Italian director Nanni Moretti is back in competition for the Palme d’Or with “Towards a Bright Future”. The feature film “La Passion de Dodin Bouffant” with Juliette Binoche presented. A wave of grossophobic comments against Léna Situations. Summary of the day of May 24 at the Cannes Film Festival.
One week ! Since last Wednesday, the race for the Palme d’Or is in full swing. What he remembered from the competition, gossip, information on the Croisette on May 24.
- Italy in competition
After Bellochio this Tuesday evening, it was the Italian director Nanni Moretti who arrived this 24 friend in competition for the Palme d’or with “Il Sol Dell’Avvenire”a film that earned him a ninth official selection in his career.
The 69-year-old Italian filmmaker, who won the Palme d’Or in 2001 with “La chambre du fils” presents this new mise en abyme, which promises to carry its share of nostalgia, on cinema, political commitment and the changing world.
- A Franco-Vietnamese film is on the table
“La Passion de Dodin Bouffant”, by Franco-Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung, with Juliette Binoche and Benoit Magimel, is an adaptation of the eponymous comic strip by Mathieu Burniat. A film screened at 6:30 p.m.
The film tells the love story between the gourmet Dodin and his cook Eugénie. This outstanding cook in the service of Dodin Bouffant, who is played by Benoit Magimel:
- Virginie Efira and Melvil Pouvaud
A star duo on the steps this Wednesday for the thriller “Love and forests”. Actress and director Valérie Donzelli returns to the Croisette with this adaptation of Eric Reinhardt’s novel, which deals with the hold of a man over his companion.
The film is presented out of competition, in the Cannes Première selection.
- Organizers’ response to greenwashing attacks
This Wednesday, May 24, the South Pavilion hosted a press conference presenting the future environmental projects supported by the Cannes Film Festival to offset its carbon footprint. The opportunity to respond to the controversy related to the financing of a project in Africa which has hit the headlines.
François Desrousseaux, Secretary General of the Cannes Film Festival, has confirmed the end of the collaboration with South Pole. The Swiss company in charge of the decried project, linked to Lake Kariba, financed at around 380,000 euros excluding tax by the Cannes event.
- A baby on the red carpet
The image may surprise and is rare: a very young baby in the arms of his mother on the steps of the Palais des Festivals in Cannes. Julie Viez, the producer of Jim Jarmusch’s film “Return to Reason” caused a sensation and reacted this Tuesday, May 23 by appearing “as a mom”.
- Léna Situations attacked by grossophobes
Léna Mahfouf alias Léna Situations denounced comments on Instagram. Attacks on his physique following sclimbed the stairs for the screening of “The Idol”.
“I’ve been more or less comfortable with my body…until the last few months. I’ve gained weight I’m aware of that, my body type has changed, I’m aware of that, but the internet realized it before me and would like to share it,” said Léna Mahfouf, already the victim of harassment on several occasions online.
Lena Situations.
L’Espérance de Cannes and the Académie provençale de Cannes, meeting at Le Suquet with David Lisnard and the jury of the 76th Cannes Film Festival for two traditions: the signing of the city’s Golden Book and the mayor’s Aïoli offered to the press.
A meal offered on the large square overlooking the port of Cannes.
- The reaction of the mayor of Cannes to the actions of the CGT
Since the beginning of the Festival, the CGT has carried out several actions and demonstrations. Latest, this Tuesday noon, on the sidelines of a demonstration of the CGT Energy against the pension reform, a power cut on the Croisette.
Response from LR Mayor David Lisnard: “the CGT has totally failed to disrupt the festival (which it likes to attend so much, until asking for a special session for its members last Sunday) but has succeeded (a little) in penalizing the world of work.”
The Cannes Film Festival and the CGT are not just demonstrations and actions for this 76th edition. It is also a common story. From the outset, the CGT was one of the members of the event’s board of directors.
- The countess of Barry on the podium of theatrical releases
Presented at the opening of the Cannes Film Festival, the film “Jeanne du Barry” by Maïwenn, which traces the idyll between King Louis XV (Johnny Depp) and his famous favorite, entered the third step of the podium with 401,181 spectators since its release on Tuesday, May 16.
- This Thursday a surprise signed Tarantino
The French Catherine Breillat presents her latest film this May 25, “Last summer”, and will climb the steps alongside its main actress, Léa Drucker.
The Fortnight of Filmmakers welcomes director Quentin Tarantino this Thursday to present a “surprise movie” And “discuss his counter-history of cinema“.