Between cinema and
Madame Figaro
, it's an endless love-story, in one take.
"A fusional love story and a weekly passion", as recalled this Thursday evening Anne-Florence Schmitt, the editorial director of "feminine cinema", in the preamble to an exceptional Cinema Dinner.
The pre-Cannes Festival event is now well established, in partnership with Chopard, including Caroline Scheufele, the soul of the high jewelry house, who has always been associated with the world of the arts.
Each year, Chopard thus chisels the precious Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
As luck would have it, the press conference for the next festival (from May 16 to 27), raising the curtain on the official selection, took place the same morning.
The cinema dinner
In images, in pictures
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Noémie, Anaïs, Léa and the others
At the Gigi Paris, the conversations were already buzzing with big names who are going to travel the Croisette.
The cozy restaurant, located on avenue Montaigne, and located above the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, with an Italian Riviera atmosphere, welcomed the VIP guests of this unique evening bringing together all of French cinema.
Actors, producers, directors, agents admired from the terrace the Eiffel Tower which stood out against the anthracite gray sky of this end of the day.
Léa Drucker (whose film
Last Summer
by Catherine Breillat is going to Cannes) was chatting with Anaïs Demoustier.
Noémie Merlant, freshly awarded the César for best actress in a supporting role, was delighted: she is going to shoot her second film as a director.
Producer Melita Toscan du Plantier flitted around Marina Foïs and her band: the irresistible Pio Marmaï, Laurent Lafitte or Rebecca Zlotowski.
Rebecca Zlotowski.
Nikita Shubnyi/Say Who
The tables, each bearing the name of a movie heroine (
Lolita, Annette, Gilda, Tess
or
Pandora
) filled up happily.
Tahar Rahim reunited with Diane Kruger, who crossed paths at the last Marrakech Festival, François Ozon savored the success of his film
Mon crime
with his two actresses, Rebecca Marder and Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Sandrine Kiberlain was in tandem with Alex Lutz.
François Ozon surrounded by his two actresses from
Mon crime
: Rebecca Marder and Nadia Tereszkiewicz.
Nikita Shubnyi/Say Who
A group of gospell sang R&B hits between the tables during dessert, enough to end the tasty pavlovas joyfully: everyone was
happy
, as in Pharrell Williams' hit, which made the guests still seated move.
Around 1 a.m., the Eiffel Tower had fallen asleep, the lights of the city capsized, but the hard core of night owls, Gilles Lellouche, Camille Cottin, Augustin Trapenard, Doria Tillier or Marina Foïs, remade the world around a Angelus castle glass.
In the peaceful night, the cinema season was launched.
