Amphetamine, baldness, rape and betrayal: The newbieAn uncompromising biographical film of Donald Trump, in the race to regain the presidency of the United States, was presented on Monday, May 20, in competition at the Cannes Film Festival.
The feature film by Dano-Iranian Ali Abbasi, who takes his first steps in Hollywood after the films featured on the Croisette (EdgeUn Certain Regard Award in 2018, The nights of Mashhad in 2022), traces the real estate entrepreneur’s initiation journey in the 1970s and 1980s in New York.
Trump and his mentor
First portrayed as a somewhat naive careerist, Trump (played by Sebastian Stan, known for his role in Captain America) abandons his principles while discovering the tricks of power with his mentor, lawyer Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong of Succession), closely associated with McCarthyism and the New York mafia.
“Attack, attack, attack”, “never admit anything”: Trump will appropriate Cohn’s maxims and take advantage of the address book he has given him, before abandoning him to his fate, sick with AIDS.
assumed fiction
The film begins with a disclaimer stating that many of the events brought to the screen are fictional.
In one particularly powerful scene, Trump rapes his first wife, Ivana (Maria Bakalova). He is also seen taking amphetamine pills or undergoing liposuction and surgery to hide hair loss.
“We wanted to make a punk rock version of a historical film, which meant we had to maintain a certain energy, a certain spirit, (not) be too picky about the details and what’s true or false,” Abbasi recently told Vanity. Fair.
Trump’s demands
Which greatly displeases Donald Trump, whose campaign team announced “initiating legal proceedings against the totally false claims of these alleged filmmakers” and denounced a “purely malicious defamation.”
“This hodgepodge is pure fiction that sensationalizes long-debunked lies,” said Steven Cheung, spokesman for Donald Trump’s campaign team, in a statement sent to AFP.
The scene of The newbie It’s from Gabriel Sherman, a journalist who followed the New York real estate market in the 2000s and spoke regularly with Trump during this period.
french favorites
After seven days of screenings, “Emilia Pérez” is one of the favorites to succeed “Anatomy of a Fall”, by French director Justine Triet, and offer a second Palme d’Or to its French director, Jacques Audiard, after ” Dheepan (2015).
Among other very well received feature films, with 11 minutes of applause, stands out “The Substance”, a feminist honor film by French director Coralie Fargeat with a counterproductive Demi Moore.
The new film about Naples by the Italian Paolo Sorrentino on Tuesday, “L’amour ouf” by the Frenchman Gilles Lellouche, with the French couple Adèle Exarchopoulos/François Civil, on Thursday “The seeds of the wild fig tree” by the Iranian Mohammad are also expected with Rasoulof’s impatience, on Friday. The list of awards will be announced on Saturday.
Source: BFM TV
