ALWAYS MORE STARS ON THE RED CARPET

The opening night was chaired by Thierry Frémaux and Iris Knobloch, Chiara Mastroianni was the mistress of ceremonies. Catherine Deneuve, face of the Festival on the poster, Johnny Depp and Maïwenn for the film “Jeanne du Barry” declared the opening. A special palme d’or was awarded to Michael Douglas for his entire career.

May 17

The rain was unfortunately there for the second climb of the steps. Romain Duris and Adèle Exarchopoulos came to defend the film in which they co-star: “The Animal Kingdom”. by Thomas Cailley in the “Un Certain Regard” selection. (“It’s one of the most beautiful scenarios I’ve read in my life. It’s a world in which the human species turns into animals…”, declared Adèle Exarchopoulos.

On the American side, the duo Ethan Hawk and Pedro Amadovar came to Cannes for the out-of-competition short film “Strange Way of Life”, a queer western, in which Ethan Hawk is a cowboy in love.

The screening of the film “Kaibutsu” (Monster), a thriller about the bonds between a mother, her son and the latter’s teacher, attracted many festival-goers. It must be said that Irokazu Kore-eda has become a regular at the festival. It is in competition at Cannes for the 7th time. He received the Palme d’Or in 2018 for “Une Affaire de famille” and the Jury Prize in 2013 for “Tel Père, Tel Fils”. Since 1939, the year the festival was created, Japan has only won 5 Palmes d’Or.

We were also able to attend the climb of the steps for the film “The Return” by Catherine Corsini, in competition – Feature films.

May 17 was also the opening day of Critics’ Week with the ceremony and screening of “Ama Gloria” by Marie Amachokeli. In the Cannes Classics-Copies Restorées selection, we saw “Caligula-The Ultimate Cut”. Finally, the screening of “Laisse-moi” by Maxime Rappaz opened the Acid.

At the beach cinema, we were supposed to screen “Le sens de la Fête” by Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache.

May 18

The 5th part of Indiana Jones, “Indiana Jones and the dial of destiny” marked the day of May 18 with the presence of the film crew during the climb of the steps. Harrison Ford was accompanied by his wife, actress Calista Flockhart, but also many other guests, including Jean-Michel Jarre and his wife, actress Gong Li, 93-year-old Amazonian chef Raoni, singer Bilal Hassani, rappers OrelSan and Abdul-Malik. Robert Charlebois or the Indian actress and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai Bachachan

The other film of the day was “Rosalie” by Stéphanie Di Giusto in the “Un certain regard” selection. The actors climbed the steps with Benoît Magimel, Gustave Kerven, Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Juliette Armanet, Benjamin Biolay and his daughter Anna.

On the press conference side, Catherine Corsini raised a new controversy with the accusations relating to her sometimes harsh behavior during the filming of the film. The film was first excluded from the official selection and then reinstated a few days later. In addition, a CNC grant was withdrawn (a very rare occurrence) for a scene of an undeclared sexual nature.

The film “Le Retour” also displeased the 50 – 50 collective, which works for parity, equality and diversity in cinema and audiovisual and denounced in a press release, “a devastating signal sent to victims of gender-based violence and sexual as well as a way to reinforce the collusion that reigns in the film industry and which prevents free speech on this “crucial” subject Producer Marc Missonier even called for a boycott of Cannes (#Boycott Cannes).

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