What do Joyce’s “Ulysses,” Tajikistan, night terrors, Bob Dylan, fraught fatherly relationships, Russian spies, astrophysics, Jacques Lacan, dependent disabled brothers and Jackson Pollock have in common? In the unlikely infinite-monkeys-infinite-typewriters scenario whereby this becomes an actual riddle, you now have an answer: nothing, but they all pop up in Arnaud Desplechin‘s “Ismaël’s Ghosts.” If storylines were measured in yardage, laid end to end the film’s narratives could comfortably lasso the moon, but its very fundamental problem is that they’re not laid end-to-end.

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When attending a film festival, sometimes you need something a little breezy before you go full throttle into consuming multiple films per day, for a week or longer. This year, that task falls to Arnaud Desplechin‘s “Ismael’s Ghosts,” which, at the very least, will feature Marion Cotillard dancing to Bob Dylan‘s “It Ain’t Me Babe.”

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Co-starring Mathieu Amalric, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alba Rohrwacher, and Louis Garrel, the film tells the story of a filmmaker haunted by the women from his past and present.

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The Cannes Film Festival has been more secretive than usual this year, with Thierry Fremaux and co. deciding not to announce the opening film in advance, as is usually tradition. Instead, the full lineup has just dropped all at once, and it looks like a very strong year.

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Despite some speculation that Netflix would be shut out, the streaming service has Noah Baumbach‘s “The Meyerowitz Stories” and Bong Joon-Ho‘s “Okja” headed to the south of France.

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While Arnaud Desplechin, the director behind celebrated films like “Kings & Queens” and “A Christmas Tale,” stumbled a bit with “Jimmy P.” in 2013, be bounced back in a big way with last year’s “My Golden Days.” It was a return to form for the director, and he’s already jumping into his next project, which has assembled a promisingly starry cast.

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