2017 Cannes Film Festival
The 70th Cannes Film Festival took place from 17 to 28 May 2017, in Cannes, France. Spanish film director and screenwriter Pedro Almodóvar was the president of the jury for the festival and Italian actress Monica Bellucci hosted the opening and closing ceremonies. Ismael's Ghosts, directed by French director Arnaud Desplechin, was the opening film for the festival.
Official poster of the 70th Cannes Film Festival featuring a still of Italian actress Claudia Cardinale at a rooftop in Rome in 1959
Pedro Almodóvar, Main competition jury president
Uma Thurman, Un Certain Regard jury president
Sandrine Kiberlain, Caméra d'or jury president
Ismael's Ghosts is a 2017 French drama film directed by Arnaud Desplechin, starring Mathieu Amalric, Marion Cotillard, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Louis Garrel, Alba Rohrwacher, László Szabó, and Hippolyte Girardot. The film follows a filmmaker whose life is sent into a tailspin, just as he is about to start shooting a new film, by the return of his wife, who disappeared 20 years ago and whom he thought dead. Ismael's Ghosts premiered at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival as the opening film.
Film poster
From left to right: Mathieu Amalric, Arnaud Desplechin, Marion Cotillard, Louis Garrel, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Hippolyte Girardot, and Alba Rohrwacher at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.
