Today’s event: Cannes triumph for the team of “A little thing in addition”
The Artus film team A little something extrawith actors with mental disabilities, a big hit in theaters with already more than 3 million admissions, took the steps of the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday.
The Artus band, all smiles, was very applauded and walked the red carpet to the sound of Organized gang.
“There will be eleven actors with disabilities and four classics, four boring ones we’ll say,” laughed the director of the film and actor Artus, specifying that the latter were himself, Clovis Cornillac, Alice Belaïdi and Céline Grossard. The film crew also experienced a crowd bath while going up the Croisette.
Furthermore, Artus will be the guest of the Union of Cinema Professionals with Disabilities (SPCH) on Friday on the beach of the National Cinema Center in Cannes, for a debate as part of Positive Cinema Week. The debate will include Fadila Khattabi, Minister Delegate for the Elderly and People with Disabilities.
A little something extra is not selected in Cannes. In 1996, the film the eighth day by Jaco Van Dormael won a joint acting prize for Daniel Auteuil and Pascal Duquenne, an actor with Down syndrome.
Sentence of the day:
“ Don’t talk to me in that tone! »
It’s not the scandal of the century, but in a fortnight particularly poor in scandals and celebrity controversies, we take what we find… So, Kelly Rowland, American R’n’B singer, is a not very heated on the red carpet with a security agent who, asking her to hurry, accidentally stepped on her dress.
Film of the day: “Motel destino” by Karim Aïnouz
Brazilian director Karim Aïnouz delivers, with Motel Destinoan “erotic wandering plot, in shimmering colors”, if we are to believe the presentation made by the festival. The film takes place in Ceará, a city in the Brazilian Northeast where the temperature is 30 degrees all year round. Every night at the Destino Motel, intrigues of desire and violence mingle. This is where young Heraldo arrives… A pornographic comedy film according to its director, who cites the Brazilian tradition of “pornochanchada”, Motel Destino is an x-ray of a Brazilian youth without future or hope that only violence still animates.
The Cannes gossip of the day:
Photo of the day: Sorority in Cannes
Ariane Labed (second from left) and her actresses from the film September SayingsMia Tharia, Pascale Kann and Rakhee Thakrar, reproduced Judith Godrèche’s sign at the start of the festival to denounce the “silence” of women victims of sexual violence.