Rant: The harder the fall will be…
Gala screenings look like lark mirrors. The ovations are in order after the film, intoxicating the teams who believe they have reached 7e sky. The harder the fall, because the critics can be fierce right after. Thus, the highly anticipated first two episodes of the series The Idol by Sam Levinson, with Lily Rose-Depp as a pop star who flirts with porn and the singer The Weeknd, will have been very badly received by the media, after their quarter of an hour of glory at the Palace. The sexism and cynicism of the tone shocked more than one. At a press conference, the team released their tape without saying much. But the filmmaker clarified that many pop idols use their sexual charisma to galvanize the public and that underestimating them does not help to understand the phenomenon.
Favorite: Kaurismäki, the inconsolable
During his own press conference, the great Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki, shy, clumsy, ruddy (he claims not to drink for ten years, laughing at his sentence), was moving, funny and stressed. Its brilliant, poetic and stylized film Dead leaves, about two loners saved by love, was enthusiastically received by critics. But the evil of living inhabits him as much as his tongue-in-cheek cinema is full of hats off to the masters of the 7e art that serves as its anchor. “There isn’t much humanity left in the world, he would say wistfully, but that’s all we have left…” How can we not respect this inconsolable man in perpetual quest for a ray of light?
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