The Cannes Film Festival stored its red carpet this Saturday, May 24, after two weeks of competition marked by the coronation of the Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi and a certain renewal of his album.
Two UFO films that reward, a young French actress who exploits the screen, the failure of American cinema, but also the nth award of the Dardenne brothers: returns to this 78th edition, whose closing ceremony attracted 2.3 million spectators in front of the television channel of France 2, less than last year (2.5 million on average).
Call “freedom” in Iran
Granting the gold palm to A simple accidentThe jury crowned a work that, for its only existence, defies the draconian rules imposed by the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The film was filmed clandestinely by a dissident, its main actresses appear there without a veil and entails a frontal complaint of torture inflicted in prisons and corruption in the country.
After Wild fig seeds From Mohammad Rasooulof, a special prize in 2024, the festival confirms its vocation to defend Iranian combat cinema in front of censorship and offer a powerful echo camera to dissidents.
“The most important thing at this time is our country and it is the freedom of our country,” Panahi said upon receiving his prize against world cinema gratina.
Nadia Melliti revelation
Before lending your athletic silhouette to The last little one From Hafsia Herzi, he had never made theater or cinema.
At 23, Nadia Melliti, seen during a wild casting, received the women’s interpretation award for her role, embodied while delicacy, from a young Muslim who discovered her homosexuality. Nadia Melliti is from a family of immigrants and studies in a sports sector.
For Hafsia Herzi, the choice of this actress has been established as “evidence” when he saw the photo of the young woman, who “abandoned himself completely to the character.”
Other beginner actresses were revealed in Cannes, such as the Frenchman Adèle Exarchopoulos in 2013 in Adèle’s life or the Belgian Emilie Dequenne in 1999 in Rosetta.
American flop
The biggest stars of Hollywood cinema, including Robert de Niro and Denzel Washington, who received gold palms, made the steps shine.
But, in the rooms of the Palais Des festivals, the Americans made a failure. Great productions, like Eddington ARI ASTER with Joaquin Phoenix or Die, my love From Lynne Ramsay with Jennifer Lawrence, he gave empty hands.
Invited to guarantee the off -competion program, Tom Cruise did not pack the criticism with his Mission: ImpossibleHe appeared as the last of the series but not the best.
From Higher 2 lower De Spike Lee and Denzel Washington, is one of the most mocked films by critics: “A crust” for liberation, a “Nanar” for first.
Two “UFOs”
Two non -classifiable films had the favors of the lists: SIRAT of Oliver Laxe de Franco-Spanish, jury prize, and Resurrection Bi Gan Chino, Special Prize.
Lunar epopal in an environment in the Mad MaxThe first immediately captures the spectator: a Rave party in the Moroccan desert is interrupted by the army and some teufos will escape, with a father in search of their daughter. Follow a long walk under substances in the context of war and apocalypse.
The second is a quasir religious tribute to a century of seventh art. This poetic and sensory film of 2:40, which is full of aesthetic findings and sequence plans, brush the history of cinema in the twentieth century.
It ceased as “UFOs” by the president of the jury, Juliette Binoche, the film is completely airtight and pretentious to others. These can close their eyes to be lulled by the soundtrack, signed by the French electro duo M83.
Eternal Dardenne
Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne left Cannes with a seventh prize in ten teams in competition: the stage for the stage for Youthsthat follows the destinations of teenage mothers trying to get out of precariousness, in the pure vein of their social cinema.
In addition, the interpretation rewards for two of its actors (Émilie Dequenne for Rosetta In 1999 and Olivier Gourmet for The Son In 2002), they still dig, more than 70 years, its advance in the top of the most awarded filmmakers in the Croisette, ahead of the American Francis Ford Coppola or the British Ken Loach.
Source: BFM TV
