Today’s event
Two amendments to the national collective agreement for film production were signed on Friday at the Cannes Film Festival, in the midst of the #MeToo wave in France.
The first amendment aims to improve “the training of technical and artistic teams” and “take into account the risks specific to certain professions, in particular by creating […] a role of referent on films or by defining recommendations for castings and the filming of intimate scenes”. The second amendment concerns the conditions of employment of artists under 16 years of age and the protection measures dedicated to them.
Sentence of the day
“ I promise you, I will still be here in twenty years. […] I know this project is finished because I have already started writing a new film. » »
At 85, Francis Ford Coppola has no plans to end his career. And it’s not the cold reception reserved for his film Megalopolis which will stop him in his prolific career. The director, who invested his personal fortune to the tune of $120 million to finance this pharaonic project, estimated that his children had “very good careers” and that they therefore had “no need to inherit fortunes “.
Man of the day: Nicolas Cage
The “great family of cinema” lives up to its name today since Nicolas Cage, who is none other than the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola, was today on the Croisette to present the film. The surfer by Lorcan Finnegan.
To continue the Hollywood family sagas, Sawyer Spielberg, son of Steven, gave interviews with his feet in the sand after starring in a small independent film, Christmas Eve In Miller’s Pointpresented at the Quinzaine des filmmakers, where he plays alongside… Francesca Scorsese.
The Cannes gossip of the day: Uma Thurman in the elevator
Photo of the day: Sublime Emma Stone
Emma Stone cheered by the crowd gathered at the foot of the steps. The actress came to present the film Kinds of Kindness by Yórgos Lánthimos, director of whom she became the muse.
Today’s theme: Back to the 1990s
We have a bit of the impression of taking a leap in time these last few hours in Cannes. Is this the famous “Cannes vortex” that Camille Cottin spoke of in her speech at the opening ceremony? In any case, festival-goers can enjoy the presence of big stars from the 1990s like Demi Moore, Uma Thurman, Richard Gere, Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe and Kevin Costner.