Cannes 2023 Day 7: Ecology, Pop and Vomit, 9 Moments You Shouldn’t Miss

As usual, the AlloCiné team is on stage to experience and experience the event, as well as the discoveries, surprises and unforeseen events that accompany it. For this new daily summary, check back on May 22.

Have we found a successor to Sans Filtre?

Jessica Hausner from Austria submitted her Club Zero to the competition. Co-produced by the subversive Ulrich Seidl, the feature film delves into the everyday life of a specially selected school. Disturbing, to the point of offering one of the real shock scenes of this Cannes fortnight. It seems to be a serious competitor to Palm Club Zero Tailored for Jury President Ruben Östlund.

Discomfort with the key!

The shock scene in question, “Skin Vomiting Scene 2023”, sees a young woman, convinced of the virtues of her new conscious diet, regurgitate food before re-infusing the mixture (!) under the horrified gaze of her parents. Elsa Zilberstein and Matthew Demmy). and disgusted looks from the audience. Among the Cannes crowd, Variety reports that one person (at least) was forced to leave the room, while several others looked away and stared. Eat well, of course!

pop steps…

It was the most anticipated and most popular midnight screening of the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. Sulfur’s reputation was preceded by the first two episodes of The Idol series (very sexy, according to the first reactions of the Théâtre Lumière release). Opened with the presence of The Weeknd (Abe Tesfaye), the influence and music of Lily Rose Depp and guests such as Travis Scott or Jen from Blackpink.

… and was appointed

“One shot is equivalent to 37 round trips from Paris to New York in terms of CO2 emissions”. Under the leadership of Cyril Dion, many film professionals from all sectors of the 7th art (directors, actors, technicians, viewers, producers, exhibitors, programmers, etc.) benefited from the rising markets. Club Zero To run CUT! (Cinéma Uni pour la Transition), the first film collective that acts in the face of environmental threats. To know more: https://www.cut-collectif.fr/

A series B dynamite skin (at night)

Set up on the bridge. The rabid dogs attack the survivors. thick fog This is the menu for Project Silence, the slightly insane South Korean thriller presented at the Séance de Minuit in Cannes. Directed by Lee Sun-kyun, who can be seen in the credits of Parasite, Kim Tae-gon’s film, written by Busan’s Last Train screenwriter, is not without its faults. far from there. But his generosity and his WTF side carry the piece: there is a lot of action, it is sometimes very funny, sometimes very kitsch, the word Nanari is never far away, we like the scene, we are annoyed by others, but we are never bored. And if all that was, after all, a recipe for a good Series B?

Smart and affordable

Les Feuilles mortes, Aki Kaurismak’s new feature film presented in competition, tells the story of a meeting between two lonely people whose budding love is thwarted by fate. There we find the hobbies of the filmmaker, namely two proletarians who will meet and live a complicated love story, as well as radio, which only deals with disasters, covers of musical standards in the Finnish version and the presentation of work with obvious hardships. Dead leaves approaches it all with a gentleness that never detracts from the story it tells or its characters. A very intelligent film accessible to the general public, which is undoubtedly its greatest strength.

In support of Scorsese

The general public is mostly familiar with Howard Shore for his scores for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies. We must not forget the rest of his impressive career from the end of the 70s and especially his regular collaboration with Martin Scorsese (After Hours, Gangs of New York, The Aviator, Les Infiltrés or Hugo Cabret). The director of Slap of the Flower Moon Killers came to call him personally and unexpectedly invited him to participate on stage in his maestro’s music lesson.

skirt day

Among the best costumes of Cannes 2023 was the Queer Palm 2023 jury. John Cameron Mitchell (president of this jury) and director Zeno Gratton (now with Le Paradis) walked up the stairs in skirts, accompanied by other members. Jury, Louise Chevilot, Cedric Suchival and Isabel Sandoval.

Every year, the Cannes Film Festival awards the “Queer Palm”, which aims to distinguish films (short and long).Dealing with LGBT+ themes or characters, feminists or gender norms“.

At the AlloCiné microphone, one of the jury members, actress Luisa Chevilot, who recently saw Lucy Borletto in My Only Desire, spoke to us about what she expects from queer works. “I expect to see stories that are mostly not featured. I expect somewhat new dramaturgies, relationships between beings that are beyond the shackles of society or morality. We are in a world where the dominant model is heteronormativity.”

and add:When you discover queer cinema or even queer environments in general, I realize that this is a real freedom, an emancipation of the gaze, because the stories are reinvented because they have no rules to respect..”

“There is also a question: is this a work of cinema? Queer Palm founder Frank Finanz Madureira told us, “We’re here to celebrate a piece of cinema, not to say who was the best purveyor of good queer scores.” The main thing is cinemaQueer Palm Verdict, this Friday, May 26th.

Incognito golden palm branch

They spotted incognito at the Grand Theater Lumiere… Nuri Bilge Ceylan. The director, already Palme for Winter Sleep, which was again this year in the Dry Herbs competition, was in the audience to discover the film in the opposite competition, Justin Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall.