Two more days and it’s the end of the Cannes Film Festival. La Semaine de la critique delivered its first awards yesterday and, on the competition side, there is already talk of favorites for the Palme d’Or. Among them, the Chinese Wang Bing, the French Justine Triet, the Finn Aki Kaurismaki and above all…
Today’s event: Nanni Moretti at the top
Did Nanni Moretti climb the steps Towards a bright future? At 69, the Italian director has in any case enchanted the Croisette by offering himself a new role as a filmmaker at work, rather dashing even if somewhat overwhelmed by the working methods of his contemporaries, and whose illusions, sentimental and political , ended up falling one after the other. Here is a film by a filmmaker, about cinema, without sentimentality or nostalgia, simply touching and successful.
Quote of the day: “I agree to be an appetizing dish” (Juliette Binoche)
“I agree to share the limelight with food and to be considered as an appetizing dish”, confided Juliette Binoche to 20 minutes. Yesterday, she was climbing the stairs to The Passion of Dodin Bouffant by Tran Anh Hung, a love story (with Benoît Magimel, her ex, and food, therefore) screened in competition.
Image of the day: Winnie Harlow shows his marks
Suffering from vitiligo, the Canadian supermodel Winnie Harlow caused a sensation this Wednesday during the climb of the steps of the French film The Passion of Dodin Bouffant.
Born in Toronto to parents of Jamaican descent, Winnie Harlowreal name Chantelle Brown Young, suffers from vitiligo, a depigmentation of the skin, since the age of 4 years. Revealed in 2014, during the telecrochet America’s Next Top Model, she appears in the clip of Guts Over Fear of Eminem, in duet with the singer Sia. She has taken the habit, for a few years, of treading the red carpets, in Cannes or elsewhere, as an ambassador for this still little known disease.
The reward of the day: “Tiger stripes”, a Malaysian gore Grand Prix
The Critics’ Week jury, chaired by Audrey Diwan (The Event), presented Wednesday evening its Grand Prix to the Malaysian Amanda Nell Got for tiger stripes, a fantastic film about puberty mixing humor and horror. A tale of emancipation, the film follows 12-year-old Zaffan, who lives in a small rural community in Malaysia and watches his body transform at an alarming rate. Sometimes gory, this movie is in some ways compared to Severe by Julia Ducournau, herself discovered at Critics’ Week in 2016 before being awarded the Palme d’Or in 2021 for Titanium.
Figure of the day: more than 14,000 accredited
“The Marché du film broke an attendance record this year with more than 14,000 accredited professionals from more than 120 countries, more than the previous record of 12,500 accredited which dated back to 2019,” Guillaume Esmiol told AFP. . “We exceed the figures from before the Covid crisis, which is an excellent indicator”, commented the deputy director of this meeting of producers, distributors, exporters and importers, created in 1959.
To be continued tomorrow: Ken Loach’s der
The very last film in competition will be screened tomorrow evening at 6:30 p.m. It is The Old Oak of the veteran Ken Loach, 86, already twice palmed gold for The wind picks up in 2006 and for I, Daniel Blake in 2016. The pass of three for what is likely to be his very last film and his twentieth participation in Cannes? Why not.