THEhe Cannes Film Festival combines commercial films and auteur cinema. The Cannes Film Festival is the Hollywood circus and European arthouse production. The Cannes Film Festival brings together in its DNA, created in the laboratory and managed by long-time artistic directors – for over twenty years the more discreet Gilles Jacob and from 2001 to today the flamboyant Thierry Frémaux – social cinema and luxury brands, millionaire sponsors and social justice, bicycles and yachts, feminism, #MeToo and celebrities accused of harassment and violence.
Johnny Depp in Jeanne du Barry.
In short, Cannes welcomes Ken Loach and Johnny Deppto Wang Bing, Chinese documentary filmmaker who with Youth takes the viewers to the textile workshops of the Shanghai banlieue and to Indiana Jones. It seems impossible, but the Cannes Film Festival contains contradictions, it doesn’t harmonize them, it’s not its job, it exposes them, it “events” them we could say, if the term didn’t give us ache au belly.
Thierry Frémaux, black belt in Festivals
Thierry Frémaux, who is a sea dog, one who jumps on stage as in a commercial of the positive effects of martial arts (he is a black belt in judo), has programmed in the first two days of the festival two films directed by women, Maiwenn and Catherine Corsiniboth at the center of controversy for the history of the protagonist of the first, Johnny Depp, who emerged victorious from a hyper-mediatized trial on the tumultuous relationship with his ex-wife Amber Heard, and for the choice of the director of Le Retour dthe filming a sexual act between minors without notifying the competent authorities as required by law in France. In other words, you accuse us of not having enough female directors at festivals and when we select them you are difficult?
Pirates of the Dunes
Corsini, who saw the ministerial funding of 580,000 euros suspended for the failed act, accuses her accusers of misogyny. Johnny Depp says he doesn’t care about those right-thinking Hollywood since Europe welcomes him with open arms (and also Saudi Arabia, co-financier of Jeanne Du Barrya film which due to its content can never be screened in the Arab country where cinemas did not exist until 2018).
Well that Johnny Depp has made new friends: the specialized press reports the extra luxury tour that the actor would have done at the court of Mohammed Bin Salman and in the historic and magnificent AIUla region, where the Red Sea Film Foundation expects to invite more and more productions and filmmakers to shoot their films.
The red carpet and the troops lined up.
Meanwhile the generators have landed on the Croisette. Energy armageddon is expected on Sunday. The unions have promised to cut the electricity to the festival and trenches are dug in Cannes. We will resist. Up to the last tart.
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