvar (film industry memoir Pain and Glory) and the Dardenne brothers from Belgium with radicalisation drama The Young Ahmed. A Hidden Life, a new film by another American auteur, Terrence Malick, about anti-Nazi activist Franz Jägerstätter, is also due to premiere at the festival, but Malick has been a famously elusive figure for decades and is not likely to attend.
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