(Cannes) Our special correspondent on the Croisette reports on the latest news from the Cannes Film Festival.
A love letter to France
In The passion of Dodin Bouffantselected in official competition, Juliette Binoche embodies a cook from the end of the 19the century which, with a renowned gastronome, works to prepare sumptuous meals, in a story celebrating the art of loving and the art of cooking. At the press conference table, the actress said on Thursday that she was particularly moved by the fact that this film was written and directed by Tran Anh Hùng. “Hung comes from Vietnam and adopted France as his country, which adopted him in return. For the “native” French people that we are, it is very moving to see this love of French refinement, which we tend to forget at home. This film is a love letter sent by Hùng to France. The filmmaker, for his part, declared that his original intention was very clear: to make a film that was “really very French”.
Nanni Moretti and the platforms
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Nanni Moretti came to Cannes to present his new film. Towards a bright future is in the running for the Palme d’Or.
It would be amazing if Nanni Moretti came up with a platform-only feature in the near future. Called to comment on Netflix sting he makes in Towards a bright future, an autofiction in which he himself plays the character of the filmmaker, the Italian director added during a press conference held on Thursday. “I talk about Netflix in the movie, but it’s a cross-platform symbol. Many screenwriters and filmmakers docilely defer to them and I don’t like that. When I write a screenplay, I think first and foremost of the movie theater and the big screen on which the images will be projected, rather than the 13-year-old watching a film on his mobile phone while taking the metro. We must continue to invest emotionally, psychologically and economically in cinema. It’s not what I think, it’s what I live! »
Quentin Tarantino clarifies…
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Quentin Tarantino was the guest of honor at the Quinzaine des cinéastes on Thursday.
Guest of honor at the Quinzaine des cinéastes, where he organized a screening of rolling thundera film that John Flynn directed in 1977 and whose stars were William Devane and Tommy Lee Jones, Quentin Tarantino gave more details about The Movie Critic, his next project. While the rumor evoked a film on the famous critic Pauline Kael, the director of Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood said, according to what reports the specialized site Deadline, that the story is rather inspired by “a guy who really lived, who wrote reviews in a porn magazine”. “He wrote about films general public and was utterly cynical, while being very funny, he added. His reviews were a mix of what Howard Stern was in his early days and what Travis Bickle would have written [le protagoniste de Taxi Driver] if he had been a film critic! »