A ferocious critique of capitalism and social inequality with Triangle of Sadness by the Swedish Ruben Ostlund (he won the Palme d'Or with The Square in 2017) and a story of racism between the poor and paternity suffered with RMN by Romanian Cristian Mungiu (also Palma gold in 2007 with 4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days).
Then again the return of the creator of Mad Max, George Miller with Three Thousand Years of Longing out of competition with a new fantastic fairy tale, starring Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba.
It is the fifth day of the Cannes festival which also saw the world premiere of Marcel !, the directorial debut of the actress Jasmine Trinca who 20 years ago made her debut, little more than a teenager, with The Room of the son of Nanni Moretti, who won the Palme d'Or.
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On the Montée des Marches, Carla Bruni, the director Costa Gavras, the influencer Hofit Golan were seen among others, while there is no trace of Sharon Stone, whose appearance is also hypothesized at the moment.
There was also Ethan Hawke who presented in Cannes Classics the world premiere of his work as director and producer, The Last Movie Star, a tribute to that formidable Hollywood couple who were Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward.
Tilda Swinton, accompanying George Miller's film "Three Thousand Years of Longing", said that "cinema needs stories more than ever", meaning them original, reckless, imaginative.
"The dangerous thing about stories is when you only have one," she told the press conference.
"It is so clear now, particularly in the last few months, that when people only hear one story, things fall apart quickly," she said in a reference to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
"Keeping your ears and heart open is really important," she concluded.
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There is no war but certainly the failures of capitalism told as a horror film in Triangle of Sadness with which the Swedish director of The Square, Ruben Ostlund, impressed today in competition, giving a first shock.
In three chapters, the film tells of Carl (Harris Dickinson, the English actor of The King's Man), a model rejected at an ad audition because he doesn't move slouching as is fashionable now, and of Yaya (Charlbi Dean Kriek), model and influencer.
With them Ostlund, with a crude, dry, satirical style that unites him with his Greek contemporary Yorgos Lanthimos, goes to the underworld of modern capitalism between divisions of very ferocious classes, Russian magnates with an official wife and lover in tow, arms dealers.
It will be a struggle for survival, but it is the god of money who governs it more than humanity.
The class struggle between the poor, racism and globalization are the themes of Mungiu in RMN, a film co-produced by the Dardenne brothers and which will arrive in theaters with Bim.
The protagonist Matthias (Marin Grigore) leaves his work as a worker in Germany to return to a remote village in Romania for Christmas, to spend days with his son Rudi, who has stopped talking due to a mysterious shock and lives with his mother Ana (Macrina Barladeanu).
And he also hopes to get back with his ex Csilla (Judith State).
These personal dynamics intersect with the problems of the village refusing Sri Lankan workers hired in the village's industrial bakery.
The ethnic balance is broken.
"It has a special effect on me to be here today, to look at everything I have done, to think about how much luck and happiness": it is a day of special emotion for Jasmine Trinca, the actress who is on the jury chaired by Vincent Lindon who will award the Palm of gold on May 28, accompanies his directorial debut with Marcel !, today in a special screening.
The film, a Cinemaundici and Totem Atelier production with Rai Cinema in cinemas with Vision from 1 June, tells the relationship "of love and cruelty" between a mother and a daughter, all seen through the eyes of the little girl (Maayane Conti) who, an orphan of her father, she is raised by her paternal grandparents (grandmother is Giovanna Ralli, grandfather Umberto Orsini) in the building next to the one where her mother (Alba Rohrawcher) lives, a
street artist who proposes a number with the dog Marcel who seems to love more than his daughter.
At the origin there is a process of elaboration of the experience of Jasmine Trinca, "a fable that re-elaborates my past, as a stage in a path of treatment that began a long time ago but which certainly this film gives a good blow".
We are far from the "protective mother" stereotype.
I had a mother much freer than I am now, avant-garde, pioneer, not a mother devoted to children, a mother inhabited by art and pain, a superheroine seems to me today, struggling to live ". With the protagonist Alba Rohrwacher Giovanna Ralli, 87, also on the red carpet, returning to the cinema after 8 years.
