A year after the Palme d’Or in Titaniumcyberpunk bomb, bloody and no taboo, Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg dissects living people in his film Future crimes. LHas the Cannes Film Festival, which starts on Tuesday, been in love with bloody horror films, often called “gore”?
From the beginning of the festivities, on the night of May 17, the tone was set in the opening film Cut!signed Michel Hazanavicius, which was simultaneously released in theaters.
The pope of pastiche and mise en abyme, of The actor who won him the Oscars OSS 117this time discussing zombie movies with real-fake comedy.
the gore, it has a super playful side, as can westernersMichel Hazanavicius, who was interviewed by the AFP, acknowledged that the film will be shot in the 37th degree: in Cut!, It’s about baby zombies!he smiled.
New version of the Japanese film on the disaster shooting of a zombie feature film, with Bérénice Béjo and Romain Duris in the cast, the film promises that the Croisette will leak hemoglobin.
It was also designed as an ode to the film genre, which has long been underestimated by the guardians of the 7th art, but now has the right to citizenship on the most prestigious red carpets.
A celebration to push boundaries
Film festivals like Cannes are known for paying attention to cinemas pushing boundaries, films that may not have been appreciated on their debut but continue to garner acclaim.explanation to AFP Kate Robertson, a New York expert on the history of cinema and art, where gore films are one of the most popular today. singular, inventive, and pioneers.
The 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival aims to prove it again this year, with the return to competition by David Cronenberg, who tested the nerves of festival goers in 1996, with Fallenall about sex, violence and car accidents.
His Future Crimes promise to restore courage: there will be the question of ablation of living organs, with the distribution of Léa Seydoux and Viggo Mortensen.
The cult director of Fly therefore seems to return to the foundation of the bloody film: the exploration on the cinema screen of the interior of the human body, a subject that has always fascinated him, says Marc Godin, journalist at Technikart and expert in the genre.
The film promises to cleave, it’s not for everyonehe analyzes, explaining that such work is not just made to drive you away but fell to the bottom cerebral gore.
Cannes in search of its scandal
Creating the event with a film or bloody sequence seems to have been one of the obligatory passages of the Festival.
reactions to Pista by Marco Ferreri in 1973 at the screening ofCannot be returned by Gaspard Noé, in 2002, with the unbearable rape scene, Cannes is still awaiting its scandalcontinued Marc Godin.
Almost a century after Andalusian dogs by Luis Buñuel, and his full-frame razor-cut eyes, the bloody film is now one of its ways of arousing buzz Cannes to bring movies, for the greatest pleasure journalists raising mayonnaise. Even, perhaps, to dispel our pandemics or environmental anxieties.
After the bloody end of ParasitePalme d’Or 2019, last year seemed to mark a dedication, with its Palme d’Or being awarded the most violent film of choice, Titaniumsigned Julia Ducournau, a director in her thirties who was crowned with two feature films new queen of gore.
The heroine, who is camped by Agathe Rousselle, haunts her body with a mass of metal growing on her stomach, as she sweats and bleeds motor oil.
But for fans of the genre, like Kate Robertson, this designation remains the exception that proves the rule.
The lack of consideration of this genre of films can be seen in the prices despite everything, he studies. Julia Ducournau’s coronation last year was an exciting surprise for many, which perhaps promises that the world of cinema will evolve even more..
Source: Radio-Canada
