2023-05-27 06:00:00
For the eleventh day of the Cannes Film Festival, discover the most unmissable moments of this last day of competition, behind the scenes and anecdotes.
On the eve of the awarding of the Palme d’Or, this Friday, May 25 marked the last day of the official competition. In particular, you might discover Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimère and Ken Loach’s The Old Oak and make wonderful encounters. Here’s what you shouldn’t miss:
Un Certain Regard: the winners
As is customary, Un Certain Regard awarded its prizes the day before the Palme d’or was awarded. Moment suspended from this ceremony, the president of the jury, John C. Reilly, regaled the audience with a more than convincing a cappella while waiting for the winner of the Un Certain Regard prize to reach the palace. And this latecomer was none other than Molly Manning Walker, director of the sulphurous How to Have Sex. As for the jury prize, it goes to Les Meutes, a first Moroccan film by Kamal Lazraq. Augure (La Nouvelle Voix prize), La Fleur de Buriti (L’Ensemble prize), Goodbye Julia (Freedom prize) and The Mother of All Lies (Direction prize to Asmae El Moudir) complete the track record.
More than a biopic, a film to continue the fight?
“The goal is to open people’s blinders to the suffering of others. And above all to never get used to the suffering of others.” Benjamin Lavernhe was in Cannes at the very start of the Festival to accompany Jeanne du Barry. He returned there for this penultimate day of the fortnight with L’Abbé Pierre, a life of combat, an evocation at the level of a man of the life and struggles of the one who remained for a very long time. “the favorite man of the French”. A crossing of the century, which humanizes this mythical figure, and which also shares it, by finally bringing to light Lucie Coutaz (Emmanuelle Bercot), a woman in the shadows who accompanied her for forty years in her commitment once morest poverty.
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“Such an intimate portrait of this gentleman who is absolutely extraordinary is a way, I think, of continuing the fight. We hope that it will also make him known to new generations and perpetuate his memory and obviously his action. He had a hard time accepting that, that we make films regarding him. I know that when Winter 54 came out, he said ‘I don’t want a film made regarding me, but regarding my action.’ I think the film pays homage to his struggle.”
The “absolutely crazy” Cannes memory of Wim Wenders
This Friday, we had the privilege of meeting the great Wim Wenders, Palme d’or for Paris, Texas, to talk regarding his beautiful Perfect Days, presented in Competition. But with a Cannes regular of this standing at the microphone, awarded for the first time in 1976, impossible not to ask him in the preamble to evoke a strong memory drawn from his visits to the Croisette. Or more precisely, a crazy memory! “Yes, I’m having an absolutely crazy time”he lets go without thinking, with a smile on his face and a greedy eye.
“It was the year when I presented “So far, so close”, in 1993. Louis Malle was president of the jury. I had been on the jury three years before, and I know that, as a member of the jury, we try not to have any contact with the directors. So, I walk on the Croisette, the film has already been presented, and there is the passing of the jury cars in the street. The first car, c is that of Louis Malle, who is therefore the president. He sees me, he makes the car stop and he gets out. And there, he does what one does not do when one is president of the jury: he kisses me and said to me “Look quickly, there are photographers! Take your wallet and give me some money! (he bursts out laughing) I gave him 100 bullets, he took the money, being sure that the photographers had captured the scene, then he gave them back to me and went back to his car. He wanted to make it look like I was paying him a bribe. We laughed like everything and the other cars passed. It was so amazing, Louis had an incredible sense of humor.”
He knows everything regarding the northern districts!
Five years following presenting his first feature film, Shéhérazade, on the Croisette, Jean-Bernard Marlin returns to Cannes with Salem. This new opus, still located in the popular districts of Marseille, marks a stage in his career. This time he tints his raw realism with flashes of fantasy. The gentleman put the (temporary) final touch to his film just a few days before the start of the Festival. And it’s a treat to talk with him regarding the design of Salem, his love of non-professional actors and the light that constantly floods the city of Marseille.
