LIST: 24 films competing for Cannes Palme d’Or 2021

Here are the 24 films competing for the Palme d’Or as the Cannes Film Festival returns from July 6 to 17, with a jury led by American director Spike Lee.

‘Annette’ by Leos Carax, France

Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard star as a glamorous celebrity couple whose lives are upended by the arrival of their first child.

The first film in a decade from auteur Carax is also the first in English from the eccentric French mind behind arthouse favorites “Holy Motors” and “The Lovers on the Bridge.”

‘The French Dispatch’ by Wes Anderson, United States

Film fans can never get enough of Wes Anderson, and his latest quirky bauble can be counted on for more obsessively curated sets and shots, 20th-century nostalgia, family disharmony and Bill Murray.

Plus yet more megastars in Anderson’s…