Academy Award-winning director Clint Eastwood will present
his newest project, “Changeling,” a thriller starring Angelina Jolie and John
Malkovich, at the 61st edition of the Cannes Film Festival in May, organizers
said Wednesday.
The organizers of the 61st Cannes Film Festival announced
the lineup in
“Changeling” is based on a period thriller from noted writer
J. Michael Straczynski, and tells the story of a woman (Jolie) who suspects
that the child returned to her after a kidnapping is not her own, only to be
thrown into a psychiatric hospital by corrupt officers of the Los Angeles
Police Department.
The story is based on the “Wineville Chicken Murders,” an
infamous kidnapping and murder case that occurred in
“Che” is a four-hour epic on the Cuban revolutionary Che
Guevara, while Kaufman’s “Synecdoche,
Other contenders for this year’s Palme d’Or are German-born Wim
Wenders with “The Palermo Shooting,” Canadian director Atom Egoyan with
“Adoration” and Turkish director
Nuri Bilge Ceylan with “Three Monkeys.”
There are also movies from
The festival is held from May 14 to 25 in the French Riviera
resort.
There are fewer big-name directors than in previous years
and organizers said many of the festival's favorite directors are working on
new movies, reports the Associated Press.
Woody Allen’s “Vicky Christina Barcelona,” with an ensemble cast including Penelope Cruz, Scarlett Johansson and Javier Bardem will be screened out of competition, as will be the fourth installment of the Indiana Jones franchise, “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” directed by Steven Spielberg.