Valérie Lemercier is always so funny! “Without the pandemic, I wouldn’t be here because Aline would be released last November, she said at a press conference. I echo Shakespeare’s words that what cannot be avoided must be embraced. »The screening ofAline, presented Wednesday evening out of competition, allowed the actress and director of this fantasized biography of Celine Dion to go up the Marches with her Quebec performers.
“I took advantage of the confinement to clean my house,” she added. This perfectionist took the opportunity of these extra months to refine her work. “I would have gone so far as to steal the film to change things, but there is a point where you have to let go,” she admits. This tender reinterpretation of an international song myth is a success. Valérie Lemercier now dreams that Celine Dion will see Aline and will love it.
We could see Asghar Farhadi receiving the palm
Since the screening of his film A hero, the filmmaker Asghar Farhadi is the favorite for the Palme d’Or. It’s very simple: just listen in the halls or in the Palais des Festivals to hear his name attached to the supreme award.
What if Asghar Farhadi obtained the Palme d’Or for #A hero at # Cannes2021 ? I wouldn’t mind …@Festival_Cannes @20 minutes @ementodistrib pic.twitter.com/JfMnC0PD3J
– Vié Caroline (@Caroklouk) July 14, 2021
Three years later Everybody Knows, the Iranian director returns to his roots by delivering a moral tale about a man whom a good deed will lead into a spiral of lies. “I am not someone who is going to express himself through hysteria. I prefer to arouse reflection, questioning through my films, ”he hammered at the press conference. A principle which allows him to avoid censorship in his country and which still succeeds him just as well in festivals.
Gilles Lellouche taken to task
North Bac by Cédric Jimenez does not go with the back of the spoon to describe the work of the police in the difficult districts of Marseille. This effective thriller, presented out of competition, adopts the point of view of law enforcement officials embodied by Karim Leklou, François Civil and Gilles Lellouche. The latter was put back in his place at the film conference when he laughed at the
words from an irish journalist reproaching the filmmaker for portraying the inhabitants of cities as animals and for encouraging Marine Le Pen to vote.
Very calm, the director of the film has dotted the “i”. “I have tried to show areas which have great difficulties which can appear truly hostile. But I don’t think we have to settle that with a radical vote, ”he said, nipping the start of a controversy in the bud.
The Larrieu brothers blackmail Cannes
Tralala, it is the very well-found title of the new film by Jean-Marie and Arnaud Larrieu who had not returned to Cannes since Paint or make love in 2005. It is in Lourdes, their hometown that the brothers shot this musical presented yesterday in midnight screening. “For us, Lourdes, it was natural! We were ready to come back to it by assuming our status as filmmakers, ”they said. Mathieu Amalric, Mélanie Thierry, Maïwenn and Josiane Balasko have entered into their delirium. The latter took advantage of the rise of the Marches to film and take photos in order to feed
his Instagram account.