Martin Scorsese with De Niro and DiCaprio by his side. Todd Haynes surrounded by Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore. The days go by and look alike in the star-studded sky of the Cannes Film Festival. But who would complain?
Today’s event: Natalie Portman as Julianne Moore
How Natalie Portman managed to vampirize her partner Julianne Moore like she does in May-December by Todd Haynes? The first plays an actress preparing for a role. The second interprets the woman that the actress is supposed to embody, a mother who has been in prison years before for having seduced a 13-year-old teenager.
“We talked a lot between us, explains Natalie Portman during the press conference of the film, this Sunday. The film was put together very quickly and we only had a few days to build our performances together. It may look simple but it is a very complex process. Which she describes in the article that 20 minutes devotes to him and which could earn him an interpretation prize.
Quote of the day: De Niro “like with Trump”
Robert De Niro had promised that he would not talk about politics in Cannes. And even that he would not speak much in order to leave it to the representatives of the Native American people who are at the heart of Martin Scorsese’s latest film Killer of the flower moon. A true, terrible, shameful story, adapted from a book by journalist David Grann, The American Notereleased in 2018, and which fascinated Leonardo DiCaprio immediately bought the rights before offering Scorsese to direct the film.
“Martin Scorsese manages to underline what is human, even in the most cruel characters, referring to the uncle of his character played by De Niro. It’s a film, whatever the public will think of it, which is faithful to what happened. Hearing his name associated with a character whose actions he would be “very incapable of justifying”, Robert De Niro came out of his torpor. “It’s like with Trump. There are people who think he can do a good job. Imagine how crazy it is, ”said this notorious opponent of the former American president.
The controversy of the day: Small and big planes, small and big boats
On Saturday, activists from Extinction Rebellion (XR), Attac and ANV-COP21 “introduced remote-controlled cars equipped with smoke bombs onto the tarmac at Cannes-Mandelieu airport, thus blocking the way to a private jet. ‘getting ready to take off,’ Extinction Rebellion tweeted along with photos. Their goal: to denounce the pollution caused by the Cannes Film Festival: “Is it really time to burn those liters of kerosene to tread a few seconds on a Red Carpet? »
But it’s not just private jets that are targeted. Yachts too. Attac thus castigated the presence of a mega yacht 78 meters long in the port of Cannes.
The indiscretion of the day: is Godard really dead?
Director Jean-Luc Godard, who died last year, is honored in the Cannes Classics section. In addition to the restored copy of the Contempt screened at the start of the festival, festival-goers were able to discover this Sunday a new short film of twenty minutes. Billed as “the ultimate gesture of cinema” by the winner of a special Palme d’or in 2018 for the “trailer of the film that will never exist”. A film that would have been called phoney wars.
To be continued tomorrow: Dead leaves by Aki Kaurismaki
twelve years later Le Havre, Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki arrives to give his news, which we hope is good. We’ll see tomorrow.