THEthe general delegate of Cannes Film Festival 78, the Eternal Thierry Frémaux, Tarantino quotes: «You are optimistic (on the future of cinema, editor’s note) because you are French». Frémaux, which is said to be subscribed to all the platforms, but which with its festival represents the last bulwark of the resistance of cinema projected in the room, obviously it is optimistic.
This is why he decided to open the competition in music (Leave a Jour of the debutant Amélie Bonnin is a musical comedy). And to continue, immediately after, with the barrels (we were notified that the sound systems of the Lumière room were adapted to the Dolby Atmos standard) e Obviously with Tom Cruise.
From Leave a Jour The newspaper Libération But today he writes: «In 2021, the graphic designer and documentary maker Amélie Bonnin made a first Finance short film: twenty -five minutes rewarded almost everywhere including the César, A success that everyone wanted to see ». It is from that short film that the idea of the opening film of this 78th edition was born, without a doubt a bet: “An extensive and modified remake that aims to transfer a cinephile desire to the general public”.
Starting a Jour, the Cannes 78 opening movie.
Second Libéthe result would be “A karaoke movie” made by a director who doesn’t even have a wikipedia page yet. But the attack more than to her seems to us to the author of the bet, the director of the Festival.
Tom Cruise the adventurer in the second part of Mission Impossible
Cannes, The festival that combines industry and glamor, with the highest number of credited to the world (it is clear a lot), this year proposes in its selection of 70 titles (the result of 2900 visions by the Committee), Many author films (Kelly Reichardt, Jafar Panahi, Kleber Mendonça Filo), Sempressa Returns (the Dardenne brothers with Jeunes Mères“We follow their path of movies in movies” says Frémaux), More first works, more films directed by women (but we are far from the goal 50/50) and of course large (huge) productions, such as Mission Impossible by Christopher Mcquarrie, to which the Festival also asked to keep a masterclass (he made his debut as a screenwriter of The usual suspicionswill have a lot to tell).
Cannes Film Festival: the movies we want to see
We look forward to seeing theThe second film as director of Hafsia Herzi, an actress-Cineasta that we follow from the debut in Couscous where he danced continuously for 20 minutes and showed that he had “the Duende” in itself: The petite derniere It is based on the novel of the same name by Fatima Daas, the film who, Herzi had told us, dreamed of doing for some time.
Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal in Eddington.
There is then Eddington of Ari Aster, Author who often associates the adjective “unpredictable”: chronicle of an election campaign in a small American city, which – Frémaux always claims – may perhaps tell us something about the anxieties that from beyond Ocean come to us. AND Die, My Love by Lynne Ramsay, that does not stop – since the time of Ratcatcher – to get chills. This time, to tell about a young mother who in Rural America, fight against her nightmares, the British author of … And now let’s talk about Kevin He summoned two superstars, Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson.
From A Certain Regard Let’s take two beginnings: Harris Dickinson, the actor of Triangle of Sadness and of Babygirlpresents URCHIN, History of a London homeless who tries to change his life. Scarlett Johansson, who needs no introduction, signature Eleanor The Great, With the ninety -year -old Gagliarda Squibb. From the Quinzaine des Realisateursside section of the Festival, The opening movie Enzoby Laurence Cantet, who died in April 2024 (the film was completed by the by the Juimo Campillo)the story of a young traitor of his class, son of the bourgeoisie, but stubbornly determined to work with his hands.
Fatma Hassouna in “Put your soul on your hand and walk”.
But above all the film we want to see is Put your soul on your hand and walk, documentary that has as its protagonist Fatma Hassouna, the Palestinian journalist who was killed together with ten family members in an Israeli air attack last month, one day after he learned that his film had been Included in the Acid of Cannes selection.
Actors, directors and producers to condemn Israel’s operations in Gaza
A group of over 350 actors, directors and international producers has signed a letter to condemn Israel’s operations in the Gaza StripAmong the signatories: Pedro Almodóvar, Ruben Östlund, Guy Pierce, Ralph Fiennes, Melissa Barrera, Yórgos Lánthimos, Susan Sarandon, Alfonso Cuarón, David Cronenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Viggo Mortensen, Javier Bardem, Leïla Bekhti, Costa-Gavras, Brian, Cox, Radu Jude, Asif Kapadia, Aki Kaurismäki, Alex Gibney, Julie Delpy, Virginie Efira, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Judith Godrèche, Sandra Hüller and Laura Poitras.
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