Favorite: The mask, against all odds
There is a certain merit in wearing the mask at the Palais des festivals, even in theaters, where festival-goers from all over the world find themselves neck and neck. To tell the truth, it is above all the North Americans and the Asians who dare to defy the glares of their seat neighbors, mostly Europeans, who stubbornly refuse to do so, with a vague feeling of guilt. So I send us this crush to persist, because really catching covid in the middle of the Cannes Film Festival is not in our plans. Who has time here to be sick? So we screw it in the face for better or for worse. Is it keeping us too warm? Bof!
Rant: The Black Helmet on the Croisette
The filmmaker Joachim Trier, member of the jury of this competition may well salute the sophistication of the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday, but the Croisette has a kitsch side which dishonors the portrait to him. Every year in front of the Grand Hotel, huge promotional toys compete in vulgarity to advertise Hollywood mega-productions. This time it’s a black aviator’s helmet about twenty feet high extolling the charms of Top Gun: Maverick by Joseph Kozinsky. This film, soon to be released in Montreal, earned us the flash visit of Tom Cruise, the star of the day, who offered a master class with good-natured generosity.
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