(Cannes) Our special correspondent on the Croisette reports on the latest news from the Cannes Film Festival.
Catherine Breillat, filmmaker above all
Presenting in competition Last summer, a film that arouses both the enthusiasm and the ire of festival-goers, Catherine Breillat explained her approach at a press conference on Friday. “I am a feminist and always have been. Those who hated my films blamed me for hating it and it was disgusting. I am first and foremost a filmmaker and entomologist. I like to scrutinize things, particularly in relation to the intimate. A love scene is for me a total stake, because it is the whole stake of our life. You can’t represent love in a mediocre way. I want to show the love scenes as they have never been shown, to go into the intimacy of a scene where, finally, one appears to oneself and one appears to the other. Starring Léa Drucker and Samuel Kircher, Last summer chronicles an affair – and its aftermath – between a 17-year-old boy and a more mature woman.
No 3e flap to wings of desire
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Filmmaker Wim Wenders was in a very good mood at the press conference held on the sidelines of the presentation of Perfect Daysin the running for the Palme d’Or.
Wim Wenders clarified on Friday that the idea of a third feature film evoking angels is not in his plans. wings of desire won the prize for directing in 1987, and So far, so close!the Grand Prix in 1993. “Anyway, my angels are gone in the sky forever,” said the filmmaker, referring to Peter Falk and Bruno Ganz, the two stars of the wings of desire. “That said, this film [Perfect Days] comes a little closer to the concept of angels, he added. Hirayama [le protagoniste de l’histoire] is a bit like an angel, in that few people see him and he is invisible to most people. Perfect Days has a very spiritual aspect to me, we’re kind of in the same territory. Very well received by festival-goers, Perfect Dayskind of road movie existential built around the life of a man in love with music and literature who cleans public toilets in Tokyo, would be acquired by the American distribution company Neon, according to what reports the specialized site Deadline.
The prize Un certain regard à how to have sex
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Image taken from how to have sex. This first feature film by British director Molly Manning Walker won the Un Certain Regard prize.
Chaired by actor John C. Reilly, the jury of Un certain regard, the other official competitive section of the Cannes Film Festival, awarded the prize for best film to how to have sex. British director Molly Manning Walker’s feature debut follows a gang of teenagers on their party nights. In all, 6 of the 20 feature films selected in this section were awarded, but Simple as SylvainMonia Chokri’s film, did not make the honor roll, although it was warmly received.