Favorite: the return of ocean liners
I don’t know if we should be happy about that. After all, large cruise ships are shaking up the ecosystem of the cities that receive their hordes of passengers. But after the pandemic episode, their gigantic silhouettes, in the distance in the bay of Cannes, seem to announce a return to normal – whatever this normality. And then some of these liners are beautiful, cut out in front of the Estérel mountains with the same majesty. So we admire them in passing, like aquatic dinosaurs who refuse their announced death.
Rant: the spittoon to men
France is still macho; the Cannes Film Festival too. We saw it again in this symposium of filmmakers which rolled around on Tuesday and Wednesday, questioning the future of cinema. So few directors have taken the spittoon, but why? Priority goes to men; a manifestly unconscious bias. Which is almost worse. Especially since in France, there are many of them shooting, often with crazy talent. But at the time of major discussions, they are invited less. As if the cinematic tomorrows did not belong to them, or so little. What they are wrong…
Odile Tremblay is the guest of the Cannes Film Festival.
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