Cannes 2013: 10 key films - in pictures

Steven Soderbergh's "final" film, Behind the Candelabra, is an HBO-backed Liberace biopic that's been picking up astonishing buzz from early screenings. Michael Douglas is the pianist, Matt Damon his lover and Rob Lowe his agent Photograph: PR

Inside Llewyn Davis, the Coen brothers' latest, follows a Dylan-ish singer round the folk scene of 1960s New York. Oscar Isaac is the lead; Carey Mulligan co-stars Photograph: PR

La Grande Bellezza already looks like a return to form for Paolo Sorrentino following the disappointing Sean Penn Goth soap This Must Be the Place Photograph: PR

Only God Forgives reunites Nicolas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling two years on from Drive. It's set in Bangkok; Kristin Scott Thomas plays Gosling's mum. The definition of a must-see Photograph: PR

The Immigrant (previously titled Lowlife) reunites James Gray (We Own the Night) and Joaquin Phoenix for a 20s-set tale of Ellis Island trauma and magic. Marion Cotillard and Jeremy Renner co-star Photograph: PR

Asghar Farhadi's followup to A Separation (About Elly was shot before that) is Le Passé, starring The Artist's Bérénice Bejo and Tahar Rahim, from A Prophet Photograph: PR

Stephen Frears, here presenting Tamara Drewe at Cannes in 2010, is back with Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight,, about the boxer's refusal to go to war in Vietnam. He is the only British director at the 2013 festival Photograph: ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT/AFP/Getty Images

Sofia Coppola's Marie-Antoinette premiered in competition at Cannes in 2006; The Bling Ring has been shunted to the Un Certain Regard sidebar. Based on a real-life case, it stars Emma Watson as one of a mob of fame-obsessed teens who use the internet to track celebrities' whereabouts in order to rob their homes Photograph: PR

Meta-movie alert: Roman Polanski's latest film, Venus in Fur, is adapted from an off-Broadway play and stars his wife, Emmanuelle Seigner, as an actor trying to convince a director (Mathieu Amalric) she is perfect for a part in an upcoming production Photograph: JENS KALAENE/EPA

Alexander Payne reportedly wanted to premiere The Descendants at Cannes a couple of years back, following on from his success with About Schmidt in 2002. He got his way with his latest, Nebraska, a father/son road movie starring Bruce Dern
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