A demonstration, three films, a bomb threat… In the credits of Friday May 19 at the 76th Cannes Film Festival: news and action and cinema of course.
Cannes Film Festival – 4e daytime. Competition and social protest on the menu for May 19: three films, including that of Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Palme d’or in 2014. Also on the bill, the CGT, which had called for a rally in front of the Carlton to protest against the pension reform.
- Climbing the steps with Cate Blanchett in particular
Cate Blanchett is in Cannes to present Warwick Thornton’s film, “The New Boy”, entered in the Un Certain Regard selection this year. This Saturday, she will be expected to take part in the “Women In Motion” talk, dedicated to the representation of women and diversity in cinema.
Around 1:30 p.m. this Friday, May 19, the Palais des Festivals in Cannes shuddered. A police intervention intervened after the discovery of a suspicious package near the site. More fear than harm ! In 1978, it was another story, to discover here.
“The Zone of Interest”, by Jonathan Glazer, based on a novel by Briton Martin Amis published in 2014, did not fail to fuel controversy this Friday: set in Auschwitz, the story tells that of an officer Nazi who fell in love with the wife of the commandant of the extermination camp.
- “The girls of Olfa” by Kaouther Ben Hania in competition
Kaouther Ben Hania climbed the stairs for “Les filles d’Olfa”. With this feature film, the 45-year-old director delivers a film “on the edge of the essay”, according to Thierry Frémaux, general delegate of the Festival, on a Tunisian woman confronted with the disappearance of two of her four daughters. A prominent figure in the new wave of Maghreb cinema, Kaouther Ben Hania directed “The Man Who Sold His Skin” in 2020, the first Tunisian film selected for the Oscars.
- “Dried herbs”, in competition with Nuri Bilge Ceylan
The Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Palme d’or in 2014 for Winter sleep, presented his film “Dried herbs” in competition.
- Will you take a little Indiana Jones again?
After his crazy day in Cannes on Thursday, Harrison Ford (haloed with an honorary Palme d’Or) took part in the press conference for the latest episode of the adventurer’s saga “Indiana Jones and the Sundial”:
The young French actor Ethann Isidore, who plays alongside the star, was a media darling this Friday.
- Virginie Efira as a regular at the Cannes Film Festival
Virginie Efira was eagerly awaited on the red carpet to defend “Love and forests”, which is released in theaters on Wednesday. “Nothing to Lose”, by Delphine Deloget, this adaptation of the novel of the same title by Eric Reinhardt, Renaudot Prize for high school students in 2014, is one of the two feature films presented by the Franco-Belgian actress at Cannes. Efira plays not one but two roles: those of two twin sisters, one of whom falls madly in love with a childhood friend, found by chance, and played by Melvil Poupaud (His quirky interview).
- “Flo”, dedicated to navigator Florence Arthaud, is making waves
Géraldine Danon’s feature film is presented out of competition this Friday at the Cinéma de la plage. A film attacked by the family of the sportswoman who disappeared in 2015. Relatives accuse him of portraying her in an unflattering light.
- Today’s weather report: rain
And if not in the sky above the stars, the stars… More rain.
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- On the program for this Saturday: Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert de Niro, Brendan Fraser…
It is one of the most anticipated films of the 76th Cannes Film Festival. American director Martin Scorsese will present his new film “Killers of the Flower Moon”. This is the first time since 1986 that the filmmaker has presented a film at the mythical international festival of the 7th art.
The trailer for Martin Scorsese’s latest feature film, “Killers of the Flower Moon”, has been released online.
An out-of-competition screening. Martin Scorsese has been developing the film for six years. Duration of this film: 3h26!