A Woman's Life Cannes premiere May 14

AP photographs published on Thursday, May 14, showed Erri De Luca, Suzanne de Baecque and Charles Berling arriving for the premiere of “A Woman’s Life” at the Cannes Film Festival. The images appeared in AP’s Cannes photo highlights gallery dated May 14, and the captions identified the three by name at the screening. (apnews.com) Cannes’ own materials show “A Woman’s Life,” the English title for “La Vie d’une femme,” in the festival’s 2026 Competition lineup. The festival also posted a press conference and photocall for the film on May 14. (festival-cannes.com) ### Which film was premiering on May 14? The Cannes Film Festival listed “La Vie d’une femme (A Woman’s Life)” in Competition for its 2026 edition. (festival-cannes.com) The festival’s official selection page names Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet as director. Festival materials describe the film as a 98-minute France-Belgium production. Cannes says the story follows Gabrielle, a 55-year-old surgeon and department head in a public hospital whose routine is unsettled when a novelist spends time in her ward for a book project. ### Who was identified at the Cannes arrival? AP’s May 14 photo coverage identified Erri De Luca, Suzanne de Baecque and Charles Berling arriving for the “A Woman’s Life” premiere. (apnews.com) The AP gallery was published as part of its Cannes photo highlights coverage. Cannes’ press-conference entry for the film names Charles Berling, Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet, Léa Drucker, Erri De Luca, Marie-Christine Barrault and David Thion among participants. (festival-cannes.com) A separate Cannes film page lists Berling and Barrault in the cast. ### Who else is attached to “A Woman’s Life”? Cannes credits Léa Drucker as Gabrielle and lists Mélanie Thierry, Charles Berling, Laurent Capelluto and Marie-Christine Barrault in the cast. (festival-cannes.com) The festival page also names Bourgeois-Tacquet for directing and screenplay-dialogue credits. IMDb’s current title page also lists Charles Berling in the cast and identifies Bourgeois-Tacquet as director. (apnews.com) IMDb’s cast details differ in part from the festival page, so Cannes’ official credits are the primary source for the festival entry. ### Was May 14 only a red-carpet stop? Cannes’ media library shows more than a red-carpet appearance on May 14. The festival posted a press-conference item for “A Woman’s Life” on May 14 and separately posted a photocall entry the same day. (festival-cannes.com) The press-conference page names Bourgeois-Tacquet, Drucker, Berling, Thierry, De Luca, Barrault and producer David Thion. The photocall entry confirms the film had an official festival photo call on the same date. (festival-cannes.com) ### Where does the film sit in the wider Cannes lineup? The Festival de Cannes published its 2026 Official Selection on April 9 and included “A Woman’s Life” among the Competition titles. (imdb.com) The broader lineup placed films by Pedro Almodóvar, Asghar Farhadi, James Gray, Koreeda Hirokazu and others in the same section. Cannes updated that official-selection release on April 23, according to the festival press page. (festival-cannes.com) The listing keeps “A Woman’s Life” in Competition rather than in sidebars such as Un Certain Regard or Cannes Premiere. ### What comes next after the May 14 premiere? (festival-cannes.com) The 79th Festival de Cannes runs from May 12 to May 23, 2026, according to the festival’s media-library and event pages. That leaves “A Woman’s Life” in contention through the remainder of this year’s Competition before the festival closes. Cannes’ film page lists Pyramide as distributor and Be For Films for foreign sales, while Les Films Pelléas and Versus Production are named among the producers. (festival-cannes.com) Those are the next named companies attached to the film after its May 14 premiere events. (festival-cannes.com 1) (festival-cannes.com 2)