Tag: Cannes Film Festival
An honorary Palme d’Or to Ghibli, Miyazaki’s animation studio
Rather than only decorating Hayao Miyazaki, the studio’s best-known figure, whose public appearances are extremely rare, the Festival chose for the first time to award a collective Palm of Honor…
What will we see at the Filmmakers’ Fortnight?
Non-competitive, the Filmmakers’ Fortnight is dedicated to the discovery of new artists but has also included a few recognized authors in its 2024 selection. On the French side, the selector…
Obituary for Eleanor Coppola: The woman in the shadow of Francis – Culture
Instead of doing couples therapy, Eleanor Coppola made a movie. She was the wife of director Francis Ford Coppola for over sixty years, and she never made a secret of…
Cannes Film Festival: The Program – Culture
The Cannes Film Festival announces its program, and it sounds opulent: Francis Ford Coppola, Kevin Costner and others are showing their new films, and Greta Gerwig is chairing the jury.…
Audiard, Coppola, Cronenberg… The official selection will be “that of all records”
We already knew that Greta Gerwig, director of the blockbuster barbie, will chair the jury of the 77th Cannes Film Festival and Canadian director Xavier Dolan, that of the “Un…
“The Area of Interest” makes the horror of the Holocaust palpable without ever showing it
It was one of the shocks of the Cannes Film Festival. The Area of Interest by Jonathan Glazer saw the Palme d’Or pass under his nose in favor ofAnatomy of…
Macron (finally) congratulates Golden Globe-winning director Justine Triet
Awarded two Golden Globes on Sunday for her film Anatomy of a fall, Justine Triet received congratulations from Emmanuel Macron this Monday. The director had already been crowned with the…
“My robot friend” and his dog friend don’t need words to understand each other
After the fascinating Mars express by Jérémie Périn, My robot friend demonstrates that androids have not finished inspiring filmmakers and animators. Spanish director Pablo Berger is known for liking to…
The return of the all too rare Nahuel Pérez Biscayart
There are actors that we seem to see every day on our screens and others who know how to make themselves rare as if to better distill their talent. Nahuel…
Greta Gerwig, director of “Barbie”, will chair the jury of the 77th edition
She is one of the most prominent filmmakers of the moment. Greta Gerwig, director of barbie and leading figure of American auteur cinema, will chair the jury of the 77th…