Cannes Film Festival unveiled, Thursday April 11, 2024, the official selection for its 77th edition. Among more than 2000 feature films viewed, 19 were selected for official competition.

Major fact of this 2024 vintage: the remarkable return of several giants of the 7th art, who made the Croisette famous, including the illustrious Francis Ford Coppola, whose general delegate of the Cannes Festival, Thierry Frémaux, welcomed the came to Cannes, 50 years after “The conversation”, which earned him his first Palme d’Or in 1974: “Francis Ford Coppola is therefore back in Cannes, with this film of which almost all of you already know the title, since it is called ”Megalopolis” […] It’s The film that Francis has wanted to make for a very, very long time. And we are obviously very happy that he did us the honor of coming to present this film at Cannes. Cannes is dear to his heart. But he is dear to ours, in our hearts.”