Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris” will open the Cannes Film Festival on May 11, the same day it arrives in French theaters — where it will be shown along with a live telecast of the opening-night ceremonies. 

In a press release today, festival director Thierry Fremaux calls the romantic comedy “a wonderful love letter to Paris. It’s a film in which Woody Allen takes a deeper look at the issues raised in his last films: our relationship with history, art, pleasure and life. His 41st feature reveals once again his inspiration.”

The U.S. distributor, Sony Pictures Classics, has not set a release date for the film, which stars Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, Kathy Bates and Adrien Brody — with an appearance by Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, France’s First Lady. A number of Woody’s films have bowed in Cannes, including last year’s “You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger” and “Vicky Cristina Barcelona.”

No other titles have been announced for this year’s edition of the prestigious film festival on the French Riviera, which runs through May 22. But insiders widely believe that Cannes will debut Terrence Malick’s eagerly anticipated “The Tree of Life,” which was invited to the festival last year but wasn’t ready in time.

Fox Searchlight will open “The Tree of Life,” which stars Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Jessica Chastain, in the United States just after Cannes, on May 27.