2024-05-17 23:39:02
The Croisette has a false air of Hollywood on Friday: Emma Stone climbed the steps, topped with a second Oscar, Francis Ford Coppola sees himself nonetheless within the place in twenty years and Richard Gere and Uma Thurman return to the highlight.
After the success of “Poor Creatures” which strengthened his aura in Hollywood, the Greek Yorgos Lanthimos reunites together with his favourite actress, Emma Stone, for “Sorts of Kindness”.
This sketch movie, within the working for the Palme d’Or, additionally brings collectively veteran Willem Dafoe and actors Jesse Plemons and Margaret Qualley and can provide a really Hollywood pink carpet on the Cannes Movie Pageant.
The subsequent era may also be represented with Jacob Elordi, 26, within the highlight since he performed Elvis in “Priscilla.” He performs in “Oh, Canada”, a movie by Paul Schrader which marks his reunion with Richard Gere forty years following “American Gigolo”.
It guarantees to be twilight: tailored from one of many final novels by Russell Banks, who died final yr, it tells the story of an opponent of the Vietnam Struggle who fled america for Canada and who, on the finish of his life, reveals himself to a journalist.
Schrader succeeds one other eminent consultant of the New Hollywood, the cinema legend Francis Ford Coppola, who got here to defend his “Megalopolis”, a testamentary work screened the day earlier than, at a press convention. The movie, within the working for the Palme d’Or, deeply divided critics, with many journalists deeming it catastrophic.
No motive to be discouraged: Coppola introduced that, on the age of 85, he was making ready a brand new movie.
“I’ve already began writing,” he confided at a press convention. “I promise you, I’ll nonetheless be right here in 20 years!”, he even mentioned.
“Do what I wished”
The director who invested his private fortune to the tune of 120 million {dollars} to finance “Megalopolis”, a pharaonic mission, estimated that his kids had “superb careers” and that they due to this fact had “no must inherit of fortunes.”
Acquiring a 3rd Palme d’Or can be a primary within the historical past of Cannes. For Coppola, there are analogies between his return to the Croisette this yr and his arrival to defend “Apocalypse Now” in 1979, which earned him his second Palme, and was initially poorly obtained.
Within the first opinions of “Megalopolis”, the specialist website Deadline hailed it “a real fashionable masterpiece of the style that scandalizes with its sheer audacity”, however The Guardian described the movie as “bloated, boring and disconcerting superficiality.
The Hollywood Reporter mentioned the movie was “a shocking, bold huge swing, to say the least”, whereas the Occasions of London criticized its “cookie-cutter performances, cookie-cutter dialogue and its ugly photos.
“The movie is significantly disconcerting, particularly if we count on from Coppola an final masterpiece like within the nice period,” mentioned Le Monde. Telerama described the movie as a “disaster” and Libération known as it “an unbeatable and foggy retrofuturist peplum” which left its particular correspondents “shocked”.
“That’s how I wished to make the movie,” Coppola defended, including: “As I financed it, I instructed myself that I might do no matter I wished.”
In a nod to Hollywood historical past, Sawyer Spielberg, son of Steven, gave interviews together with his toes within the sand following taking part in in a small unbiased movie, “Christmas Eve In Miller’s Level”, introduced on the Quinzaine des filmmakers, the place he performs alongside… Francesca Scorsese.
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