Cannes Film Festival Quiz: These films have opened and been forgotten by everyone!

Are you undefeated in the films that have been selected for the opening of the Cannes Film Festival over the years? Before Coupez !, Michel Hazanavicius’s new film screens tonight without competition and comes out all over France at once, check out your knowledge of skin and its opening films … which we sometimes forget they went through. Skin!

Three years after Jim Jarmusch’s dead do not die, it is Michelle Hazanavicius (artist, OSS 117 1 & 2) who offers a nourishing and bloody opening. Because the zombies will be in the Cut! Program, the Japanese movie Do not cut! Was read. The story of a horror movie is turned into a nightmare when the real living dead find themselves in front of the camera.

After The Silent Movie by The Artist and Jean-Luc Godard at Le Redoutable, we can already imagine the director playing the horror movie codes. And in the absence of zombies, on the first red carpet of this 75th edition will pass by him the revelation of Roman Dior, Beren Bejo, Jean-Pascal Zady, Gregory Gadebua, Finane Oldfield, Luana Bajrami or Agnes Hurstel (Revelation of June and Gol). .

For reference, cut! Michel Hazanavicius was forced to change the title of his next film as this film was again taken and put up as a symbol of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

This change followed an official letter from the Ukrainian Institute received at the Cannes Film Festival stating the use of the letter Z. “We believe that changing the title of the opening film would be a gesture against barbarism, violence and terror. “Russian Army”, in particular, reads the e-mail with which Variety was able to consult.

““Since the start of the war in Ukraine, considering the symbolic charge of the letter Z and at the request of Ukrainian filmmakers, I have decided to change the title of my film,” Michel Hazanavichius replied in a press release. The title might have been funny when we finished the movie a few months ago, it’s no longer funny and I can not wait.“

“My film is designed to bring joy and by no means do I want it to be directly or indirectly related to this war. I am therefore pleased to change it and to this extent express my full support for the Ukrainian people. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the production, distribution, promotion and exhibition team that made this decision.“

The film is expected to hit French cinemas this Tuesday, May 17, the day of Cannes’ presentation.