Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel, the top of French cinema, were expected this Wednesday evening at the foot of the steps for the presentation of The Passion of Dodin Bouffant by Franco-Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung. In its international version, the title of the film is translated The Pot-au-feu.
The event of the day: The delicacies of Binoche and Magimel
An event that makes your mouth water. The Passion of Dodin Bouffant : the most literary of our readers know that it is an adaptation of a Comics by Mathieu Burniat. We follow the love story between the gastronome Dodin, played by Magimel, and his cook Eugénie, played by Binoche. A culinary intimacy (and more if affinity) to which the two actors, who lived together, were undoubtedly familiar.
Image of the day: Tom Hanks’ glare
If the teamAsteroid City displayed a broad smile at the top of the stairs, a few minutes earlier, the photographers immortalized an astonishing scene… We see Tom Hanks, his face tense, getting angry with an employee of the Palais des Festivals. The image did not fail to make the rounds of social networks.
Before Rita Wilson, his wife, restores the truth about this apparently stormy exchange. But no, Tommy wasn’t angry, he just didn’t understand how to make his way to join Wes Anderson’s film crew on the red carpet. ” I can not hear you. People are screaming. What did you say ? Where should we go? This is what he asks the employee. Last year, a scene happened on another red carpet: the same dark look from the actor because a fan had almost knocked his wife down. “Stop that! Step back, you’re knocking my wife down,” he cried.
Quote of the day: Kitano can do better
I will return to Cannes with a better film next time”
This is what Takeshi Kitano assured festival-goers after the screening of his film. Kubi in the Cannes Premieres section. The Japanese filmmaker presented his latest film, the first since Outrage Coda in 2017, a luxurious production on clans that are torn apart in 1582, with Takeshi-san himself in the role of a cruel leader nicknamed the Primate. The director, who had already tried his hand at historical film with Zatoichi in 2003, goes even further in the jubilant and crazy delirium.
To be continued tomorrow: Breillat, Wenders and Tarantino
Catherine Breillat had not made a film for ten years. Here is the most sulphurous of French directors with a poisonous family story where Léa Drucker, a brilliant lawyer, falls under the spell of the son of her husband’s first marriage. We will also closely follow the return to competition of Wim Wenders with a film shot in Japan. At the same time, at the Quinzaine des cinéastes, Quentin Tarantino will give a cinema lesson a bit like the one he had given end of March at the Grand Rex.