On May 28, while the Croisette was tidying up its red carpet, our colleague Jean-Christophe Buisson concluded the festival with a very fitting editorial entitled "Cannes 2022 haunted by the ghost of 1986", listing the references to that year, from the release of the first
Top Gun
to a number of scenarios in vintage color anchored exactly thirty-six years back.
But, what the journalist may not have known yet, is that the day before had been released, on Netflix, season 4 of
Stranger Things
, that the series was going to break the platform's viewing time record from the first weekend (286.79 million hours viewed worldwide), and that the plot took place in... 1986 (as indicated , on many occasions, the graphic dressing of the first episodes).
Almost immediately after,
Running Up that Hill,
by the British Kate Bush, found itself at the top of the iTunes and Spotify world rankings.
Released in 1985, the hit had become a popular success a few months later…
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