'Armageddon Time' premiered at 2022 Cannes Film Festival

CANNES, FRANCE - MAY 19: Director James Gray’s ‘Armageddon Time’ was premiered at 2022 Cannes Film Festival on Thursday, May 19. Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong, Jaylin Webb and Michael Banks Repeta attended the screening of "Armageddon Time" during the 75th annual Cannes film festival at Palais des Festivals. After two years of low-scale action in the shadows of the COVID-19 pandemic, the annual Cannes Film Festival kickstarts on Tuesday on the French Riviera “under normal conditions” with a promising selection of international cinema, influential fashion, and star-studded film royalty. Thierry Fremaux, the director of the festival, told BFMTV news he was delighted that the festival is back with no health restrictions that canceled the 2020 edition and forced organizers to dim down events in 2021. He expected higher attendance this year and said there was a “sign of impatience, a desire to reconnect" in the film world for the start of the 12-day festival from May 17-28. The 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival pays homage to Peter Weir’s cult comedy The Truman Show, which has inspired the festival's official poster featuring the scene from the movie with Jim Carrey climbing the sky-painted stairway questioning the blurred borders of reality, manipulative fiction and escape. After three decades, Tom Cruise, who made an appearance at Cannes in 1992, also walked up the steps of the Palais des Festivals for Top Gun: Maverick.(Footage by Stringer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)