Two Palme d’Or winners, Cristian Mungiu and Hirokazu Kore-eda, are competing for the top award once more at the 79th Cannes Film Festival, which opens on Tuesday night with Pierre Salvadori’s La Venus Electrique. They are surrounded by strong competitors hoping to win the trophy for the first time. The two most well-known ones are Asghar Farhadi’s second French film, Parallel Tales, and Pedro Almodovar’s Bitter Christmas.
The two Cannes Competition regulars, Mungiu (who won the Palme d’Or in 2007 for 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days) and Kore-eda (whose Shoplifters won the prize in 2018), will start as front-runners when the jury, chaired by South Korean director Park Chan-wook, starts viewing the 21 films in the competition. Mungiu’s Fjord is the Romanian-American actor Sebastian Stan and Norwegian actress Renate Reinsve, a new genre for the Japanese director. Both Kore-eda, whose Shoplifters won the prize in 2018, and Mungiu, whose 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days won the Palme d’Or in 2007, are returning to the competition with pictures that are unlike anything they have ever produced.
The Romanian filmmaker Mungiu’s Fjord is both his first English-language picture and the first to be shot entirely outside of his homeland. Sheep in the Box, a new genre for Japanese director Kore-eda, is a science fiction movie. In Fjord, Norwegian actress Renate Reinsve and Romanian-American actor Sebastian Stan play a couple whose behavior with their kids draws harsh criticism after they relocate to the wife’s isolated Norwegian village.
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