Surrounded by an affectionate and close guard, the actress walks slowly, slips a word into Benoît Magimel's ear, holds the hand of director Emmanuelle Bercot.
She climbs the steps of the Palais des Festivals.
A heavy gold chain clashes with her black velvet dress.
With Cécile de France, Magimel and doctor Gabriel Sara, Catherine Deneuve came to present
In her lifetime
, whose filming was disrupted in 2019 by her cardiovascular accident.
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Silence, excitement, thunderous applause.
Mademoiselle Deneuve is received at the Grand Théâtre de Lumière like a queen.
The last visit to Cannes of the actress dates back to 2016, for a public kiss granted to the master of ceremonies Laurent Lafitte.
Relief, in the ranks, to see that the actress is doing well.
One of Deneuve's rings rolls at the foot of the armchairs.
Thierry Frémeaux, joker, picks it up and pretends not to return it to its elegant owner.
The triumph never ends.
“
Come on, maybe we'll sit down,
” she says.
A whole palliative hay
Deneuve confided in a press conference: “
I don't think I've ever been moved like that in Cannes.
""
I am not naive, I knew that the evening would be above all that of Catherine, that people expected more than the film
", explains Emmanuelle Bercot to France Info.
Benoît Magimel, with a piercing gaze and a pensive forehead, plays
a cancerous theater teacher
in
De son vivant
.
His mother, played by Deneuve, does not help him.
Illness overwhelms him.
We begin to wipe away a few tears.
And to stifle a few laughs in front of the dialogues not always brilliant.
The character never stops dying.
Overdose of pathos.
Catherine Deneuve experienced the shoot in a very personal way.
John MACDOUGALL / AFP
Faced with the press, Benoît Magimel affirms that his outlook on death has changed after this film: "
At the age that I am
(47 years old, Editor's note)
, something begins to germinate in me on this subject
".
Cécile de France says she too has won "
humanely
".
Catherine Deneuve experienced this shoot in a very personal way.
"
This terrible thing happened ... The film took on a different dimension and a different force
," she explains, elegantly removing her fuchsia pink mask and being careful not to mention her accident more precisely.
Then, annoyed, the actress slams (a little unfairly) Guillemette Odicino, our colleague from
Télérama
, who animated the conference, reproaching him for not allowing the journalists in the room to speak.
Cycling shorts
Even without the evenings limited by the virus, Cannes nights are more fun than the days.
The highly anticipated
Supreme
by Audrey Estrougo was broadcast in the midnight session on Saturday.
On the red carpet, the “
crew
” led by Théo Christine, in the skin of the Jaguar, and Sandor Funtek in that of Kool Shen, was burning with excitement.
It looked like they had won the Euro.
JoeyStarr, in the role of the coach, strutted alongside them.
According to
Nice-Matin
, the ex-singer, also on the poster of the Cannes film
This music does not play for anyone
, would have insulted the photographers.
In the room, a valiant admirer launched the rallying cry of the hip-hop cry: "
Fuck your mother!"
"
The Festival is turning green with the new selection “Cinema for the climate”, a press conference of which was held this Sunday. Louis Garrel presents
La Croisade
, a fable in which children
“take power to protect the planet” -
scenario co-written by Jean-Claude Carrière. The other films selected are documentaries, including
Animal
by Cyril Dion, director of
Demain
in 2015.
“A few films will not be enough to change the situation, we need hundreds of others to tackle these issues each year and propose new ideas. other representations of the future ”
, can we read in a column published on the occasion by the same Cyril Dion and signed by Aïssa Maïga, Louis Garrel or Marion Cotillard.
The actress
Annette
had also created astonishment at the start of the festival by putting on cycling shorts on the red carpet.
Maybe it was actually out of commitment to soft mobility?
Cannes Cancans
Sean Penn at a press conference.
John MACDOUGALL / AFP
Penn vs. Trump
Sean Penn, who presents his film
Flag Day
in Cannes
, heavily criticized Donald Trump at a press conference for his management of Covid-19.
“It looked like someone, with his submachine gun, was shooting at the most vulnerable communities from a turret installed in the White House,”
the actor said.
Two stars on the jersey?
Italian director Nani Moretti presents
Tre Piani
, his fifteenth feature film in the official selection.
He is running for a second Palme d'Or, after that received in 2001 For
La Chambre du fils.
The gala screening will take place at the same time as the Euro final, which pits his country against England.
Croisette speed
David vs. Goliath
He signs with Christophe Tardieu the essay * that they co-wrote in the only bookstore in the city that remained open during the first confinement, Autour du livre. For David Lisnard,
“culture will save us”
. The mayor of Cannes scraps to defend it against oblivion, erasure, the reign of anything. He does it without pretension, without empty phrases; that is what we can see that he is not on the left. Discreet, he does not monopolize the red carpet and does not fear to ironize on
"those who believe themselves transgressive when they are only conformists"
; we will not mention names. Aware of the need for the festival to reconcile paradoxes, he
slams
indigenism,
"wokism", "racialism"
; all these shackles of which he is one of the few to underline the threat they pose to our civilization. He remembers his escapades when he infiltrated, as a kid, the alleys of the festival. He tells how he slipped between Roger Moore, Jean-Claude Brialy and Jacqueline Bisset; it makes you want to go to the movies. He grew up with Stanley Kubrick, The
Godfather
episodes
, spaghetti westerns.
Among recent works, he considers
Tree of Life
, by Terence Malik, or
Leto
, by Kirill Serebrennikov, for masterpieces. We could award him the palm for good taste. If he had been president of the jury at the time, he would have defended
Les Tontons flingueurs
or
A monkey in winter.
.
There is a joyful energy in him that is not fictional.
*
Culture will save us
, by David Lisnard and Christophe Tardieu, Éditions de l'Observatoire.
