The rain really invited him to the Croisette. Therefore, festival-goers had to brave the rain to discover these new daytime films in Cannes. But the main thing is very strong surprises, including a film whose rumors are already predicting the award of the prize list.
As usual, the AlloCiné team is on stage to experience and introduce you to the competition, as well as the discoveries, surprises and unexpected events that accompany it. For this new daily recap, check back on May 19, which marks the return of the famous adventurer.
Palma is likely to have the first shock
What does the reverse shot of barbarism look like? Britain’s Jonathan Glazer answers this question with The Zone of Interest, presented in competition at the 76th Cannes Film Festival. It follows the daily life of a family living just one wall away from Auschwitz.
Inevitably provocative, this concept allows the director to explore the darkest face of humanity, deaf and blind in the face of cruelty. Can we really get used to cruelty and invite it into our daily lives? between traditional and experimental cinema, area of interest Especially shocking because it shows nothing. Everything is behind the screen.
The film presented in the competition is already a favorite for the Palme d’Or.
Sensation from Great Britain
The Cannes Film Festival loves these moments when a film causes a sensation and seems to be unanimous everywhere. This Friday, on the Certain Regard side, How to Have Sex went straight into that category. With its catchy title, Molly Manning Walker’s first feature film has a lot of nice features: real ideas for cinema, a solid script, a sexy theme (young people holding on to all temptations)… but beneath that layer is a very strong statement about , how to “sleep” with someone when you’re young, and especially the concept of the gray area, or consent. The cast of the film is flawless. I bet you will hear about this film distributed by the same film publisher (Condor) as Charlotte Wells’ famous Aftersun starring Paul Mescall.
Transatlantic session of the day
Project a movie on the navigator, feet in the water or almost! This is a good idea from the Cannes Film Festival, which has chosen to screen the biographical film Flo, dedicated to the navigator Florence Artaud, as part of the Cinéma de la plage.
Cinéma de la plage is one of the institutions of the festival: sunbeds, a giant screen by the sea and a film screening, with free admission and without accreditation. Opening the festival to the people of Cannes, the entire fortnight, weather permitting. For Flo, directed by navigator Geraldine Danone, a lovely downpour occasionally appeared as a 4D session, including spray!
Flo tells the story of Florence Artaud’s life as a fighter and a free woman, with very successful scenes at sea, but also the beginning of a controversy about how the navigator and her surroundings are portrayed. As it turned out, even a trial episode was opened France Inter. Florence Artaud is played by Stéphane Caillard, who was spotted in the series Marseille on Netflix. The film will be released in theaters on November 29.
Harrison Ford’s beauty secret
But how is he still so bold at 80? Harrison Ford revealed this mystery at a press conference for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, where he was asked how he managed to stay sexy and compete with Madis Mikkelsen: “I’m lucky to have this body. Thanks for noticing”He admitted, which caused cheers from the journalists present.
“Sometimes I get it”
Last year’s Palme d’Or winner, Ruben Östlund’s unfiltered, vomit-inducing sequence, brought it back to life in cinema. Thus, the aforementioned How to Have Sex, with its drunken moments, is not free from presumptuous scenes.
On the French cinema side, the Critics’ Week pick, Vincent Must Die, also features a startling hidden vomit scene. In this first feature film by Stéphane Castang, Karim Lecleux portrays an ordinary man who is attacked, for no apparent reason, by people who cross his path. In one scene, he fights a postman in excrement, and the substance and smell don’t help, Kareem Lecloux’s character spits out a nice drop of vomit.
Barbarian invasions
Whether it’s a short film or a feature film, Bertrand Mandico’s film leaves no one indifferent. And this is one of his greatest qualities, his visual talent, which he uses to explore genres (cinematic and sexual), in stories where theater and cinema merge. With great reinforcement, very often, with all kinds of liquids.
Robert E. A female reinterpretation of Howard’s fantasy novels, previously adapted by Arnold Schwarzenegger, Conan does not leave a mark in her filmography. Sublime black and white and bursts of color make for some graphic and striking scenes. Like this moment when her heroin-poisoned foes vomit hemoglobin (yes, what a day) from her care. Hence the term “Blood Spray”.
Ceylon is beautiful
3h17 isn’t the longest running record for the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, but it’s Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s, which beats Palme d’Or’s Winter Sleep by that count. As usual, the filmmaker mixes visual beauty and realistic dialogue in the story of a teacher who is desperate to leave his village. With the exception of one particularly surprising scene that goes against the general tone, Les Herbes secs is not boring and at times fascinating.
But we have to admit that the Turkish filmmaker will face resistance from the festival goers. And especially during the two (long) scenes that take place around the spring, with the sound of water flowing, which accompanies the exchange between the two characters, and certainly did not make the little bubbles happy.
Omar Marczvi set fire to the midnight meeting
Elias Belkedar’s first feature film as a director, screenwriter of My Glory Days and Athena, Omar La Frazee premiered this Friday, May 19, at midnight screenings. The stars of the film, Reda Katheb, Benoit Magimel and Meriem Amar, climbed the stairs to the music and greeted the room with great energy.
An energy that didn’t wane after the screening, after Omar La Frazee’s team were treated to a standing ovation. This delightful comedy about the escape and downfall of two renegade gangsters in Algeria hits theaters on May 24.
…with a sensitive rapper
When you’re told that Roger, one of Omar La Frazee’s two main characters, is a mobster who can improvise a poolside rap, do you imagine Benoit Magimel in his shoes? no And it is the genius of the actor’s performance in this first feature film, which combines comedy and thriller.
Refined, funny and disturbing, the actor once again recalls his talent and presents himself as one of the rare actors who can pull off a role that doesn’t seem like him at all on paper. Has Cesar ever won three years in a row?
CGT takes action
They promised action, but the ban on demonstrations around the palace seems to have dampened their ambitions. But no: CGT members did demonstrate outside the Carlton to protest against pension reform.
Source: Allocine
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