The day before the Palme d’Or awards, this Friday, May 25, marked the final day of the official competition. In particular, you can discover Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimère and Ken Loach’s Old Oak and make great encounters. Here’s what you shouldn’t miss:
Certain opinion: the winners
As usual, Un Certain Regard presented its prizes a day before the Palme d’Or. Taking a moment from this ceremony, the president of the jury, John S. Reilly treated the audience to more convincing a cappella while waiting for the Un Certain Regard prize winner to arrive at the Palace. And that latecomer was none other than Molly Manning Walker of the sultry How To Have Sex. As for the Jury Prize, it goes to Les Meutes, Kamal Lazraqi’s first Moroccan film. Augure (La Nouvelle Voix Prize), La Fleur de Buriti (L’Ensemble Prize), Goodbye Julia (Freedom Prize) and The Mother of All Lies (Director Prize for Asmae El Moudir) round out the entry.
More than a biopic, a film to continue the struggle?
“The goal is to make people turn a blind eye to the suffering of others. And above all, to never put up with someone else’s suffering.” Benjamin Lavergne was in Cannes at the start of the festival accompanied by Jeanne du Barry. He returned there for the last day of the fortnight, with L’Abbé Pierre, a life of struggle, echoing the life and struggle of a man who had stayed too long. “Favorite Man of the French”. The turn of the century, which humanizes this mythical figure and which also shares him, finally brings to light Lucie Coutas (Emmanuel Bercott), the shadowy woman who has accompanied him for forty years in his commitment against poverty.
“Having such an intimate portrait of this gentleman, who is absolutely extraordinary, is, in my opinion, a way to continue the struggle. We hope that it will also introduce him to new generations and continue his memory and obviously his action. He had a hard time. Acknowledging that we are making movies about it. I know that when Winter 54 came out, he said, “I don’t want to make a movie about me, but about my action.” I think the film will pay tribute to his struggle.”
Wim Wenders’s ‘Absolutely Crazy’ Cannes Memoir
This Friday, we had the privilege of catching up with the great Wim Wenders of Palme d’Or Paris, Texas to talk about his beautiful perfect days featured in the contest. But with Kahn’s regular presence at the microphone, first awarded in 1976, it is impossible not to ask him to evoke in the preamble a strong memory of his visits to the Croisette. Rather, a crazy memory! “Yeah, I’m having an absolutely crazy time”He lets go without thinking with a smile and a greedy eye.
“That was the year I presented ‘So Far, So Close’ in 1993. Louis Malley was the president of the jury. I was on the jury three years ago and I know that as a member of the jury we try not to touch the directors, so on the Croisette I walk, the film has already been shown and the cars of the jury are passing down the street. The first car, c, is that of Louis Malley, who is therefore the president. He sees me, stops the car and gets out. And there he does what he does not do when he is the president of the jury: he kisses me and says: “Look quickly , there are photographers! Take your wallet and give me the money! (bursts with laughter) I gave him 100 bullets, he took the money, he was sure that the photographers had captured the scene, then he gave it back to me and went back to his car. He wanted to show that I was paying him a bribe. We all laughed and Other cars went by. It was so amazing, Louis had an incredible sense of humour.”
He knows all about the northern regions!
Five years after presenting his first feature, Shehérazade, on the Croisette, Jean-Bernard Marlin returns to Cannes with Salem. This new opus, still located in the popular areas of Marseille, marks a milestone in his career. This time he colors his raw realism with flashes of fantasy. The gentleman put the (temporary) final touches on his film a few days before the festival. And it’s a pleasure to talk with him about the design of Salem, his love for non-professional actors and the light that constantly shines on the city of Marseille.
The best dog of the festival
As every year, the Dog Palm was awarded to reward the best dog featured in the film selection. For this 76th edition, border collie Messi was awarded the highest honor for his portrayal of Snoop in Justin Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall.
