The jury still has a few films left to see before the awards ceremony, this Saturday, May 25. That of Gilles Lellouche “L’amour ouf” with the couple Adèle Exarchopoulos and François Civil made the flashes crackle on the steps of the Palais des Festivals.
Exarchopoulos, Civil, Chabat… Love and stars on the Croisette and in the new film by Gilles Lellouche presented at Cannes.
But also a certain Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès and an Iranian exile, the filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof.
Overview of the names and information that is happening on May 23 at the 77th Cannes Film Festival.
Gilles Lellouche and his “Phew Love”
Six years after the popular success of Great BathGilles Lellouche is propelled into the race for the Palme d’or with Love phew. The film by the French actor and director brings together on screen two audience favorites, François Civil and Adèle Exarchopoulos.
On the red carpet and also on display: Elodie Bouchez, Alain Chabat, Vincent Lacoste, Jean-Pascal Zadi and Raphaël Quenard.
Besides, what is crazy love in “real life” according to the actor duo:
The film, adapted from a novel by Irishman Neville Thompson, takes place in the 1980s in the north of France, and tells the love story between Jackie and Clotaire who “grow up between the high school benches and the port docks“, according to the synopsis.
A couple, two eras: Jackie and Clotaire are played adults by François Civil and Adèle Exarchopoulos, and younger by actors at the start of their careers, Mallory Wanecque and Malik Frikah.
Move around… No controversy
Among the favorites for the Palme d’Or, the American Sean Baker feared thatAnorahis film about a sex worker, aroused controversy, but the enthusiastic reception at Cannes confirmed that the “oldest profession in the world” never ceases to fascinate.
It’s nice and a little surprising, because it seems like the movie so far hasn’t been as divisive as I thought it would be.
declared Sean Baker to AFP.
And yet, “We are dealing with extremely divisive themes at the moment.”
Anora follows a New York stripper and the young son of a Russian oligarch, who marry on a whim in Las Vegas, sparking the fury of the latter’s relatives.
A trashy comedy about Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès
Wanted since 2011 for the quintuple homicide of his family, the most famous French fugitive, Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès was seen in Cannes. In fact, it resurfaces in fiction in Plastic gunsone of the trashiest comedies of the 77th Festival.
Promises “not up to par”
Employees who called for a strike during the Festival denounced promises this Thursday “not up to par” of their demands, following a meeting with the public authorities.
The movement launched by a collective “precarious workers at film festivals” calls for the affiliation of all film festival employees to the intermittent regime, to guarantee their income.
They say they have been joined by festival representatives and unions on this demand.
When contacted by AFP, the Ministry of Culture and the Cannes Film Festival did not immediately respond.
From exile to the Croisette
The filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, who has just clandestinely fled Iran, has arrived on the Croisette. This Friday he presented his film in competition for the Palme d’Or.
The director, encountered in the Palais des Festivals, did not wish to answer questions from journalists before the official presentation of his film. He made his first public appearance at the Festival, after having managed to clandestinely flee the mullahs’ regime.
His new film Wild fig tree seeds promises to further disturb those in power, telling the story of an investigating judge gradually sinking into paranoia, at a time when huge demonstrations break out in the capital Tehran.
First charts
The begining of the end. The first prices are starting to be revealed. The International Critics’ Week, the jury of which was chaired by Sylvie Pialat, awarded its Grand Prize to Simon de la montaña by Federico Luis.
In the film, Lorenzo “Toto” Ferro (25) plays Simón, a boy who befriends a group of mentally disabled teenagers in a town in the Andes.
THE fanciest dinner
Like every year, the amfAR dinner takes place in one of the most beautiful palaces on the Côte d’Azur at Cap d’Antibes. Jess Gynne, Nick Jonas, Cher and Demi Moore have been announced as hosts of the evening.
Like every year, a spectacular fashion show is organized, featuring designer outfits auctioned off to raise funds for HIV/AIDS research.
To follow live (and without paying entry fees):
amfAR is one of the largest American and global foundations for funding AIDS prevention and medical research.
For Ariane Labed, an edition “clearly not feminist“
Despite some progress, the 77th Cannes Film Festival “is clearly not feminist” for the French actress Ariane Labed, involved in the #MeToo movement who has just presented September says, her first feature film as a director.
It’s clearly not a feminist edition, it will be a feminist edition when we are 50/50 in the programming because feminism is a question of equality (…) so we are not there but at the less we left room for Judith Godrèche to present her short film
Actress and director Ariane Labed.AFP
This Friday, May 24: George Lucas in the spotlight
After Francis Ford Coppola, it is the turn of his friend George Lucas to be honored. The father of the Star Wars saga does not come with a film to present, but to receive a prize: an honorary Palme d’Or.
Michel Hazanavicius returns to the Croisette with a very personal project, the animated film The Most Valuable of Goodsadaptation of the novel by Jean-Claude Grumberg.
And as mentioned above, presentation in competition of The Seed of The Sacred Fig of Mohammad Rasoulof who, sentenced to eight years in prison by the Iranian dictatorship, made the decision to exile himself from his country.