This year’s Cannes competition slate is unquestionably stacked, including new films from major names like David Cronenberg, Kelly Reichardt, Claire Denis, Arnaud Desplechin, the Dardenne brothers, James Gray, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Ruben Ostlund, and Park Chan-wook, but anyone looking for proof that the lauded festival is at all interested in bulking up its representation of female filmmakers will likely come away disappointed.While festival director Thierry Fremaux used a recent interview with Variety to tout that this edition of the festival would have “a stronger presence of female directors,” that was all talk: the 2022 festival will include just three films directed by women in the competition section out of 18 total.
That’s 16.6 percent, precisely the same ratio as last year and an overall downturn in total inclusion from previous years.Those 2022 films include Denis’ “The Stars at Noon,” Reichardt’s “Showing Up,” and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi’s “Les Amandiers.” Reichardt
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