C.two authors begin to put their hands forward (both in interviews with the American Variety: is it a new journalistic device?). Yesterday David Cronenberg during the interview for Crimes of the Future “A film that combines body horror and dystopian panache in equal parts, one of the most anticipated titles since the trailer was released on April 14,” he said he expects that a lot of people leave the hall on May 24th when it will be screened.
«The film that reunites Cronenberg with the actor Viggo Mortensen (A History of Violence, The Murderer’s Promise) and counts on the talent of Kristen Stewart and Lea Seydoux, could prove to be as controversial as the cult film by the Canadian master of 1996 Crash which won the first Cannes Special Jury Prize for “his audacity and originality”, ”wrote the periodical.
Anne Hathaway and Michael Banks in “Armageddon Time”.
The zombie meta-film
And yesterday Michel Hazanavicius who always presented at the Cannes Film Festival The Artistthe 2011 silent comedy that later won the Oscar for Best Picture and for Directing, declared that if “the life of The Artist began with a thunderous standing ovation, the welcome for Coupez! it could be very differentat least until the public understands that the film is a joke ». Could it be that Hazanavicius underestimates us? “I’m ready to accept that some people may whistle during the first 20 minutes,” he revealed. “It would be great. So theThe film should make the audience change their feelings about what they saw. How you feel about the people who made the film is much more important than what you think at the beginning. I love the path that the public takes “.
It did not go like this at the first official screening: so much the first part – the ode to “nullism” of a crew that shoots a Z-series film about zombies in a contaminated place where everyone ends up really turning into living motions – and the second, the offscreen flashback of how we got there, were greeted with no major mood swings.
Cannes Film Festival 2022: the donkey’s gaze
The two titles in today’s competition are Armageddon Time by James Gray, coming-of-age history deeply personal, as is in the director’s costume Ad astraset in Queens where the director grew up (but also Donald Trump’s dad) and set several of his films (from Little Odessa to The Yards) on the strength of the family and the generational search for the American dream. The film has a stellar cast: Anthony Hopkins, Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong.
“EO”.
EO from Jerzy Skolimowski with Isabelle Huppert And Lorenzo Zurzolo is among the most mysterious films of the festival. How mysterious is the world probably seen through the eyes of EO, gray donkey with melancholy eyes protagonist of the story. EO in its path meets good people and bad people, feels joy and pain, and the wheel of fate transforms alternately his luck in disaster and his despair into unexpected happiness. But never, in any moment, does she lose her innocence.
Harka.
Harka from Lotfy Nathan is the proposal of Un certain regard. The protagonist is Ali, a young Tunisian who dreams of a better life, lives a lonely existence, selling contraband gasoline on the black market. When the father dies, he must take care of the two younger sisters who live in a house from which they will soon be evicted.
Faced with this responsibility and the injustices he faces, they awaken in Ali an anger and a desire for revolt that he did not know he had in himself. The same ones of his generation who, more than ten years after the revolution, are still trying to make themselves heard …
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