The Best Dog of the Festival
As every year, a Canine Palm was awarded to reward the best dog seen in a film in the selection. For this 76th edition, the border collie Messi was hailed with the highest distinction for his role as Snoop in Anatomy of a Fall by Justine Triet.
The Grand Jury Prize was awarded to Chaplin, from Aki Kaurismäki’s film Les Feuilles Mortes, with a special distinction to Sultan, a Staffordshire Bull Terrier who appeared in Vincent Must Die by Stephan Castang. Ken Loach’s The Old Oak meanwhile received a special mention for Marra, the main character’s canine best friend.
Et en parlante by Ken Loach…
It’s a double webbed that we find on the Croisette… Ken Loach presents this year The Old Oak, which might be his last film. And if that were the case, we would be orphans of this militant and generous cinema that only Loach knows how to produce. And it is this humanity that we find in the most beautiful scenes of The Old Oaklike this sequence of a solidarity banquet where children flock to stuff themselves with fish & chips and pizza.
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A sacred Japanese film à la Queer Palm
The Queer Palm 2023 was awarded to Monster by Hirokazu Kore-eda, a crime drama in competition, which presents the story of the young Minato, whose behavior is increasingly worrying. His mother, who has been raising him alone since the death of her husband, decides to confront the educational team at her son’s school. Everything seems to point to Minato’s teacher as responsible for the problems encountered by the young boy. But as the story unfolds through the eyes of mother, teacher, and child, the truth turns out to be far more complex and nuanced than anyone had originally anticipated…
The Queer Palm 2023 for short films was awarded to Nans Laborde-Jourdaà for Bolero, also awarded at Critics’ Week.
We talked to Jane Fonda!
At 86, Jane Fonda is more energetic, bright, engaged and caring than ever. It was in the heart of the Buñuel room at the Palais des Festivals that she gave precious time to her fans, eager to learn more and more regarding her career, to simply talk to her and ask her for all kinds of advice. We talked regarding those films that she won’t do anymore if they don’t represent a challenge! She told us intimate anecdotes regarding Robert Redford whom she was madly in love with in secret in the first three films she shot with him but who according to her did not like kissing him (on the fourth Our souls at night) she had evolved and only saw his repeated delays!), unlike Alain Delon (in Les Félins) who seemed to appreciate it!
She gave us her life secrets: 13 hours of sleep (!), walking, healthy eating, and above all curiosity! Finally, she told us regarding the birth of her feminism and especially her activism in favor of the climate, her fights in general because she likes to insist, everything is linked. “There would be no climate problems if there were no patriarchy or racism. These are hierarchical systems. Everything is connected in the commitment. You have to solve all the problems at the same time”. A fitting vision matched by a hopeful message that packed the room, creating a rare bubble of intimacy.
Elementary my dear… Adele!
Play in a Pixar. An absolute dream for Adèle Exarchopoulos whom we met before the presentation of the film Elementary at the closing of the Cannes Film Festival this Saturday. In the 27th feature film from the studio, alongside the too “flowing” Vincent Lacoste, she embodies the flamboyant Flam Lumen to whom she brings her fiery temperament.
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It is a dream, a realization! That’s what I’ve been asking my agent for years: ‘Please put me in a Pixar cast, please!’ He told me ‘Be patient, it will come’. It was my dream to have it. And when they called me, they told me it was good, it was an immense joy. For example, this morning the trailer came out with our voices: I sent it to everyone, something I never do! Did you say we fire?
Rods on the finish line
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One day before the arrival of this 76 edition of the Cannes Film Festival, the Gran Turismo team invited themselves to the Croisette for a photocall all in confetti and champagne. Orlando Bloom, Archie Madekwe, Geri Horner and director Neill Blomkamp thus made a short detour to the Carlton pontoon to immortalize the moment, and officially launch the promotion of the adaptation of the famous video game (at least of an astonishing story true linked to the video game license), expected on August 9, 2023 in theaters.
And see you tomorrow evening for the winners and our debrief podcast!
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