Euskaraz irakurri: Zinema, salaketak eta grebaren itzala, Cannesen

Today, May 14, begins the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festivalwhich will reveal its record on the 25th. The official festival program offers a lot to talk about: Francis Ford Coppola returns to the competition 45 years after winning the Palme d’Or with Apocalypse Now; Meryl Streep, George Lucas and the studies of animation Ghibliby Hayao Miyazaki, will receive the Palm of Honor; the Cannes Classics section will program Tasio on the film’s fortieth anniversary; and look for the Palme d’Oramong other directors, Sean Baker, Jacques Audiard, Yorgos Lanthimos, Andrea Arnold, Paolo Sorrentino and David Cronenberg.

In addition to all of them, Emma Stone, Chris Hemsworth, Anya Taylor-Joy, Jacob Elordi, Adam Driver, Selena Gómez, the next Donostia del Zinemaldia winner Cate Blanchett, Dustin Hoffman, Shia LaBeouf, will also be in Cannes defending their latest works. Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley or Dennis Quaid.

However, at least before the screenings begin, other topics have monopolized conversations about the festival: rumors about a new wave of complaints against abuse about women in cinema and the possibility of strike by different groups – from projectionists to communications managers – due to the precariousness of their conditions and the toughening of the conditions for access to unemployment decided by the French Government.

The French press has been speculating for weeks about the probable appearance of a list of ten big names in French film accused by women that could be revealed during the course of the Festival.

Aside from these speculations, the denunciation of the situation of women in the film industry will surely have a leading place in this edition due to the premiere of the short Moi aussi (‘Me Too’), directed by actress Judith Godrèche, within the ‘Un Certain Regard’ section.

Godrèche has become the great ambassador of the fight against abuse of women and children in the film industry in France after revealing, at the beginning of this year, that directors Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon abused her at the end of the eighties, when I was a teenager.

Furthermore, the Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulofwhich presents the film in the Official Section The seed of the sacred fighas announced that he has fled the country without permission from the authorities and has arrived in Europe “a few days ago”, which opens up the possibility of being in Cannes.

The director was sentenced to eight years in prison, lashes and the confiscation of his property for the crime of “collusion with the intention of committing crimes against the security of the country.”

Rasoulof, winner of the Berlin Golden Bear with ‘The Lives of Others’ in 2020, has had numerous problems with the country’s authorities and has been sentenced to prison terms on two occasions. Despite everything, he has assured on his networks “I am alive to tell…”.

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The movie Tasiowhich Montxo Armendáriz directed in 1984, will be restored, in digital format and 4K resolution, at the Cannes Film Festival, within its Cannes Classics section on May 15.

Source: Eitb

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