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In Cannes the horror of Auschwitz, elderly Ford and nun Cate

2023-05-19T18:17:56.300Z

Highlights: Union protests at Carlton and false alarms on the fourth day of the festival. The film of the day is The Zone of Interest by Jonathan Glazer. Harrison Ford has recovered his age, despite how much younger he seems to be. Cate Blanchett will be in the front row for the long-awaited premiere of Killers of the Flower Moon by Martin Scorsese in May/December with Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore. The Australian actress, two Oscars won and a third touched this year with Tar, came to present in the Un Certain Regard competition.


Union protests at Carlton and false alarms on the fourth day of the festival. The film of the day is The Zone of Interest by Jonathan Glazer (ANSA)


A punch in the stomach difficult to forget and already projected for the Palmares of May 27, The Zone of Interest by Jonathan Glazer, the splendid 80-year-old Harrison Ford, the impetuous combative Sean Penn and the bizarre nun Cate Blanchett on the fourth day of the Cannes Film Festival. On the news front, there are two false alarms: one in the night forced the guests of the Martinez hotel to descend the luxurious stairs while sounding the alarm that suggested "without panic" to leave the structure and another around 13.30 near the Palais du Festival where a suspicious package was found in front of the Tourist Office, until it was understood that it had been forgotten by a tourist. And outside the Carlton hotel, one of the symbols of the Croisette, the announced rally of the CGT trade union confederation was held to protest against the pension reform.

Trade union issues are a sub-theme of Cannes 2023: solidarity and sharing of struggle were expressed today by Indiana Jones and the Quadrant of Destiny director James Mangold, Lucasfilm producer Kathleen Kennedy and Sean Penn. "The industry makes fun of screenwriters and actors, I fully support them. The use of artificial intelligence is something very important, to be evaluated, and the producers' association should be called the bankers' association instead. Too many of them are not working as they should. Artificial intelligence in cinema is a human obscenity," Penn said during the press conference for Black Flies, directed by French director Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire, a heartbreaking and painful drama about New York paramedics.

The film of the day is The Zone of Interest by Jonathan Glazer, one of three past in competition today, the others are Four Daughters by Kaouther Ben Hania, about an all-female Tunisian family, and About Dry Grasses by Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan which tells a story starring a teacher in Anatolia, accused together with a colleague of harassment by some students. There is the construction of the Auschwitz concentration camp, the improvements for which to seek funding to go ahead with the circular crematorium project and thus optimize the extermination of the Jews. And there is the life of the director of the camp, a Nazi who is making a career, a good family man with many children and his wife, the queen of Auschwitz, passionate about gardening. This normal life, the usual banality of evil never too many times told, has a background noise that hammers, a soundtrack of horrors. But if it weren't for some details, such as the Nazi boots to wash maniacally on the way home, whose water is red with blood, everything flows as if nothing had happened.

Harrison Ford in Cannes, after the ovation and the Palme d'Or of honor delivered surprisingly during the premiere of Indiana Jones and the Quadrant of Destiny, met the press, an hour of veneration in front of such a charismatic actor. 80 years old, again in the role of the archaeologist adventurer to the fifth franchise of the saga, increasingly a sort of James Bond, Harrison Ford has recovered his age, despite how much younger he seems to be. "It was very nice to be young, now I could be dead, but I'm just old!" Indy's character retires, "It seems obvious to me. I need to sit and rest a bit. I love the job, I love this character and I love what he brought into my life, but age matters," he continued. But Ford does not think about retirement given his recent commitments with TV series, the drama 1923 and the comedy Shrinking.

From the orchestra stage to the convent in the middle of the remote fields of Australia: Cate Blanchett at the test of the nun's habit in The New Boy that the Australian actress, two Oscars won and a third touched this year with Tar, came to present in the Un Certain Regard competition. A story of magic, spirituality, aboriginal culture in contrast with the Catholic religion in an orphanage that welcomes lost children and in which Ashwan arrives a wild aboriginal capable of loving the crucifix. Blanchett is a Cannes regular: she will be in the front row for the long-awaited premiere of Killers of the Flower Moon by Martin Scorsese (her director of the Aviator) and in May/December with Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore in which she will meet Todd Haynes who directed her in the memorable Carol.


Source: ansa

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