“Hor a big flaw: as soon as I touch the everyday, I can’t help but turn it into a myth; and a modest quality: as soon as I touch the myth, I can’t help but transform it into everyday life! My concern for this story, for me who was born a Catholic, was to find a way out of hatred that was not Christian“.
Thus Arnaud Desplechin spoke of Frère et soeurthe first of the films in competition today at Cannes Film Festival 2022in a recent interview. Marion Cotillard and Melvil Poupaud I am a sister and brother on the threshold of fifty years … Alice is an actress, Louis was a teacher and poet. Alice has hated her brother for over twenty years. They do not see each other and if they meet on the street they do not greet each other … Brother and sister will have to see each other again when their parents die.
Marion Cotillard and Melvil Poupaud.
Boy from Heaven has Swedish nationality, but is written and directed by Tarik Saleh, director, host, editor, journalist and television producer of Egyptian originauthor of The Nile Hilton Incident (2017), and is the second title in the competition. Saleh stages the struggle for power in a symbolic place: Adam, son of a simple fisherman, is admitted to the University al-Azhar of Cairo, the highest Sunni institution. But on the first day of school, the Grand Imam of the mosque dies in front of the students. A merciless succession war begins.
“Boys from Heaven”.
Cannes Film Festival 2022: out of competition
The film by an author who had already brought the beautiful to the festival in 2019 The mountain range of dreams. Once again with Mi país imaginario the Chilean Patricio Guzmán takes us to his country, which he left after being imprisoned by the Pinochet regime. And he does it to talk to us of the unexpected “revolution” of October 2019, when one and a half million people took to the streets of Santiago calling for more democracy, a better life, a better education and health system and a new Constitution. “Chile had recovered its memory … What I was waiting for from my student problems in 1973 had finally come true,” said the 80-year-old author.
Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba.
Always out of competition Three Thousand Years of Longing by George Miller, the director of “innovative blockbusters” (Mad Max, Fury Road and the next Furious) it is an anomalous film for him: epic-fantastic romantic with Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton.
Miller has indeed described Three Thousand Years of Longing as “the opposite” of Fury Road – an “anti-Mad Max” – and in many ways he is right. The protagonist will be the wordthis time the action is triggered by the dialogue between a scholar passing through Istanbul and a genius, a jinn, who, telling his journey through fantasy and history, try to get her to make three wishes.
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