The Grand Jury Prize went to Chaplin, from Aki Kaurismack’s Les Feuilles Mortes, with a special mention for Sultan, the Staffordshire bull terrier who appeared in Stephane Castang’s Vincent Must Die. Meanwhile, Ken Loach’s The Old Oak received a special mention for Mara, the main character’s canine best friend.
And speaking of Ken Loach…
This is the double network we find on the Croisette… Ken Loach Presenting this year is The Old Oak, which may be his last film. And if that were the case, we’d be orphans of this militant and generous cinema that only Loach knows how to produce. And it is this humanity that we find in the most beautiful scenes old oakLike this solidarity banquet sequence where the kids gorge themselves on fish and chips and pizza.
A purely Japanese film à la Queer Palm
Queer Palm 2023 Hirokazu Kore-eda awarded Monster, a crime drama in competition that follows a young Minato whose behavior becomes increasingly disturbing. The mother, who is raising him alone after the death of her husband, decides to confront the educational team at her son’s school. Everything seemed to point to Minato’s teacher as being responsible for the problems the young boy was facing. But as the story unfolds through the eyes of a mother, a teacher, and a child, the truth turns out to be far more complex and nuanced than anyone initially expected…
The Queer Palm 2023 for short films went to Nans Laborde-Jourdaà for Bolero, which was also awarded at Critics’ Week.
We talked to Jane Fonda!
At 86, Jane Fonda is more energetic, radiant, engaged and caring than ever. Right in the middle of Buñuel’s room at the Palais des Festivals, he gave precious time to his fans, who wanted to know more and more about his career, just to talk to him and ask him all kinds of advice. We talked about the films he won’t do again unless they’re a challenge! She told us intimate anecdotes about Robert Redford, who was madly in love with her secretly in the first three films she made with her, but who she said did not like to kiss her (on the fourth of Our Souls in the Night) it developed and I only saw her repeated interruptions!), unlike Alain Delon (Les in Félins), who seemed to appreciate it!
He gave us the secrets of his life: 13 hours of sleep (!), walking, healthy eating and above all curiosity! Finally, she talked about her feminism and climate activism in particular, her fight in general, because she likes to insist, everything is connected. “There wouldn’t be climate problems if there weren’t patriarchy or racism. These are hierarchical systems. Everything is connected in commitment. You have to solve all the problems at once.” A fitting vision to match the hopeful message that filled the room and created a rare bubble of intimacy.
Elementary my dear… Adele!
Play at Pixar. An absolute dream for Adele Exarchopoulos, whom we met before the screening of Elementary at the closing ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival this Saturday. In the studio’s 27th feature film alongside the over-the-top Vincent Lacoste, she portrays the bubbly Flam Lumen, who brings her fiery temper to bear.
This is a dream come true! That’s what I’ve been asking my agent for years: “Please put me in the Pixar cast, please!” He told me to wait, he will come. It was my dream to have her. And when they called me, they said it was good, it was an immense joy. For example, this morning the trailer came out with our votes: I sent it to everyone, which I never do! Did you say we shot?
I am waiting for the golden palm branch…
Now in its eighth year on the Croisette, Positive Film Week highlights Cannes’ feature films that raise awareness and change the way viewers see the world. By inviting them, why not, get involved. The Positive Cinema Prize was awarded to Tunisian filmmaker Kouter Ben Hania, here with Positive Planet Foundation President Jacques Attali and 2023 Godfather Eric Judor. His film Les Filles d’Olfa, a unique device between cinema and documentary, marked this 76th festival. A good sign ahead of the prize list?
Rods at the finish line
A day before the arrival of the 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, the Gran Turismo team treated themselves to a photocall on the Croisette, complete with confetti and champagne. Orlando Bloom, Archie Madekwe, Geri Horner and director Neill Blomkamp made a short detour to the Carlton Pontoon to immortalize the moment and officially kick off the promotion for the famous video game adaptation (at least the awesome story that involves the video game license), expected on August 9, 2023. in cinemas.
And tomorrow night we’ll see the winners and our short podcast!
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