The last crack of the whip is on the red carpet of the Cannes Film Festival. The legendary archaeologist Indiana Jones retires in his last adrenaline adventure not without having ignited the Croisette. Premiere tonight at Cannes 76 for Indiana Jones and the Quadrant of Destiny, the latest film in the Lucasfilm saga, among the most popular in American cinema. Harrison Ford, 80 years old brought defying age climbs the steps of the Montee des Marches with his wife Calista Flockhart, while fans of the franchise after waiting for hours, some decorated with the cult hat, go into delirium.
Cannes, it's the day of Harrison Ford and his 'Indiana Jones'
Spectacular red carpet with indigenous representatives of the Amazon forest, fighting to defend that land from destruction, led by the great old environmentalist Raoni, 93, head of the Brazilian Kayapo. And then again the Indian actress and model Aishwarya Rai with a sculpture dress that wrapped her in silver, the Chinese Gong Li with Jean Michel Jarre, the model Karlie Kloss with the belly in evidence, the emerging star French Nadia Tereszkiewicz.
With Ford rise Antonio Banderas, Mads Mikkelsen, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and the other actors of the cast and director James Mangold (Le Mans 66) who took the place of Steven Spielberg remained among the producers.
For Ford's fifth time as an adventurous archaeologist, due to advanced age, the retouching was necessary: he returns young, at least for a while, in the first part of the film, and this for the special effects of de-aging. After a prologue in 1944 (where Harrison is rejuvenated) Indy finds himself in 1969. Settled with Marion, he is now close to retirement and feels overtaken by a world that no longer understands how, for example, the fact that ex-Nazi scientists like Voller (Mads Mikkelsen) collaborate with NASA. At the last minute, however, he is involved by his goddaughter Helena (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) in a new adventure around the world, to intercept an object that Voller is also looking for. An artifact capable of changing the world 'for the better'. After tonight's premiere (the film will be released in Italy from June 28), tomorrow the presentation to the press.
On the day dominated by Indiana Jones, two films passed in competition Black Flies by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire and Jeunesse (Le Printemps) by Wang Bing. The first tells the violence of New York from the point of view of ambulance paramedics, a tough job, by heroes trying to save lost people of all kinds. Fifteen minutes of screaming sirens, ambulance rides and people who are sick: beaten women, victims of shootings, miscarriages ended badly and people overdosing on crack. This is how we enter the adrenaline-filled lives of the two paramedic protagonists, the young Ollie Cross (Tye Sheridan) and Gene Rutkovsky (Sean Penn), a veteran of the trade. Set on the streets of New York during the so-called crack epidemic, the story is based on Shannon Burke's autobiographical novel.
Jeunesse by Wang Bing is a river documentary that tells like a Caravaggesque fresco the slave workers of the textile industry in Zhili, the Chinese capital of fashion. In over three hours the great Chinese director lets us enter the miserable lives of these young workers, many minors, who are paid less than one euro for each garment they sew, working bent over sewing machines in dirty, dark and unsafe workshops. They spend their lives in there and when they return home they lock themselves in beehive dwellings, furnished without furniture. Yet youth wins, we see them smiling, playing, having fun, falling in love, fighting, teaming up, they are all internal migrants (and also foreigners), who have left distant rural villages to look for work in the city. They are young and they do not lack hope for a better future.