2024-04-11 13:02:11
Film What’s on at Cannes
“Mad Max”, Greta Gerwig and transsexual Palestinians
Status: 12.04.2024 | Reading time: 3 minutes
Natural glamour: The Croisette in Cannes
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The program of the 77th Cannes Film Festival is like a good vintage, classic and balanced. The new “Mad Max”, an epic western by Kevin Costner and Francis Ford Coppola’s life project, is celebrating its world premiere. The old-school masculinity is garnished with a lot of global south.
220,000 viewers, 14,000 accredited filmmakers, 3.2 million who watched the final event live last year – the German Cannes President Iris Knobloch, who has been in office for two years, boasted of such records at the beginning of the press conference at which this year’s program was announced was presented at the world’s most important film festivals. The 77th edition of Cannes should not be left behind. After Knobloch’s greeting address to the new jury chairwoman Greta Gerwig, the “Barbie” director, who builds a bridge from indie author ambition to blockbusters and who, in the best Cannes tradition, “has a deep love for film and its history “It was up to artistic director Thierry Frémaux to read out the candidates.
He and his team viewed 2,000 films to select almost two dozen for the Palme d’Or competition. These include many of the usual suspects, regular guests on the Croisette: Andrea Arnold with a coming-of-age story of a British girl, like the one the director made famous with “Fish Tank”. The title: “Bird”. First of all, the cool American Paul Schrader, who has been making films about lonely men and their demons for decades, this time “Oh Canada” with an ironically reflecting age Richard Gere alongside Uma Thurman. Body horror specialist David Cronenberg speaks to dead people in “The Shrouds.”
Dances with Wolves: Kevin Costner’s “Horizon: An American Saga” will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival
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The French Coralie Fargeat poaches in similar territory with “The Substance”. In the cast: Demi Moore and the currently popular Margaret Qualley. Fargeat’s compatriot Jacques Audiard also casts his contribution “Emilia Perez” in a Hollywood-esque manner, namely with Selena Gomez. The Russian Kirill Serebrennikov, a dancer on the tightrope of censorship, has filmed the life of the crazy Russian Eduard Limonov based on the French book by Emmanuel Carrère. And “Grande Belezza” director Paolo Sorrentino once again pays tribute to his hometown of Naples in “Parthenope” – with the story of a young girl who doesn’t just want to shine through her beauty. After the sensational “Poor Things”, the Greek Yorgos Lanthimos has finished a new film, again with Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe.
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There are also Chinese (Jia Zhang-Ke), Indians, Portuguese, Brazilians, Iranians in the selection. You won’t find any Germans. Francis Ford Coppola’s life project “Megalopolis” with Dustin Hoffman and Adam Driver, which the legendary director sold his wine-growing areas in the Sonoma Valley to finance, is raising great expectations. Analogous to wine, one could speak of this “Sélection officielle” as a classic vintage. Many old acquaintances, greats of the popular author’s film, plus a palm of honor for “Star Wars” inventor George Lucas. The competition is rounded off by exciting world premieres, such as the new “Mad Max: Furiosa” by George Miller or Kevin Costner’s three-hour western “Horizon”.
But you don’t have to worry about the old men making it up among themselves, surrounded by smoking engines or covered wagons. There are also films about transsexual Palestinians who move to Tel Aviv because they find it difficult to live out their identity in the Gaza Strip, and a mood picture of a country at war by the Ukrainian Sergei Loznitsa. More from mid-May.
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