The Cannes Film Festival kicks off on Tuesday the 16th the 76th edition full of Hollywood stars and tribute to a generation of filmmakers including Pedro Almodóvar and Martin Scorsese, and with hopes pinned on new values of Asia and Africa.
Hollywood has been plunged into a writers’ strike that has forced the cancellation of countless shoots, and Cannes will, more than ever, if possible, the next two weeks, from 16 to 27 May, the great center of the moviegoers.
Johnny Depp and his daughter Lily-Rose, Pedro Almodóvar and Pedro Pascal, Margot Robbie, The Weeknd and Natalie Portman: these are some of the names that will draw all eyes on the red carpet.
More than two decades later, Depp returns to the festival after a famous libel lawsuit he won against his ex-wife Amber Heard, albeit at the cost of losing many Hollywood integers.
Pedro Almodóvar will present a short film western and barely 25 minutes gay, featuring two Hollywood heartthrobs, Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal.
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Harrison Ford’s last adventure as Indiana Jones
After showing Jeanne du Barrywith Johnny Depp, Cannes later becomes one long, almost unbroken catwalk of stars.
Harrison Ford, who resurrects Indiana Jones at age 80, presents the fifth episode of the well-known adventurer: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Fate.
the veteran Michael Douglas (aged 78) receives an honorary Palme d’Or for his career.
and the acclaimed Martin Scorsese presents a film about multiple serial murders of indigenous peoples in the turbulent United States of the 1920s (Killers of the Flower Moon)starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
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The indigenous theme is very present this year: in addition to Scorsese, a chilean movie, settlers, by Felipe Galvez, deals with the brutal treatment of the Ona minority in Tierra del Fuego, in the Un Certain Regard section.
In that same section, the Brazilian Crow, about the life and struggles of the Kraho people in the middle of the jungle, by Joao Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora.
Total, a dozen Ibero-American films have been shot in the different sections of Cannes.
Seven women for the Palme d’Or
The festival also hosts the first Mongolian film, hopeless, and a Sudanese Goodbye Julia, The first work of Mohammed Kordofai.
Also noteworthy are Win Wenders, who presents two films in different sections, or Wes Anderson, with asteroid City, a film full of famous names: Tom Hanks, Margot Robbie, Scarlet Johansson.
Of the 21 films competing for the Palme d’Or, seven are directed by women, a record for the competition.
The chairman of the festival jury is the winner of last year’s Palme d’Or, the Swedish director Ruben Ostlund.
Oscar winner, Natalie Portman arrives at Cannes with Julianne Moore to defend the film by American director Todd Haynes. may december, compete for the Palme d’Or.
Strong security measures
The 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival takes place with an important police deployment that will pay extra attention to possible demonstrations in a socially tense context in France.
A thousand policemen, gendarmes and private security agents will ensure the security of the event for which 4,500 journalists are accredited and which usually draws crowds of spectators and movie stars.
France is living a turbulent period marked by massive demonstrations rejecting an unpopular pension reform that has been proclaimed by Liberal President Emmanuel Macron in mid-April.
Source: Eluniverso
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