wim Wenders arrived at the start of the 2023 Cannes Film Festival bringing in the section Seances Speciales Anselmthe 3D documentary dedicated to the sculptor – his compatriot Anselm Kiefer, is now back – almost closing (there are two days left before the proclamation of the Palmares) – in competition with perfect days.
Japan, my love
A scene from “Perfect Days” by Wim Wenders, competing at the Cannes Film Festival.
THEThe German director, an ultra-veteran of the event (in 1976 presented here Over time) and passionate about Japan (remember Tokyo-ga, about his legendary colleague Yasujirō Ozu? AND Travel notes on fashion and the cityon the designer Yamamoto?) takes us back to the metropolis of the Rising Sun but without any celebrities involved.
The beauty of everyday life
Indeed, we are opposites of lives in the spotlight. The protagonist, Hirayama, works in public toilets satisfied with his simple life and his repetitive existence, but enriched by his passion for music, reading and photography (favorite subject: trees). As long as the past does not come back unexpectedly… «An emotional and poetic reflection on the search for beauty in everyday life» suggest the production notes. Lots about the Zeitgeist – we can’t wait to applaud him.
Dangerous passion
Léa Drucker, Olivier Rabourdin, and Samuel Kircher in “L’été dernier”.
Catherine Breillat is also returning to Cannesbut it is above all a return to the cinema: he hadn’t made a film since 2013. He has always been sensitive to issues on the side of women, in L’Été dernier brings to the stage an apparently serene couple – Léa Drucker and Olivier Rabourdin – over whom a threat hangs… The damage – as in Josephine Hart’s novel – in the feminine: it is not he who falls in love with his son’s girlfriend, it is she who puts herself on the line for her husband’s first bed son. With an imaginable age difference (problem already seen here in Cannes in May December by Todd Haynes).
From “Parasite” to director
Song Kang-ho in “Geo-Mi-Jip”.
Also awaited for the out-of-competition film: “Geo-Mi-Jip”, or “The Spider’s Web”, by South Korean Kim Ji-woon. A bit like his 8½: a director in crisis asks himself basic questions: «What is a film? What does it mean to make films? What is creativity and what exactly is originality?» explains Kim Ji-woon himself. Which has an ace up its sleeve: the protagonist is Song Kang-ho, actor-fetish of Bong Joon-ho. Yes, the actor of Parasiteswhich began its journey towards the Oscars with the Palme d’Or in Cannes.
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