A Hollywood star, Forest Whitaker, then a crazy zombie comedy signed by the director of The actor (2011): Tuesday kicked off the 75th Cannes Film Festival, an anniversary edition between the 7th art, stars and shadows of the war in Ukraine.
The red carpet was launched around 10:30 am (4:30 am EST). It welcomed the stars, the public, as well as members of the jury, led by actor Vincent Lindon who settled in Cannes on Monday, as well as Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi and Italian actress Jasmine Trinca.
At 7 pm (1 pm Eastern Time), the opening ceremony will be presided over by Virginie Efira, also expected to screen for her role as survivor of an attack on See Paris again.
But the star of the night was Forest Whitaker, who at the age of 60 will receive the Palme d’Or honor for a career marked with an Oscar for his portrayal of Amin Dada, the dictator of Uganda, in The Last King of Scotland (2006), or in his role as an assassin in ghost dog : the samurai way (1999) by Jim Jarmusch.
The African-American actor, who also heads a charity fighting poverty around the world, is a regular at the Croisette, where he won an interpretation prize in 1988 for birds by Clint Eastwood.
An opening parody of the zombie movie
The environment promised to change significantly, with the opening of the screening Cut!by Michel Hazanavicius, an insane parody of zombie films, and a declaration of love to all films of the genre-even the most failed.
The film will act as an outlet for a world of cinema trying to recover from the pandemic. Cut! is fun, it features people in the cinema, and hopefully you’ll want to do itthe director told AFP, saying he was very happy to return to Cannes as the opening.
In a few hours, the public will be able to return during the screening of The Mom and the whoreone of the films that made the Cannes legend, in 1973. It will be seen by some people for the first time, since half a century after causing the scandal, this major work of the New Wave signed by Jean Eustache, has never been repeated -issue. , and became hard to look at for rights issues.
The film is now back, and two of its actors, Jean-Pierre Léaud and Françoise Lebrun, must attend its Cannes screening with emotion, before its new theatrical show this summer in France.
Full support for the Ukrainians
Cannes will enter the heart of the matter the next day: a powerful symbol, the official competition will begin on Wednesday with the screening of the latest Russian film Kirill Serebrennikov, which violates the regime.
The director is finally able to personally defend his latest opus, a film about Tchaikovsky’s wife, he who is not allowed to leave his country to go and show his two previous works, Leto at Petrov fever.
However, the festival refused to host Official representatives of Russia, government bodies or journalists representing the official line. But we will show full and non-negotiable support for the Ukrainian citizensadopted on Monday Thierry Frémaux, the general delegate of the festival, with several films selected.
Same story with Vincent Lindon, president of the jury this year, who estimated on Tuesday that it would take be careful of being dignified, polite […] just as a tribute to people whose days are more complicated than oursespecially in Ukraine.
The world we live in today is changing our human condition […] probably unconscious will appear hereacknowledged the French actor, when asked about how the war in Ukraine would influence the jury, but hopefully not, our watching movies won’t change.
The president of the jury considered that if some films would interact with the world, others really wouldn’t and neither should they interact, otherwise, there wouldn’t have been a film like this. pulp Fiction, winner of the Palme d’Or in 1995.
Top gunCronenberg and Elvis Presley
Side red carpet, cameras will be ready for increasing the steps of the new team Top gun (not in competition), with Tom Cruise.
Many stars will follow until the festival closes on May 28, such as Kristen Stewart, who will take the steps alongside Léa Seydoux and Viggo Mortensen for David Cronenberg’s latest film; up-and-coming actor Austin Butler and veteran Tom Hanks, who plays Elvis and his manager in a biopic; or even Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton in George Miller’s latest film, the creator of the Mad Max series.
Among the filmmakers running for Palme, Park Chan-wook, director and others of the thriller old man (2003), returned with a sulfur probe in Decision to Leave. James Gray presents Time of Armageddonwith Anthony Hopkins and Anne Hathaway, while others, already medalists, will try to win a new trophy, including the Dardenne brothers with Tori and Lokita or the railing Ruben Östlund with Without filter.
Source: Radio-Canada
