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Linda Cardellini plays a soldier who returns home from a tour of duty and has trouble adjusting in artist-turned-director Liza Johnson’s debut feature Return. John Slattery and Michael
Shannon co-star. Return is the only U.S. movie selected to play in the prestigious Cannes sidebar Directors’ Fortnight, announced this morning in Paris. Johnson is one of several female
directors injecting a dose of estrogen into this year’s 25-film lineup. Other women directors include Ireland’s Rebecca Daly, whose first film The Other Side of Sleep tells the story of a
sleepwalker in a rural town searching for her mother’s killer; Polish filmmaker Urszula Antoniak (Code Blue); Canada’s Isabelle Lavigne and Stephane Thibault (At Night They Dance); and
Morocco’s Leila Kilani (Sur La Planche). Directors’ Fortnight runs May 12-22. The lineup:
