(Paris) “The ultimate gesture of cinema” by Jean-Luc Godard, a biopic on the French navigator Florence Arthaud: the Cannes Film Festival unveiled Friday, eleven days before its opening, the list of films which will be presented in its Cannes Classics and Cinéma de la plage sections.
Eight months after the death of the legendary figure of cinema, the Festival will present a world premiere of a 20-minute short film, phoney warsconsidered the last work of Jean-Luc Godard.
“Jean-Luc Godard often transformed his synopses into aesthetic programs. phoney wars proceeds from this tradition, and will remain as the master’s ultimate gesture of cinema, underlines the Festival in a press release.
Godard’s project was accompanied by the following text, he continues: “No longer trusting the billions of dictates of the alphabet to give back their freedom to the incessant metamorphoses and metaphors of a real language by returning to past filming locations, while keeping a tale (sic) of current times”.
The Cannes Classics section will also present a documentary in the form of a reflection on the state of cinema, Room 999, by Lubna Playoust. Shot last year during the 75e edition of the Festival, it interviews around thirty big names from the 7e art present at Cannes, from the American director James Gray to the French Olivier Assayas via the Iranian Asghar Farhadi. The film mirrors another documentary, shot by Wim Wenders forty years earlier, Room 666.
As for the cinema on the beach, Cannes has chosen to program FloA biopic on Florence Arthaud, navigator nicknamed “the little bride of the Atlantic” and who died in 2015, in a world premiere.
The film had been the subject of a referral from the sailor’s daughter, the first woman to win the Route du Rhum in 1990, who was worried about the image that the work was going to give of her mother and who asked for a copy. of the scenario. The court rejected his summary in mid-April.