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Cannes 2020: the “special edition” of the 2020 Festival shows a selection full of vitality

2020-10-29T16:14:54.010Z


The special edition of the Cannes Film Festival 2020, which took place on the Croisette from October 27 to 29, just before the general reconfinement, will have made it possible to show a narrow selection of films, including "Le Triomphe" by Emmanuel Courcol or Multi-crowned “Beginning” at the San Sebastian Festival.


The special edition of the Cannes Film Festival 2020, which took place from October 27 to 29 on the Croisette, was like a sort of last carefree setting in the heart of an ocean of anguish linked to the general reconfinement.

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Under the Cannes sun, the program of films to be seen in the legendary Lumière room of the Palais des Festivals has unfolded its finery.

First of all, it is advisable to mention the film proposed during the opening night.

Le Triomphe

, by Emmanuel Courcol, with Kad Merad, aroused enthusiasm and triggered a surge of applause from the thousand spectators present in the large Lumière room of the Palais des Festivals.

This can normally hold up to 2,200 people.

The plot of the film

Le Triomphe is

inspired by a true story.

A failed actor is offered at a moment's notice by his former friend, who has become a theater director, the possibility of giving theater lessons in prison.

Against all odds, Étienne established contact.

The detainees are interested, delighted that they are finally being considered as excluded to talk to them as actors.

The hero tries a crazy gamble: put on an ambitious play,

Waiting for Godot

, by Samuel Beckett.

The theater of waiting and the absurd to save the prisoners from their own existence.

After many adventures, all this will lead the troupe to Paris, to the Théâtre de l'Odéon ...

Throbbing stalking

This French general public film, intelligent, generous, in the lineage of the comedies of Toledano and Nakache, well written and impeccably played by an inhabited Kad Merad, will have rallied all the votes.

The film crew, present after the screening, couldn't get over seeing the spectators clapping wildly.

But programming Cannes also gives pride to foreign films more radical, as

Beginning

(

In the beginning

), a first film of a young Georgian filmmaker Dea Kulumbegashvili.

Impressive in formal mastery, with simple still shots, like tableaux vivants,

Beginning

(four times crowned by the San Sebastian Festival last September) offers a sharp vision of a petrified society, through Yana's drama, the wife of the leader of a community of Jehovah's Witnesses attacked by a group of extremists.

The emergence of violence is all the more impressive as it is rare.

This moving story, filmed as a haunting hunt between a hypnotized prey and its overconfident predator, marks the spirits.

Promoting the art of short films

Another foreign film chosen from the 2020 official selection is the Japanese film

True Mothers

, by Naomi Kawase, which tells the story of Satoko and her husband Kiyokazu.

This young couple failing to have a child chooses to adopt one.

Six years later, they receive a call from a woman announcing that she is the baby boy's biological mother.

She is trying to extort money from them ... Finally, the closing session of the festival allowed the Cannes public to discover Bruno Podalydès' new film (and played by his brother Denis),

Les Deux Alfred

: the story of a unemployed person having to hide the existence of his child to work in a successful start-up.

The programming of this special edition will also have made it possible to promote the art of short films, often relegated to the background during the classic edition.

Served in the setting of the Lumière room, some nuggets shone such as

I Am Afraid to Forget Your Face

, by the Egyptian Sameh Alaa, or

David

, by the American Zachary Woods (seen in the American version of the series

The Office

), with Will Ferrel, who had a powerful effect on the audience in the room.

Finally, the event will have highlighted the formidable research work carried out by the Cinéfondation among the filmmakers of tomorrow.

Of the four programs presented, many student films are worth a look, and especially the very sensitive end of studies film Catdog by Indian Ashmita Guha Neogi, or the intriguing Taipei Suicide Story by Keff.

The only downside is what could have happened in the minds of the directors of La Fémis by choosing Carcasse by Timothée Maubrey, a sort of chemically pure precipitate of all the clichés attached to French auteur cinema ...

Source: lefigaro

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