Yes Everything went well, Wednesday evening for André Dussollier, Sophie Marceau and Géraldine Pailhas, it was the same for the two new films presented this Thursday in competition: Ahed’s Knee and Lingui, the sacred bonds. After François Ozon on assisted suicide, the Israeli Nadav Lapid virulently denounces the lack of freedom of expression in his country, while the Chadian Mahamat-Saleh Haroun exposes the injustices suffered by women in his, pointing out their solidarity for to escape the dictates of men.
These two new films resonate with the news of the world, and have every chance for the prize list “under the sign of the fight” that the jury of Spike Lee will return on Saturday July 17th. But this day of Thursday was especially marked by three films from the new Cannes Premieres section, which are all documentaries or rather portraits.
Jane Birkin seen by Charlotte Gainsbourg
It’s our favorite movie of the day. A very pleasant moment of complicity between Jane Birkin and her daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg, who paints her portrait very delicately: Jane by Charlotte.
“It was a long journey,” Charlotte Gainsbourg said on stage, talking about what led her to discover her mother, in every sense of the word. The looks that the two women keep throwing at each other in front of the enthusiastic festival-goers who have come to welcome them are a pleasure to see. The film will hit theaters on October 27.
The Velvet Underground as seen by Todd Haynes
Full of music on the Croisette! After Annette by Leos Carax at the opening, and Jane by Charlotte we just talked about, here is The Velvet Underground, the tribute of Todd Haynes to the group popularized by Andy Warhol in the 1960s. “I did not want to make a film” sex, drugs and rock’n’roll “, entrusted the filmmaker to 20 minutes. I wanted to talk more about their creation and how avant-garde music and cinema were intertwined at that time. “His documentary brings together rare archive footage in which Lou Reed, John Cale and Nico appear radiant with youth and which will be available on Apple TV + from October 15.
The Luma cow seen by Andrea Arnold
Third film in the section: Cow of Briton Andrea Arnold, that 20 minutes did not see (we cannot see everything) but
had very good echoes. The film tells the story of Luma, a cow filmed at cow’s height, that is to say without a farmer or the slightest human intervention. And with, it seems, an “incredible twist in the last third of the film”. We will talk about it again when it is released.