10 Most Anticipated Films At Cannes 2016

3. The Last Face

Playing: In Competition

What Is It? When he's not posing for pictures with Mexican drug lords, Sean Penn likes to find the time to make movies. Almost a decade after Into the Wild, he's back in the director's seat for The Last Face, a film with (typical for Cannes) very little information revealed about it. We know Charlize Theron plays the director of an aid agency who runs into Javier Bardem's doctor, but after that there's only set photos to go on.

Why It Should Be Great: Obviously it's hard to get excited for the story that The Last Face will be telling, but the fact this a Sean Penn film should be all you need. The Oscar-winning actor has only gone behind the camera intermittently, making four films in the past twenty-five years, but when he does it's always something special; he has a surprisingly knack for producing serious character studies that don't get lost in themselves.

It's also going to make for a fascinating red carpet when Theron and Penn have to share the spotlight. Gotta have that scandal at Cannes.

When's It Out Elsewhere? 2016 TBA (USA)