longs by the American Sean Baker, a New York thriller that moves from the underworld to the luxurious villas of Russian oligarchs, received this Saturday the 25th the supreme prize of the Seventh Art: the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Festival.
“This film is magnificent, full of humanity (…) It broke our hearts,” declared the president of the jury and director of Barbie Greta Gerwig before presenting him with the award. longs It starts like a fairy tale, between Cinderella AND Beautiful womanbefore moving into drama and then moving on to downright comedic sequences.
Anora (Mikey Madison) is an escort girl in a seedy club. One night she meets Vanya (Mark Eydelshteyn), the son of a rich Russian oligarch. She knows some Russian: her grandmother, an immigrant to the United States, never learned English. We trust the client. She manages to take her number. They see each other again.
drum driven
Anora discovers money without knowing what to do with it, a life of celebration and carelessness. Vanya’s parents stayed in Russia on business and entrusted the priest of the local Orthodox church to watch over him. But when Anora and Vanya decide to get married, things go off the rails and the parents try to intervene.
As the gangsters arrive at Vanya’s house to cancel their marriage, he flees, leaving Anora alone in their hands. The young woman and her henchmen are forced to search for Vanya in the recesses of the Russian-speaking community of Coney Island.
This 2h18 film, driven at full speed, surprises by highlighting its heroine, Anora, who stands firm and even ridicules this world of men corrupted by money. From the religious to the petty bandits to the ultra-rich, everyone gets their fair share.
No release date
While tackling similar themes to Sean Baker’s previous films, such as Tangerine AND The Florida project, longs is his most comical film to date: when the trio of gangsters arrive at the newlyweds’ house, the audience expects an explosion of violence and ends with a trio with broken arms.
“I always try to explore how far I can go with comedy,” the director explained to AFP last week. “There is always a balance between comedy and pathos. Life is a balance between these two elements, so you have to make people laugh until they cry.”
longs It does not yet have a release date in France. Its American distributor, the independent studio Neon, should release it at the end of the year for the Oscars campaign. Particularly known in the United States, there he has awarded the last four Palme d’Ors, including Anatomy of a fall.that accompanied the Oscars.
Source: BFM TV
