Cannes Critics’ Week: Jesse Eisenberg’s ‘When You Finish Saving The World’ To Open 2022 Selection
deadline.comCannes Film Festival’s parallel sidebar Critics’ Week has unveiled the 11 features and 13 shorts that will comprise its 2022 edition.
Scroll down to see the full lineup.Opening the event will be Jesse Eisenberg’s comedy-drama When You Finish Saving the World, which premiered at Sundance this year and has its international premiere in Cannes.
The film stars Julianne Moore and Finn Wolfhard as mother and son.Closing the program will be Jung July’s Next Sohee, a detective drama starring Bae Doona.This is the first selection for new Critics’ Week artistic director Ava Cahen, who becomes the second female director in the event’s history.Cannes Critics’ Week runs May 18-26 this year.Feature FilmsAftersun (UK / U.S.) Dir.
Charlotte WellsAlma Viva (Portugal / France) Dir. Cristèle Alves MeiraDalva (Love according to Dalva) (Belgium / France) Dir.
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