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The Cannes Film Festival has kicked off: Here are five films you need to keep an eye on | Culture | DR This year, the French Film Festival celebrates its 75th anniversary. It has become the time of year when the world's greatest filmmakers and actors enter the red carpet on the French Riviera. where the 2020 edition was canceled, and the 2021 edition moved and made smaller, then this year's festival returns to the time when corona was not something to worry about. But the corona ghost still haunts a little bit, says DR's journalist and film critic Per Juul Carlsen, who is in .- You can feel that it is not long ago that it has really been opened. For example, it is recommended that you wear when you sit in the cinema. But, as Per Juul Carlsen points out, there is again "hectic, as it usually is." - And you look at the film, which opened the festival in goes, 'Final Cut', then it's a real joke-biting movie with funny zombies and farts and fuss. I think well, people down here are aware that the world needs a good and thorough laugh in these times, he says. The film festival this year offers several long-awaited films and offers both Hollywood blockbusters, horror films and films by Nordic directors in the main competition. Below, Per Juul Carlsen gives his bids for the five films that are most talked about right now. Four of them are fighting for the main prize, the prestigious Palme d'Or, while one of the films gets a special screening. Superstar Tom Cruise is back in top form in the movie 'Top Gun: Maverick', which is released 36 years after the first 'Top Gun' movie. or less mad about it. They praise it as far better than the first 'Top Gun' film. - There is also a lot of talk about the fact that you can hardly see on Tom Cruise that he has become 36 years older. And then he probably flies around in a real jet fighter, so it sounds pretty wild. The film is not shown in competition, but it is not unusual that it is part of the film festival anyway. - You usually have two or three big American films that attract huge stars, and which show that it is not only about film art, but that you also take the commercial seriously, says Per Juul Carlsen. The 79-year-old Canadian film director David Cronenberg is the man behind the anticipated 'Crimes of the Future ', which is competing in the main competition at this year's festival. And it should be a David Cronenberg at full blast, as you saw him in his younger film days, says Per Juul Carlsen. - The film should offer enormously violent scenes. He himself has been out saying that he expects to hear the chairs clapping in the cinema hall when people get up and emigrate. In the film, Viggo Mortensen plays an artist who is able to develop new ones, which he then cuts off as a part of its performance.- It should be reasonably disgusting to look at. There are also rumors that people have vomited after seeing it. But you always have to take that kind of rumor with a grain of salt. In addition to Viggo Mortensen, you can also see Kristen Stewart and Lea Seydoux in big roles. The film is made by the Iranian director Ali Abbasi, who grew up in Sweden and who has made film in Denmark. And then 'Holy Spider' is half Danish, as it has been co-produced by Danish Profile Pictures. does not require a lot of brain work to see a parallel to a male-dominated Iranian society.- Reportedly he is very political with this film, and there are also rumors that he does not want to talk about that side of the film, because he wants to retain the opportunity to visit the family in Iran, says Per Juul Carlsen. According to Per Juul Carlsen, there is talk of 'Holy Spider' as a potential winner of the Palme d'Or. Swede Ruben Østlund participates in the main competition with his new film 'Triangle of Sadness ', which according to Per Juul Carlsen "spits the rich" .- Triangle of Sadness refers to the worry triangle you get in the face when you get up in years. And that you can get rid of if you have enough money.- And that is exactly what the film plays with. Rich people. It is a film that spits rich people well and thoroughly. In the film, some photo models take on a cruise on the Mediterranean, which has many rich people on board. But along the way, the poor gain power over the cruise ship, and from there it develops. The cast includes Danish Zlatko Buric and Vicky Berlin, among others. 'Showing Up' is a comedy-drama about a female sculptor who prepares an exhibition, but who at the same time struggles with all the challenges of also being a housewife.- The film examines the relationship between being creative and at the same time coping with everything that needs to be done in everyday life.- It does not sound wildly overwhelming, but that is exactly what is exciting about director Kelly Reichardt. She manages to tell alternative and small stories, but at the same time she can make them exciting, says Per Juul Carlsen. Precisely Kelly Reichardt becomes one of the really forward-thinking female directors, and the film is not a bad bet for a winner of the Palme d'Or, believes Per Juul Carlsen.- Female instructors have won almost all major awards in the last two years, both internationally and at home. So even though women tend to have a hard time, it could well happen this year.