The controversy of the day is the one triggered, unwittingly, by Pio Marmaï. The actor, who plays a yellow vest in the very successful The divide by Catherine Corsini, quoted a line of her character at a press conference.
“Macron, I would like to go to his place and bang his face off”He launched, before expressing his opinion, much more moderate, on his desire to simply have a conversation with the President of the Republic.
Just listen to the entire excerpt from #PioMarmai to know that the words he says are not about him but about the character he is playing.pic.twitter.com/lxD01uAhCp
– Jean Hugon 🇵🇸 (@ JeanHugon3) July 11, 2021
Some did not miss take the quote out of context and even the former Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner, ill-informed,
seasoned the poor comedian on Twitter by accusing him of calling for vulgar violence. Pio Marmaï, “very affected” according to his entourage questioned by 20 minutes, left on a shoot deeply hurt by what was only a misunderstanding.
Catherine Deneuve, luminous
Catherine Deneuve plays a mother who has to face the incurable disease of her child played by Benoit Magimel in the upsetting In his lifetime by Emmanuelle Bercot, screened out of competition. The 70-year-old actress received great applause before and after the screening. But above all, she appeared radiant and totally recovered from the vascular accident which had interrupted the shooting of the film.
“I was very moved to see the affection people have for me,” she said at a press conference, after briefly removing her bright pink mask.
Sean Penn, papa hen
He was not little proud, Sean Penn to present the touching Flag Day, in competition. It is not only because he has reserved for himself a tasty role of mythomaniac father. It’s also because he’s directing his own daughter, Dylan Penn, as the hero’s daughter there. “The first face I had in mind for the role was Dylan,” he said. But there is no similarity other than our love for each other in the relationship between the characters in the film and ourselves in life. “
Cannes is committed to the climate, the proof
Thierry Frémaux had announced this by creating, among other things, a new Cinema for the Climate section: the Cannes Film Festival will become increasingly green. This is what we confirmed the signatories of Climate Forum movement
# We are ready, published in The world at a press conference i. “We can no longer speak of ecological problems but of survival”, hammered Louis Garrel, very involved in the movement baptized
# We are ready. Cyril Dion, co-director of Demain, for his part wanted to see more cinematographic fictions that do not just show apocalyptic situations. “It’s time to make films that offer solutions to get out of it,” he said to thunderous applause.
NTM at the top of the Marches
It was party time on the Steps when JoeyStarr rode them with the crew of Supreme by Audrey Estrougo. A excited audience awaited the film crew which evokes the genesis of the NTM group.
“NTM to # Cannes2021, that is the demand of the people ! “Joeystarr with Theo Christine and Sandor Funtek for the marches of the film Suprêmes in a midnight screening on the Croisette pic.twitter.com/oHZPIgq7FF
– CANAL + Cinema (@CanalplusCinema) July 10, 2021
Théo Christine (who plays a young JoeyStarr) and Sandor Funtek (who plays a KoolShen in the making) were particularly applauded and all have do the show this Saturday in midnight session.