Lily-Rose Depp, The Weeknd, Margot Robbie… A shower of stars on the Croisette for this second week of the Festival

The race to Golden Palm stay very open at Canneswhere the Festival enters its second week with a series of prestigious directors on the program, including the already palmed Wim Wenders, Nanni Moretti And Ken Loach.

Glamor will not be outdone: Monday, the pop superstar The Weeknd And actress Lily-Rose Depp, daughter of Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis, are announced on the red carpet. They play the main roles of The Idol a highly anticipated series from the director ofEuphoria, Sam Levinson, the first two episodes of which will be shown in world premiere on the Croisette. On the competition side, the jury, which has already been able to see 11 of the 21 films in the running, is about to discover Club Zerothe Austrian Jessica Hausner and Dead leaves by Finn Aki Kaurismaki.

The games remain very open to succeed Without Filter, the scathing comedy about capitalism delivered last year by Swede Ruben Östlund. The latter is the president of the jury for this 76th edition, accompanied in particular by actress Brie Larson (Captain Marvel), the writer Atiq Rahimi or the American actor Paul Dano.

Among the feature films that have made the greatest impression, The Zone of Interest by British filmmaker Jonathan Glazer, is the most chilling: it plunged festival-goers into the “banality of evil” by tracing the everyday life to the quiet appearances of the commander of the Auschwitz extermination camp, Rudolph Höss, and his family. The Chinese Wang Bing with Youth (Spring)his monumental 3:32 fresco alongside migrant workers in factories in China, has also been hailed for his ambition.

A prize for Sandra Hüller?

In a completely different genre, much lighter, the American Todd Haynes is one of the darlings of international critics with May-Decembera murky game of mirrors on the pretenses between two superstars, Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman.

In terms of acting prizes, the German Sandra Hüller has twice impressed Cannes: as the wife of Rudolph Höss in The Zone of Interest and as a widow accused of having killed her husband in Anatomy of a fall, the film by one of the French directors in competition (Justine Triet). Only one film was unanimous against him: Black Flies by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire, a thriller close to New York paramedics, starring Tye Sheridan and Sean Pennbut considered heavy and full of cliches.

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After a first straight line marked by the out-of-competition presentation of event films, including the return of Harrison Ford in the last IndianaJones And the new Martin Scorsese with Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, ten films will still try their luck for the Palme. Among them, three already awarded directors: the German Wim Wenders, the Italian Nanni Moretti and the British king of social chronicle Ken Loach, who will even try to be the first to win a third historic Palme, after The wind picks up (2006) and I, Daniel Blake (2016).

The return of French director Catherine Breillat is also highly anticipated, as is the star cast of the latest Wes Anderson, which promises to le the flashes on the carpet with Jason Schwartzman, Tilda Swinton or Margot Robbie. The winners are expected on Saturday evening.