storm, oh despair, oh bezos enemy – liberation
This Tuesday, May 20, the Alpes-Maritimes Department was placed in double rain-rude and thunderstorm yellow vigilance. The festival -goers will have had any hobbies to take advantage of the deluge throughout the day, in particular the criticisms of the Libé Cannes Crew tumbled to the projos in the state of dowels dipped before fidgeting the siege with noise of drowning on the high seas. At the week of criticism, a whole German delegation was found in panties in the toilet, to try desperately. At the morning projection in the Agnès-Varda room, whose daring architecture is divided between the fabric cathedral and the prefabricated, the noise of thunder has almost covered the sound of the film. Between two round trips in the storm, we also learned that Lauren Sánchez, the future Madame Jeff Bezos, who participated a month ago to a high mediatized blue space Who would have generated in 11 minutes the equivalent of the programs of a French driver over a year and a half, had been awarded Monday evening in Cannes by a prize for the Global Gift Gala for his ecological commitment. She came with her Dulciné, in Superyacht consuming nearly 2,000 liters of fuel per hour. However, IPCC researchers are categorical, no link exists between these two facts.
A simple accident of Jafar Panahi. In competition. In his new film shot when he was released from prison, Iranian, an eminent figure of dissent, tells the relationship between a victim and his executioner, during a virus in van. A criticism of the homeless regime. « A simple accident », criticizing Iranian yoke
Imago DE DENI OUMAR PITSAEV. Critics’ week. At the border between Docu and Self -Fiction, the filmmaker proves the Chechen community exiled in Georgia and his relationship to his father. « Imago », a documentary between tradition and paternity
Drunken Noodles by Lucio Castro. Acid. The superb film of the Argentinian on an art student who comes to spend the summer in New York mixes erotic adventures and love misadventures. « Drunken Noodles », we are not there, between noodles?
Middle class from Antony Cordier. Fifteen filmmakers. Served by an excellent casting, the creaky comedy imagines a young ex-prolo student who has become a peace agent between bourgeois and their employees. « Middle class », clash awareness
Indomitable by Thomas Ngijol. Fifteen filmmakers. Taken from real facts, the police thriller portrays a violent cop and endemic plagues in Cameroon without succeeding in finding a real depth of field. « Indomitable », climats Polar in Yaoundé
Once Upon a Time in Gaza from Tarzan and Arab Nasser. A certain look. A little bloodless, the last film of the Nasser brothers on a seller of Falafel sandwich forced to become an actor in a propaganda film has the merit of recalling that the Gazaoui cinema remains alive. « Once Upon a Time in Gaza », Chick weight
Weather by Hubert Charuel. A certain look. After the box Small peasant,, the second feature film of the French filmmaker on the (Mes) adventures a trio of friends scatter despite a promising start. « Weather », nuclear confusion
Highest 2 Lowest by Spike Lee. Outside competition. After a surprise golden palm given to his accomplice Denzel Washington, the filmmaker presented his remake of Kurosawa’s masterpiece on Monday May 19, May 19, on Monday May 19 May Between heaven and hell. Total disaster. « Highest 2 Lowest », crust what
First Nigerian filmmaker in Cannes selection with My Father’s Shadow,, Akinola Davies, cultivates a host of artistic influences in fruitful collaboration with his brother. Akinola Davies, surprise arty
Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, imprisoned for several months in Evin prison, returns to Cannes in competition with A simple accident. Despite the pressures, he continues to turn underground and refuses to leave his country. Interview
Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez are on a boat, ecology falls into the water. Monday, May 19, the billionaire’s fiancée received a prize to greet her « advocacy for climate justice ». That the couple came to pick up in their Superyacht 127 meters long. Ultrariches that dares everything, that’s what we recognize them
Behind the beautiful speeches, politics under the carpet. Ukraine, Gaza, Anti-Trump speech… If this 2025 edition seems ultra-political, behind the scenes, the precarious workers of the festival feel a hardening of their freedom of speech in the name of « security ».
Alphatigue. The official projection Monday evening ofAlpha, Julia Ducournau’s new filmwas shaken by an incident on the balcony, a spectator made a discomfort, people began to shout that it was necessary to interrupt the projection which continued, the firefighters leading their intervention in the incessant din of the film and exfiltrating the patient on a stretcher. It seems that there is no link between what the film shows and this failure. Moreover, Variety Humanized at 11 minutes 30 seconds the standing ovation for the film team, one of the longest for a film in competition. Variety as Hollywood Reporter, The two main American professional media are very reserved: « You have to recognize Ducournau the merit of having refused to set yourself or take the Hollywood route after winning the palm, but one can also wonder if his last film will appeal to someone other than himself », Can we read in Jordan Mintzer’s article, special envoy of Hr in Cannes.
Magling. Cannes would Cannes if we did not flee in front of a film? This year is the Magellan Diaz lav. We had nevertheless sent our specialist ès-Détroits et Caravelles, who threw in the towel after an hour of Hagarde wanderings of Gael García Bernal in the jungle (at one point he falls, everyone laughs, we wonder) and ritual songs ânonnés ad libs « Aki lolo » Hurred by the naked Philippin figurative, the journalist admits: he ran to the door and self -deprecated the right to eat something (it was 10:30 p.m.). In the queue before projection, distributors spoke of a full film version « Over 9 am » who would sleep in a trunk. We will say that we will look at it all calmly after the raout.
The game is simple: we give you an extract from a cinema criticism published in Release At the time, it’s up to you to find what film it is!
« Note that he floats in the film this permanent scatological fumet which becomes a real trademark (of a galaxy) of which almost all the work is visited by the cocu-prout paradigm. »
No less than three films in this year in this ninth day, to believe that the festival wants to finish us, but we get up to go see the third feature film by Carla Simón, Romería. Spanish, gold bear in Berlin in 2022 for Our sunshad signed the beautiful Summer 93 In 2017 and she was in a comprehe in for the first time. At his side, Joachim Trier (Julie in 12 chapters)) Return to Cannes with Affesjonsverdi (as it is pronounced) Around two sisters who see their father filmmaker land after many years of absence. And the South African filmmaker Oliver Hermanus between him too on track with History of Sound, Love story between two popular song collectors in New England in the 20s.
Elsewhere on the Croisette Jodie Foster plays a psychoanalyst whose patient disappears in Privacy by Rebecca Zlotowski (excluding competition), and Scarlett Johansson tumbles to a certain look with his first feature film Eleanor the Great, Who stages a nonagenarian trying to rebuild his life after the death of his best friend. The criticism will project his closing film, the intriguing animated feature film Planets which follows the fate of four Akenes of dandelion after a nuclear explosion.
