The first steps behind the House of Scarlett Johansson, the farewell of Tom Cruise in Mission: ImpossibleThe Palme d’Or a Robert de Niro … This is what should not be lost in the 78th Cannes Festival, which opens this Tuesday, May 13.
A first opening film
With Go to a dayThat the festival opens, the French director Amélie Bonnin wins the honors of a Cannes projection for his first film. Sacred pressure. “It’s super vertiginous,” he told AFP. This is where we are happy to be well surrounded. They are still moments when, paradoxically, we are very exposed and where there are many people, but where we can feel alone. “
Variation of a short film that had earned him a César in 2023 and already exhibited in the casting of French singer Juliette Armant and actor Cesarized Bastien Bouillon (The Night of 12) ,, Go to a day Cécile continues, a talented cook that is beaten by life while he is about to make his dream by opening a gourmet restaurant in Paris.
Forced to return to the village of his childhood to go to a father’s bed with fragile health and the acid verb (François Rollin), Cécile sees that his world was hesitated with a pregnancy test. He also submits to judgment in snobbery and betrayal of those who have never left the village and recover the way to a love for youth.
This comedy is also marked by the emergence in the history of varieties songs that actors interpret to reveal the soul of the characters in search of communication: So you still love me By Céline Dion, Words, letters Dalida, Cécile my daughter of nougaro but also Like your wife By K. Maro …
By Niro Palma d’Or
After Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, the festival continues its “New Hollywood” legends tour, this movement that revolutionized American cinema, and not only, of the 1970s.
This time is one of the mythical actors of his generation, Robert De Niro, who will climb the steps, to receive a gold palm of honor during the opening ceremony. At 81, the little thug that has become a formidable mafia in Scorsese is a great regular in Cannes.
“Bob” of Niro can remember the past, from Conductor taxi (Palma d’Or 1976) in Once upon a time in AmericaAnd it evokes the present: it is a fierce opponent of Donald Trump and has just publicly supported his transgender daughter, the rights of trans people in the viewfinder of the US President.
Impossible is not Tom Cruise
Bouquet final for a franchise opened thirty years ago by Brian de Palma: Wednesday, May 14, Tom Cruise will present the last part of Mission: Impossible.
Three years after guaranteeing the show in the croisette to GunThen, remembering the roof of the Stade of France during the closing ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games last summer, the American actor promises to overcome.
This Final calculationBlockbuster of the year, lasts 2:50 and has to go to French cinemas on May 21. From the infiltration of the Strong Chamber of the CIA to the Kremlin explosion, the film finally promises to give all the keys to Ethan Hunt fans.
Faithful to its habit, Tom Cruise continues the most spectacular waterfalls, fired without special effects, including a sequence in which it is hung on the wing of an airplane, turning 2,000 meters above the altitude by a wind at 225 km/h.
Tarantino and Chabat in master class
Quentin Tarantino, accustomed to the Cannes Film Festival, which gave him his golden palm by Pulp fiction In 1994, two discussions about Westerns by George Sherman in the section dedicated to the Cinema of Classic Cinema of Cannes.
Alain Chabat, actor, director and producer known for his absurd and subtle humor, will be the guest of honor of the fifteen filmmakers.
It will benefit from a white letter “whose surprise title will be revealed during the festival.” This projection will be followed by a master class during which he will return to “the comedies that made him laugh and marked his life and cinema.”
Animation at the Care Center
If the competition does not welcome any animated film this year, this medium is honored in the parallel selections. The most anticipated animated film of the Festival is this year a biographical film by Marcel Pagnol entitled Marcel and Mr. Pagnol. This movie will mark the return By sylvain chomet (Belleville’s Trillizos) To animation.
The rapper Sch, who signs the movie’s title, will make the trip to Croisette for the occasion. The film returns to the life of the author and director of Marseille, fifty years after his death. As president of the jury in 1955, Pagnol also presented the first Palm Golden in the history of the festival, which pays tribute this year.
SF movie Bow The welcome designer will also appear outside the competition. Planets, From the Japanese Momoko Seto, on the trip of the lion’s teeth survived by a nuclear explosion, he will close the 64th week of criticism. Finally, Angel EggMamoru oshii mamoru film (Ghost in the shell), will be screened in the beach cinema.
Actors behind the camera
Dedicated to the discoveries, the section of a certain respect is also this year that of the first films of actors who passed behind the camera.
In the new Wes Anderson poster, in competition, Scarlett Johansson will present his first film as director, Eleanor el Grande. At 40, the actress of Lost in translation AND Starting point It tells the story of a non -agenario (June Squibb) that moves to New York and seeks to build a friendship.
Revealed by the saga TwilightKristen Stewart, 35, signing on his side Water chronologyInspired by the history of a novelist and former swimmer who grew in a violent environment.
As for the British Harris Dickinson, Dick of Networks from No filter and Nicole Kidman’s lover in BabygirlHe will present Urchinat 28 years. A detour before his next role, that of John Lennon in a series of long and long films about the Beatles.
New guard
Together with safe values such as Jodie Foster or Denzel Washington, the new generation will also be on the screen. Among them, a couple of thirty and so many years that they no longer have to demonstrate, Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson, on the poster of a highly anticipated thriller in the competition (Die, my love of the British Lynne Ramsay).
Another very anticipated duo, Paul Mescal (the series Normal people, Gladiator 2) and Josh O’Connor (the series The crown, Challenging) They are playing gay romance The Sound Historyof Oliver Hermanus. O’Connor will also upload the steps for “The Mastermind” by the American Kelly Reichardt. These two films are in the race for the golden palm.
Other thirty who have the wind in their candles, Austin Butler (Elvis) and Emma Stone give the answer to Pedro Pascal (The last of us) and Joaquin Phoenix in a west of modern America signed Ari Aster, Eddington.
Wes Anderson hired the young Mia Threapleton, 24, to play the billionaire daughter played by Benicio del Toro in her new work, The Phoenician scheme. Unknown, the British can expect to become as much as his mother … certain Kate Winslet.
Source: BFM TV
