Cannes Film Festival 2023: the films of Monday 22 May

THEexpired at Bresson, Ozu And Chaplin Fallen Leaves by Aki Kaurismaki, “sweet tragicomedy on two lonely people who meet by chance at night in Helsinki and try to find their first, only and last love» in the words of the author, is one of the films we count on.

The Finnish director who called this year Alma Pöysti and Jussi Vatanen to play her two lovershas always managed, when necessary, to change our mood.

Le thèorème de Marguerite

Le thèorème de Marguerite by Anna Novion is one of today’s Séances spéciales. A brilliant mathematics student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, clearly projected towards a bright future, on the day of the presentation of the thesis, he makes a mistake and this shakes all certainties and changes all his plans for the future. So he decides to drop everything and start over.

Margaret’s theorem.

The Idol by Sam Levinson

The Idol by Sam Levinson is a series, a genre that has now acquired the right of citizenship in film festivals. But so far Cannes had kept away from it. Venice had hosted the third season of in September The kingdom by Lars von Trier, the latest creation by Sam Levinson, the producer Of Euphoria,

The dark side of showbiz

The Idol, created and performed by The Weeknd focuses on one of the dark side of the entertainment industry, let’s hope they found one so dark that it hasn’t been explored yet. Lily-Rose Depp, the daughter of Johnny and Vanessa Paradis, plays a young pop starThe Weeknd is a cult leader with whom he falls in love

Lily Rose Depp and The Weeknd

The valley of sin

The Valley of Sin (Vale Abraão)1993 film directed by Manoel de Oliveira, based on a novel by Agustina Bessa-Luís (inspired by Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary), presented at the 46th Cannes Film Festival in the Directors’ Fortnight, returns to the section this year renamed Directors’ Fortnight, for the thirtieth anniversary. A frame from the film with the protagonist Leonor Silveira was the good choice for the poster of this edition of the Fortnight.

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