2023-05-21 18:30:45
PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP
At the 76th Cannes Film Festival, Robert De Niro compared, this Sunday, May 21, Trump to the Machiavellian character he plays in the film Killers of the Flower Moon.
CULTURE – It burned his tongue. Robert De Niro tried, but might not refrain from quoting this Sunday, May 21, the name of Donald Trump. He compared the former American president to the Machiavellian character he plays in the film Killers of the Flower Moonduring a press conference.
In this feature film by Martin Scorsese, presented Saturday at Cannes, the 79-year-old actor plays William Hale, nicknamed « King »a businessman greedy for black gold who weaves a terrible plot to rob a Native American community of Oklahoma, the Osage, of their oil revenues in the 1920s. A scenario inspired by real events, as we tell you ‘let’s explain in the review which you can find here.
“I will not pronounce his name”
To do this, he relies on the naive Ernest Burkahrt (Leonardo DiCaprio), embroiled in the conspiracy. “I don’t understand much regarding him, why he betrays them…”explained the iconic Scorsese actor, who built a relationship of trust with the Osages before orchestrating dozens of murders.
“But we understood that much better following the death of George Floyd, with this systematic racism, and that’s what it’s regarding here”added De Niro, referring to the death in 2020 in Minneapolis of this African-American, who died of asphyxiation under the knee of a police officer.
“It’s the banality of evil, the thing we have to be careful of. We all know who I’m going to talk regarding, I won’t say his name.”promised once more the unforgettable interpreter of Taxi Driver.
Opposing the US President
But a few minutes later, De Niro, notorious opponent of the former American president, might not hold back: “It’s like with Trump, I had to say. There are people who think he can do a good job. Imagine how crazy that is”he launched.
Deaf violence, settling of scores and betrayals: Killers of the Flower Moonpresented as a world premiere on the Croisette, transposes the world of Martin Scorsese’s greatest films to the dusty lands of this Indian tribe at the beginning of the 20th century.
With its lavish production, up to the pharaonic budget of 200 million euros, and its polished images, this fresco takes its time (3 h 26) to highlight, murder following murder, the colonial and racist dynamics that have persisted in the States. United in the 20th century.
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