“Everybody Knows,” starring Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz and Ricardo Darin, will open the 71st Cannes Film Festival, festival organizers announced on Thursday.
Asghar Farhadi directed the psychological thriller, and the film is the second film that is not in English or French to open the festival after Pedro Almodovar’s “Bad Education” in 2004.
“Everybody Knows,” written by Farhadi, follows Laura (Cruz) who travels from Buenos Aires to her native village in Spain with her family. However, the big family reunion is disrupted by events that change the character’s lives.
Iranian director Farhadi had two films in the Cannes competition previously — “The Salesman” in 2016 and “The Past” in 2013.