Forward of elevating the curtain on its 74th version on Tuesday (July 6), Cannes has made a late addition to its program within the type of Japanese director Mamoru Hosoda’s characteristic animation Belle.
The pic marks the director’s return to Cannes following Mirai, which screened within the Administrators’ Fortnight sidebar in 2018. This marks his first time in official choice.
Belle is the third animation movie offered this yr on the competition following Ari Folman’s The place is Anne Frank and The Summit of the Gods by Patrick Imbert.
Belle tells the story of Suzu, an insecure teenager residing in a small city within the mountains together with her father, in actual life. However within the digital world of U, Suzu turns into Belle, a musical icon adopted by greater than 5 billion followers.
Pic will display screen on July 15 and is scheduled for launch in France on December 29.
“Belle is the movie that I’ve at all times dreamt to create,” stated Mamoru Hosoda, “And that I could make at the moment because of the end result of my earlier movies. On this one, I discover romance, motion, and suspense in addition to deeper themes comparable to life and dying. I hope that it is going to be an enormous entertaining present.”