Cannes Film Festival line-up: Blockbusters with Indiana Jones, Wes Anderson's Asteroid City

The Cannes Film Festival, which will kick off Tuesday , is such a colossal extravaganza that taking measure of its ups and downs is notoriously difficult. It’s a showcase of the world’s best cinema. It’s a red-carpet spectacular. It’s a French Riviera hive of deal-making.

Last year’s festival, a banner one by most judgments, produced three Oscar best-picture nominees , again proving Cannes as the premiere global launching pad for films big and small.This year’s festival is headlined by a pair of marquee premieres: Martin Scorsese’s Osage Nation 1920s epic Killers Of The Flower Moon, with Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, and James Mangold’s Indiana Jones And The Dial of Destiny, starring Harrison Ford in his final performance as the character.

This image released by Apple TV+ shows Lily Gladstone and Leonardo DiCaprio in Killers Of The Flower Moon. The festival, running through May 27, will unspool against the backdrop of labour unrest on both sides of the Atlantic. France has been beset in recent months by protests over pension reforms, including raising the retirement age. In the US, screenwriters are on strike to seek better pay in the streaming era.The prospect of a prolonged work stoppage could potentially drive up prices for finished films at Cannes, the world’s top movie market.

There’s also the upcoming HBO series The Idol, from Euphoria filmmaker Sam Levinson starring the Weeknd and Lily-Rose Depp; Firebrand with Alicia Vikander as Catherine Parr and Judd Law as Tudor King Henry VIII; and the Pixar movie Elemental, which closes the festival.Steve McQueen, the 12 Years Of Slave filmmaker, will debut the longest film playing at Cannes and one of its most thought-provoking.

Argentine filmmaker Rodrigo Moreno, 50, will be making his first trip to Cannes with The Delinquents, a heist drama sprinkled with existentialism and cinematic flourishes. It's one of the highlights of the Un Certain Regard section.

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