The final preparations in Croisette this Monday, May 12, on the eve of the opening of the 78th Cannes Film Festival in a world under tension, waiting for the arrival of the largest stars in world cinema, from Juliette Binche to Tom Cruise.
In front of tourists and passers-by, the teams of the Palais des Festivals took place on Sunday the official posters of this edition, celebrating the film couple formed by Jean-Louis Trintignant and Alouk Aimée, in A man and a womanPalma d’Or 1966.
Musicians have sung the theme of Mission: ImpossibleAs if to announce one of the most prominent aspects of this fortnight, the presentation this Wednesday, May 14 of the last part of the saga carried by Tom Cruise.
An Alain Delon exhibition
The 40,000 attendees of the accredited festival, from 160 countries, also began gathering the coast of Azur and the hotels and palaces of the Croisette.
And a missing star and a cinema legend, already pursues the streets: Alain Delon, who is the object of an exposure of unpublished photos. She celebrates the actor and the women who helped her in her career, in monumental format.
“I find that it is a very good period for Cannes, it brings many people, it causes an international influence, of course, and then the films, it is distraction, it is culture, it is art,” Syvie Lespagne enthusiast, a cannon nurse found by Video AFP.
The largest annual event in the seventh art is held until May 24, the date of the palm d’Or palma that will succeed Anora of the American Sean Baker.
Ukraine
General delegate Thierry Frémaux, director of an event followed by about 4,000 journalists, will give a press conference this Monday at 4 pm Monday.
The opportunity to establish the tone of an edition that opens in a world crossed by wars and the emergence of authoritarian regimes. Festival leaders should not stop remembering that they dedicated the opening day on Tuesday to Ukraine, with the projection of three documentaries.
“This program reminds us of the Cannes Film Festival’s commitment and its ability to tell the world’s challenges, which are those of our future thanks to film works,” they said.
Sexist and sexual violence
President Donald Trump, who sank the film industry in expectation by threatening to establish customs duties of 100% in foreign films, or the war in Gaza will also be in the spirits.
Thierry Frémaux could also be interrogated about the fight against gender discrimination and gender violence: French parliamentarians, who will make the trip during the event, asked the festival to develop in mid -April.
Possibility of the calendar, the opening ceremony will take place a few hours after the highly anticipated deliberation of the trial in Paris by Gérard Depardieu for sexual assault during a session.
President of Binoche
The jurors, whose president Juliette Binoche, a French actress with an international aura and a committed personality, as well as the American actress Halle Berry or the Franco-Morocana novelist Leïla Slimani, must arrive during the day on Monday.
The Big Cinema Festival will begin the next day, with the delivery of a golden palm of honor to Robert de Niro, 81. The French music star, Mylène Farmer, will take the stage to a surprise, perhaps an unprecedented title.
Another French singer, Juliette Armant, will be the star of the opening movie, Go to a dayA first feature film that comes out at the same time in cinemas. More than one hundred films will follow.
Twenty -two are running through the palm of which, from which Youths of the Dardenne brothers, the Belgian kings of social cinema already elavenant, and Alpha French Julia Ducournau, one of the seven competitions in competition, who expects a second title after that obtained for Titanium.
As for the newcomers, the Chinese bi, the American Ari Aster and the French Hafsia Herzi, the three, will take their first steps in the competition.
Source: BFM TV
