"Eddington" Is Heading to Cannes Film Festival

Ari Aster’s dark comedy "Eddington", starring Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, and Emma Stone, has been selected for the Cannes Film Festival.

Speaking to Deadline at the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra event this weekend, Cinematographer Darius Khondji, who is cinematographer on the title, said the pic was in the final stages of post-production.

“I’m going back to New York to do the color for Eddington that’s going to Cannes, I hear,” said two-time Oscar nominee Khondji. “Ari showed me the film. I heard it was going to Cannes two weeks ago.”

“It’s a great film, a very interesting film. It’s very raw, very, very strong, one of the strongest films that I’ve worked on that I really think is going to be fantastic.”

Billed as a black comedy Western thriller, Phoenix stars as an ambitious small-town New Mexico sheriff who goes up against his mayor, played by Pascal, in a pandemic-era power struggle.

The Cannes Film Festival is due to announce the bulk of its 2025 Official Selection at its annual press conference in Paris on Thursday.

Other films expected to have made the cut include Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme, Kirill Serebrennikov’s "The Disappearance of Joseph Mengele", and Kleber Mendonça Filho’s "The Secret Agent".

A24, which is financing and producing Eddington, rolled out sales on the film at the Berlinale’s European Film Market in February, stoking expectations that a Cannes splash could be on the cards.

Further cast members include Austin Butler, Deirdre O’Connell, Micheal Ward, Clifton Collins Jr., Luke Grimes and Amélie Hoeferle. Aster wrote, directed and is producing alongside Lars Knudsen under their Square Peg banner. It is his fourth feature after "Hereditary", "Midsommar," and "Beau is Afraid".