Hollywood Boulevard airs on the Croisette, the race for the Palme d’Or and an upgrade that can originate from the directors: the 76 th Cannes Film Festival will open on Tuesday 16 May.
The 7th production of this arthouse, captured up in the strike of movie artists that has actually stopped recording in the United States, will be directed to the Palais des Festivals from May 16 to 27.
Because, a year after producing an occasion with “Elvis” and “Top Gun: Maverick”, Cannes, where a hundred movies will be displayed in all locations, verifies its idyll with Hollywood.
Movie stars like Harrison Ford will rise: at the age of 80, the star gets the outfit of the archaeologist Indiana Jones for the 5th installation of the legend envisioned by Georges Lucas and gave the screen by Steven Spielberg.
Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Brie Larson … on the red carpet
Coming from among the most significant American studios, Warner, the brand-new president of the celebration, Iris Knobloch, will have the chance to welcome numerous other Hollywood stars.
Among them: Martin Scorsese, who pertained to provide his most current movie with his preferred stars Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio, the star Michael Douglas (” Wall Street”, “Basic Instinct”) who will get the Palme d’or honor, or Pedro The really popular Pascal, the hero of the series “The Last of United States”, who shows Ethan Hawke the poster of gay love and western sauce, an indistinguishable brief movie by Pedro Almodovar.
The brand-new generation has actually not been forgotten: Brie Larson, aka “Captain Marvel”, signs up with the Palme d’Or jury at the age of 33, in addition to Paul Dano (” Little Miss Sunshine”, “The Fabelmans”), and pop star The Weeknd will illuminate the red carpet for his ‘The Idol’ series, starring Lily-Rose Depp.
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21 films in development
Major studios have actually reacted to the call of the Côte d’Azur, a platform consisting of the existence of Apple, which will for that reason launch its movies, like that of Scorsese, initially in movie theaters. The Netflix giant continues to disregard this guideline, which is strictly implemented in competitors.
An overall of 21 movies remain in the going to acquire the 2022 Palme d’Or, “Without Filter”. Its director, Ruben Östlund of Sweden, is the chairman of the jury this year.
Filmmakers such as the Italian Nanni Moretti, the Turkish Nuri Bilge Ceylan, the Japanese Hirokazu Kore-Eda or the German Wim Wenders are trying to find a 2nd Palme, while at the age of 86, the Englishman Ken Loach is attempting to score a historical hat-trick.
Record the variety of 7 directors
In a male-dominated movie market whose efforts are still inadequate to accomplish equality, the main competitors picked a record variety of 7 female directors.
The latter remains quite in the minority, however the arrival of these artists, who are more youthful than their male equivalents, adds to the renewal of the celebration and sends out a signal to the whole market.
Just like Ramata-Toulaye Sy, the 36- year-old Franco-Senegal director, stood apart in the competitors for the Palme d’Or with his extremely first movie, “Banel et Adama”.
The lead characters of this upgrade, filmmakers Julia Ducournau (Palme d’or in 2021 with “Titane”) and Audrey Diwan (Lion d’Or the very same year with “L’Evénement”) sign up with the jury of the main competitors which of the Critics. ‘Wiki.
Johnny Depp in “Jeanne du Barry” directed by Maïwenn
As for the opening movie, “Jeanne du Barry”, it assures not to leave anybody indifferent.
Its director, Maïwenn, is the one grumbled about by reporter Edwy Plenel, who apparently assaulted her in a dining establishment.
He puts himself there as the favorite of King Louis XV, played by Johnny Depp, the star of “Pirate of the Caribbean”, naturally on the American sets considering that allegations of domestic violence and after that shared allegations of character assassination with his ex-wife Amber Heard.
At the end of the extremely advertised court soap program, and unjustly revealing the possible violence, Depp attempted to return through Cannes, the night of the opening event, May 16.
The next day, the discussion in the competitors of the movie “The Return” by Catherine Corsini might likewise make waves: its public financing was withdrawn for not revealing, as the law supplies, the recording of a specific however simulated sexual scene, including a star under the age of 16.
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