France, April 9 -- Others in the running for the festival's top prize include Japan's Hirokazu Kore-eda, who won the 2018 competition with Shoplifters, and former winner Cristian Mungiu from Romania, whose new film Fjord is set in Norway and stars Renate Reinsve.

Other regular faces in the mix include Belgian director Lukas Dhont, who took the Grand Prix in Cannes for Close in 2022, with Coward - his third feature film, set during the First World War.

American A-listers will be somewhat thin on the ground at the 79th edition of the festival, although Woody Harrelson and Kristen Stewart are set to star in the Paris-set Full Phil by French director Quentin Dupieux.

Bohemian Rhapsody star Rami Malek will get his turn on the red ...