TOfinally arrives in competition at Cannes 2023 The sun of the future and puts his mortgage on the Palme d’Or. Nanni Moretti he is very popular in France: he has participated in the Festival since 1978 (when he brought to the competition Ecce Bombo), has already been awarded in 2001 for Son’s room and in 2012 he was president of the jury.
Cinema and ageing
Nanni Moretti and Margherita Buy in “Il sol dell’avvenire”, presented at the Cannes Film Festival (photo Michele D’Attanasio).
«I will see it without prejudice» assured Julia Ducurnau at the press conference, who won the highest award with Titans in 2021the same year it was presented Three floors by Moretti. Which I commented: «Getting old suddenly happens. Especially if your film participates in a festival. And he doesn’t win. And instead he wins another film, in which the protagonist becomes pregnant with a Cadillac. You get old suddenly. Safe”.
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Proven pair
He’s used to awards too Trần Anh Hùng, the Vietnamese director (naturalized French), Caméra d’or at Cannes in 1993 for the debut film, Ithe scent of green papayaAnd Golden Lion in Venice for cyclo. This time he plays at home by bringing together in The passion of Dodin Bouffant two darlings from beyond the Alps (and beyond): Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel, once a couple as well in life. She is a cook, he is a gastronome, in a story of love & cuisine set in the 19th century. But with a very contemporary technical consultant: the starred chef Pierre Gagnaire.
Toxic love
Virginie Efira and Melvil Poupaud in “L’Amour et les Forêts”.
In the newborn section Cannes Premiere it is the day of L’Amour et les Forêtsdirected by Valérie Donzelli and based on the novel of the same name by Eric Reinhardt. It begins as an even sugary love story between Virginie Efira and Melvil Poupaud. Too good to be true? And in fact… «This love is a gas chamber» sang Gianna Nannini.
The joy of cinephiles
Juliette Binoche in “The passion of Dodin Bouffant”.
To the delight of the most strictly observant cinephiles, it arrives out of competition Kennedy by Anurag Kashyapthe Indian director already applauded at Cannes with Gangs of Wasseypur. He tries his hand at a neo-noir (revisitation of the forties noir) – starring Rahul Bhat and Sunny Leone on an insomniac (and corrupt) ex-cop who seeks salvation. A look at the past with 100 Years of Warner Bros. – the documentary by Leslie Iwerks which celebrates the centenary of the legendary production company.
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