A thirty-something who does not know how to direct her life. This is the portrait that Joachim Trier paints in Julie (in twelve chapters), Norwegian film of the competition. The director of Back Home reveals a brilliant actress, Renate Reinsve, but we can hardly imagine that the introspection of this young woman transports Spike Lee.
# CANNES2021 #CINEMA #AVP THE FRACTURE by Catherine Corsini. A plea for Yellow Vests and a vibrant tribute to caregivers, the pride of our Republic, which goes far beyond a political pamphlet. @Festival_Cannes @The pact https://t.co/XqqSbgywCd
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The President of the Jury might be more receptive to The divide by Catherine Corsini, a delightful social film with a virtuoso staging in which a middle-class woman embodied by Valéria Bruni-Tedeschi discovers the struggle of the yellow vests during a visit to the hospital. The director declared “to have wanted to show the France of today”. It succeeded !
Ari Folman (re) animates Anne Frank
Ari Folman, the director of Waltz with Bachir (2008) is back in Cannes for a new animated film just as engaged. Where is Anne Frank applies especially to the warnings against the extremes it contains. This modern tale, which offers a modern variation on the Anne Frank’s Diary in which a young Jewess recounts her joys and distresses as she hid with her family before dying under the yoke of the Nazis. “What matters is doing everything possible to preserve one soul,” says Ari Folman on the festival site. A message that earned him an ovation during the screening.
Jean Imbert invites his guests to the garden
The first Top Chef winner briefly took up his summer quarters on Nespresso beach to offer a vegetarian meal to a few happy festival-goers.
Even the recycled paper menu contained seeds and will give birth to plants as soon as it is planted. Jean Imbert, who will soon take over from Alain Ducasse at the Plaza Athénée, invited the guests “to invent their dishes by digging and picking”. A playful idea offering a border of vegetables planted in edible “earth” and flowers in pots to accommodate cheese ravioli. What to recover from the emotions caused by the 7th Art.
Oranges bleed on the Croisette
Warning ! Likely controversy! Blood oranges by Jean-Christophe Meurisse, presented out of competition in a midnight screening, practically only deals with annoying subjects.
Suicide, rape, indebtedness and politics are among the themes treated in this choral film with more humor than cowardice. What begins as a fantasy with chiseled dialogues turns to gore which really hurts in this picture of our country which spares nothing and no one. “I am aware that the film can provoke hostile reactions” confides the director to 20 minutes. We loved it!