Cannes 2024: The 15 Movies We’re Most Excited to See:

A musical involving drug cartels, gender identity, and Selena Gomez. A Brooklyn sex worker’s fairy-tale romance involving a Russian oligarch’s son. An Italian director’s tribute to his hometown, via the sort of go-for-baroque filmmaking that’s become rarer and rarer, and a woman named after a siren from The Odyssey. A French filmmaker’s tribute to his own career, filled with past heroes and villains from a rich back catalog. The return of a New Hollywood legend. A high-octane sequel from an Australian New Wave legend. A harrowing yet uplifting doc on Ukraine. A biopic on Donald Trump: The Younger, Pre-Fascist Years!

These are just a few of buzzier titles set to be unveiled once the Cannes Film Festival kicks off on May 14, and we haven’t even got to Cate Blanchett communing in a forest with a giant brain yet. An omnivorous moviegoer’s dream come true, the big event on the fest-circuit’s spring calendar kicks off with the latest from auteur/agent provocateur Quentin Dupieux — a Louis Garrel/Léa Seydoux comedy titled The Second Act — and over the next few weeks, will premiere everything from the first half of Kevin Costner’s new Western (Horizon: Part 1) to new works from Francis Ford Coppola, David Cronenberg, Yorgos Lanthimos, Paul Schrader, Andrea Arnold, Jia Zhang-ke, Leos Carax, and a whole lot more.

We’ve skimmed the cream of this year’s Cannes crop, and come up with 15 movies we’re dying to see during the 2024 edition’s run.

Oh, Canada

It’s hard to think of a living Hollywood filmmaker who’s had such a major third-act rejuvenation as Paul Schrader; ever since First Reformed suggested that the New Hollywood lion-in-winter had experienced a creative second wind, the 77-year-old has delivered bold, uncompromising dramas about complicated characters working their way out of existential ruts (The Card Counter, Master Gardener). Now, Schrader tackles another work from the late, great novelist Russell Banks, the same author who gave him the source material for 1997’s Affliction. A writer (Richard Gere) decides to make peace with his past as an American who moved to the Great White North to avoid being drafted during the Vietnam War. His decision to tell all does not sit well with his friends and loved ones, however. Uma Thurman, Michael Imperioli, and current It guy Jacob Elordi co-star.

View the whole list at The Rolling Stone.