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It’s Miller’s Time: Mad Max: Fury Road Receives Cannes Film Fest Invite

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In an odd leap frog announcement, the Cannes Film Festival have announced an Out of Competition selection that is not the opening film for the 68th edition. George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road will receive it’s world premiere on day 2 of the fest at the Grand Théâtre Lumière. A cornerstone in dystopian action genre and Ozploitation, the cult franchise’s fourth film comes three decades after the third installment. Miller launched the series in 1979 (Mad Max) before filming Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) and Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985).

Mad Max: Fury Road transports us to a post-apocalyptic world in which gangs clash over scare petrol and water resources. Max Rockatansky, played by Tom Hardy, comes face to face with the Empress Furiosa (Charlize Theron), who is fleeing a gang in hot pursuit…

 

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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