Tarantino to Present “Secret Screening” in Cannes

The iconic director — who returns 4 years after premiering Once Upon a Time in Hollywood on the Croisette — will be the guest of honor of the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar competition.

Quentin Tarantino attends the closing ceremony screening of "The Specials" during the 72nd annual Cannes Film Festival on May 25, 2019 in Cannes — Tarantino attends the closing ceremony of “The Specials” during the 72nd Cannes Film Fest on May 25, 2019 in Cannes VITTORIO ZUNINO CELOTTO/GETTY IMAGES)

The Directors’ Fortnight sidebar competition has revealed that Tarantino will be its guest of honor at the 2023 edition of the festival, presenting a “secret screening” May 25.

He will be discussing his “counter-history of cinema,” theories about 1970s Hollywood that were recently published in his part-memoir, part film theory Cinema Speculation.

The competition — which described itself as a “counter-programming of free-spirited films from all over the world” — noted that it launched in Cannes in 1969, just as the period of filmmaking history in Tarantino’s book, when a “new generation of filmmakers rose against old Hollywood” began.

Tarantino returns to Cannes four years after he world-premiered Once Upon a Time in Hollywood at the festival, and 29 years after he won the Palme d’Or for Pulp Fiction.

While the Directors’ Fortnight wouldn’t name the film Tarantino will present, it did give a hint, claiming that there would be “a rockabilly vibe on closing day.”

Cannes Film Fest 2023: Tarantino to Present “Secret Screening” May 25

Tarantino to Present “Secret Screening” in Cannes

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