TOL Cannes Film Festival tomorrow, Saturday 21 May, is the day of two Golden Palms. And of an Italian actress for the first time in the role of director of a feature film.
A family story, signed by Cristian Mungiu
Palme d’Or in 2007 (for the film 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days), Romanian director Cristian Mungiu with RMN brings us in Transylvania, a few days before Christmas. Matthias, who has returned to his home village after quitting his job in Germany, wants to see his son Rudi, who is growing up without him. But also his father Otto, left alone. And he wants reconnect with Csilla, his ex-girlfriend. When the factory that Csilla runs decides to hire foreign employees, the quiet of the small community is disturbed: frustrations, conflicts and passions resurface, shattering the semblance of peace that had reigned up to that moment.
A satire of the world of fashion and social media, by Ruben Östuld
Ruben Östuld, also formerly Palme d’Or, brings to the festival Triangle of sadness, a satire of the world of fashion and social media. At the center of the story, the Carl and Yaya models, beautiful and thoughtless. They are invited to participate in a luxury cruise in the company of a group of super-rich passengers, a Russian oligarchBritish arms dealers and an alcoholic captain who quotes Marx.
Woody Harrelson, right, is the captain of the ship in Triangle of sadness.
At first everything appears instagrammable. But a storm is brewing. Carl and Yaya find themselves like this abandoned on a desert island with a group of billionaires and one of the ship’s cleaners. The hierarchy is turned upside downsince the housekeeper is the only one who knows how to fish.
Jasmine Trinca presents her first work
From the movie “Marcel!” with Maayane Conti and Alba Rohrwacher
Today is also the day of Marcel! by Jasmine Trinca, at the festival as a juror and author of her first workpresented in the Séances spéciales section. The protagonist is a restless girlMaayane Conti, met in the short film by Trinca, Being My Mom (2020) and Alba Rohrwacher, in the role of the mother-artist. Then, of course, there is him, Marcel. The dog.
At the end of the day, the Cannes Film Festival is enjoying something surreal
Fumer fait tusser by Quentin Dupieux guarantees the right amount of surreality welcome at the end of the day. We report from the catalog, the priceless synopsis: «After a fierce fight against a demonic turtle, five vigilantes called“ TABAC FORCE ”are ordered to retire to strengthen the cohesion of the group. Everything goes on wonderfully until Lézardin, emperor of evil, decides to annihilate the planet Earth ... “
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