Powerful women, muzzled, victims of terrorism… They were all in the spotlight this Wednesday, May 15 at the Cannes Film Festival. Meryl Streep had a meeting with film professionals for a conference, Judith Godrèche, voice of the #MeToo movement, presented her short film on sexual violence and Anya Taylor-Joy ignited the climb for “Furiosa”.
Australian director George Miller returns to Cannes with Furiosa: a Mad Max saga, a new part of its post-apocalyptic universe, in which actress Anya Taylor-Joy reprises the role of Charlize Theron. This is one of the highlights of this day on the Croisette side.
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Laura Blajman-Kadar, survivor of the massacre perpetrated on October 7 by Hamas terrorists in Israel, came to walk the red carpet, wearing a dress adorned with photos. The world was thus able to see the faces of hostages still held in Gaza. An action under the scarf #BringThemHome, “bring them home”.
Furious evening
On the red carpet before the 7 p.m. out-of-competition session, Anya Taylor-Joy, 28. The actress plays a warrior who makes men bite the dust on the big screen in Furiosa. This new episode of the “Mad Max” saga, more precisely a prequel to “Fury Road” (2015), i.e. the youth of the character who was played by Charlize Theron, lasts 2h28.
Fans waited in front of the big palaces for director George Miller all day.
In this new opus, the director tells the story of the youth of his one-armed heroine, played by Anya Taylor-Joy (known for her many roles including that in the Netflix series Lady’s Gambit) with a thirst for revenge.
Its theatrical release is scheduled for May 22.
Start of the competition with a first film: Rough Diamond
The film Rough diamond is competing this Wednesday. Its director, Agathe Reidinger, signs her first film here! She tells us about her feature film, shot on the Côte d’Azur. Liane, a 19-year-old girl, sees reality TV as a way out.
We talk about #MeToo with Judith Godrèche
Me toodirected by Judith Godrèche, 52, was presented this Wednesday evening at the opening of the Un Certain Regard selection, at the Palais des Festivals and at the Cinéma de la Plage, for tourists and Cannes residents (see below.)
It is already a highlight of the Festival, seven years after the fall of former American producer Harvey Weinstein, and five months after the speech, in France, of the actress who accused two figures of the cinema of rape. The author, Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon.
During the market rise, the team appeared very united:
The actress shot this 17-minute short film for “give back a face“to a thousand victims. His daughter Tess Barthélémy is part of this project: “I’m always here to support her”, but “It’s his fight.” At the start of the year, the public discovered her in “Icon of French Cinema”, the series
semi-autobiographical by Judith Godrèche, who became the standard-bearer of the movement
#MeToo in France, after accusing directors Benoit Jacquot and Jacques Doillon of rape.
We learned today that the National Assembly’s commission of inquiry into the violence denounced in particular in cinema will submit its report “around November 4”with solutions
“concrete“of a legislative nature but not only that, its rapporteur and its president announced on Wednesday.
Second act press conference: #MeToo again
“There is more respect on film sets today”said Léa Seydoux on Wednesday during the film team conference The second act by Quentin Dupieux. The actress was reacting to questions about the #MeToo movement and the freedom to speak out about sexual assault in cinema.
“I see that there is respect on set, sometimes there is no longer this familiarity, even for intimate scenes. I feel this global change, that respect is more present,” declared the French actress.
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She also highlighted that her status as a recognized actress “protects” her. “It’s still when you’re a young actress that it’s more difficult. When we are vulnerable”, she pointed out.
Meryl Streep tells her story in Cannes
What she did with one of her Oscars (forgotten in the toilet), her relationship with Robert Redford or behind the scenes of Kramer versus Kramer, Meryl Streep revealed some secrets in the afternoon during a meeting with professionals.
Upon his entrance, a standing ovation and a minute of applause in the Debussy room of the Palais des Festivals:
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Meryl Streep tells her story in Cannes. His entrance in front of the professionals: a minute of applause.
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For more than an hour, anecdotes followed one another… sometimes naughty memories like that of the shampoo scene fromOut of Africa:
Roy, my hair and makeup artist, told Robert Redford how to wash my hair. He listened well, he applied himself and was great. By the fifth take, I was totally in love. It’s sort of a sex scene, it’s so intimate. We see so many scenes where people fuck but so little with this love, this care. I didn’t want this day to end, even with the hippos around!
“Do you have a network?”
Since this Wednesday morning around 4 a.m., hundreds of malfunctions have been reported on the network of the operator Bouygues Telecom. Cannes was affected, but also Le Cannet, Mougins, Mouans-Sartoux, then in the middle of the day Grasse, a large sector in the west of the Alpes-Maritimes department.
Is this failure the consequence of an overload of the network, due to the crowd linked to the opening of the Film Festival ? For the moment no… communication on the subject from Bouygues Telecom.
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Lhe former Miss France Iris Mittenaere arrived on the red carpet with a dress that raises the question: how does she sit?
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Your Wednesday evening in Cannes
Every day at 9:30 p.m., the Cannes Film Festival transforms Macé beach on the Croisette, located opposite the Majestic hotel, into an open-air cinema. It is free and open to all.
This Wednesday, screening in the news: the short film Me too Judith Godrèche will be screened at the beginning of the evening in the presence of the film team.0 It lasts 17 minutes. It will be followed of Flint and the city of Jean-Paul Guigue and Julien Berjeaut. 1h20 also in the presence of the film crew.