A hat sent by an English milliner?
A pair of shoes ?
A scenario to learn?
We will not know what was contained in the parcel bomb that sowed concern around the Debussy room of the Palais des Festivals.
It was destroyed Thursday around 3 p.m. by demining teams.
The surrounding police reacted at full speed, snatching spectators from their projection, tourists from their vanilla-chocolate ice cream.
It was a false alarm.
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We learn in the notebook of
Figaro
, Renée Dorléac, the mother of Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac, died on July 11 at the age of 109 years.
The day before, her 77-year-old daughter was climbing the steps to present Emmanuelle Bercot's film
In her lifetime
.
Will Pierre Lescure and Thierry Frémeaux pay homage to the one who was thirty years an actress at the Odeon and dubbed Olivia de Havilland as Judy Garland?
In Cannes, we know how to cultivate the memory of cinema.
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The proof ? The two festival bosses have just signed an agreement with the city to establish an International Museum of Cinema and the Cannes Film Festival. The CNC, the Cinémathèque française and the INA are part of the project. On the program, exhibitions on the history of the seventh art, "
a space devoted to the festival
", a "film
set dedicated to children
" and a behind-the-scenes studio. The cost ? 150 to 200 million euros. The place ? Presumably an old sports hall located in La Bocca. The date ? 2025.
A first prize list was unveiled on Wednesday evening: that of Critics' Week.
The grand prize crowns
Feathers
by Omar El Zohairy.
First Egyptian film, in which a mother takes on the role of head of the family to replace her husband who has been turned into a hen.
The SACD prize went to Elie Grappe for
Olga
, a gymnast shared between Switzerland, where she trains at a high level, and Ukraine where her mother lives in danger.
The very sporty heroine Nastya Budiashkina had made an impressive big gap on the red carpet to the delight of the photographers.
The Kechiche trauma
Critics have only one word in their mouths: cunnilingus. The Cannes Film Festival, they end up thinking, has made it a specialty. We discovered some from the opening night - with
Annette
- then in
Lamb
(Un certain regard),
The Souvenir Part II
(official competition),
Olympiads
and
Benedetta
, where the Sapphic love scenes are fiercely filmed by Paul Verhoeven. “
And again, you haven't seen Kechiche's cunnilingus last year
,” says a regular. More than two years have passed and the memory of Mektoub my love: Intermezzo (4 hours of film, 13 minutes of gamahuchage) has not yet dissipated.
In
Red Rocket
(in competition), a former pornstar played by Simon Rex returns to her hometown for a fresh start. The unknown Simon Rex brings him his scouring energy. In a press conference on Thursday, his partner on the screen Bree Elrod confides having seen "a
lot of porn
" to slip into the character. Suzanna Son says she only "
drew on her past
". “
I was a very curious 17-year-old girl
,” she says, without giving further details. The antihero Simon Rex, revelation of this film according to Étienne Sorin, refused to say if he had used a prosthesis to be up to his job: “
I leave the mystery.
»History of being neither modest nor disappointing.
Benzeback
Olympiads
by Jacques Audiard, for which it was the gala ceremony, also shows, but in black and white, bodies mingling. The director wanted to tell the triangular desire among adolescents, from one building to another in the very Houellebecquien 13th arrondissement. A subject at the opposite of the “
artificiality
” of
Brothers Sisters
. “
If we always reproduce the same thing, we want to doze off,
” he explains at a press conference. It was we who were sleeping. Audiard may have ventured into a field, that of tumultuous adolescent desires, too far from him. But, one of the revelations of this 74th edition, Noémie Merlant sparkles there. We also saw her in
Mi Iubita
, his rather long first feature film, gently initiating a nice Gypsy to love.
Noémie Merlant sparkles in
Olympiades
by Jacques Audiard.
CHRISTOPHE SIMON / AFP
The July 14th fireworks display was even more beautiful from the Palais terraces. An actor, sinister as a Haneke film, explains to a colleague that it is necessary to "
let the text rest
". He assures us that the technique is "
magic
". Another recounts his abortive career in the United States: "
I knew Quentin Tarantino's manager well, but you see ...
" In the streets, pretty dresses dodge the ice cream cones. Punks take pictures of themselves in front of the red carpet. But they did not enter the palace, as did in 1978 a group of anarchists determined to spray the face of a comically unruffled Gilles Jacob. We see this archive in the documentary
Morceaux de Cannes
available on MyCanal. Will Spike Lee have seen the fireworks display from his room at the Martinez? The president of the jury, by his own admission, refuses to party to concentrate on the selection. This does not prevent him from finding the time to sign postcards representing the poster of the festival sold for 100 dollars each on his site.
The arrival of Timothée Chalamet, created the riot, we said the day before yesterday (that he asks his fans to stop, they flood Instagram with their selfies)? On the Richter scale of fame, she actually elicited only a jerk compared to that of Karim Benzema. The magnificent return of the France team set foot in Cannes on Wednesday. Suddenly, a legion of iPhones rose into the air. Snapchat hasn't lost a single step. The footballer was on a goguette on the Croisette to visit Mohamed Henni, commentator of the round ball on social networks. One of his colleagues at Réal, Marcelo Vieira, accompanied by his actress wife Clarice Alves, had also climbed the steps earlier in the week. "
I don'tcan't get over seeing Karim
, explains a young man from Grasse with his friends, all in tap dance socks.
Football is life.
On the other hand, apart from Magimel who was on Netflix, the actors, I don't know any.
The stars are now only on the water and in the stadiums.
Benjamin Puech
Cannes Cancans
François Ozon, Sophie Marceau and André Dussollier.
John MACDOUGALL / AFP
"No bra"
If on the screen the actors get rid of their underwear easily this year, the women on the red carpet, willingly drop their bras.
Fashion is “
no bra
”.
Model Bella Hadid and her golden lung trees, singer Camélia Jordana, Sophie Marceau and Lou Doillon have proven it.
The summer atmosphere is probably not for nothing.
Various cities
In
Olympiades
,
Jacques Audiard also tells about the Asian communities living in Paris.
The actress Lucie Zhang speaks Chinese there, in the same way we heard Corsica speak in
Un Prophète
.
The filmmaker explains it by his taste for discovery.
And diversity.
“
I work with Tamils, other faces
, he explains in a press conference.
The French castings take me out through my nose holes.
I want to work with people I don't understand.
"
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Cinema service ticket
Deneuve faced in her long black dress.
CHRISTOPHE SIMON / AFP
Dear Catherine… Show must go on!
Catherine Deneuve climbed the steps of the Cannes Film Festival just a few hours before the death of her mother, who died in Paris, at the age of 109, as indicated on Thursday in the
Figaro
diary
. The eternal
Demoiselle de Rochefort
must have known what it was… She didn't show it. His smile was there. Its elegance too. The Cannes public had thronged in droves around the Grand Palais for their comeback, eighteen months after their stroke. As in the tube of the group Queen
Show Must Go on!
, Deneuve faced in her long black dress. Her
"makeup could well crack, her smile has always remained bright"
, sang Freddie Mercury. Is there any irony of fate to be sought in this tragic combination of circumstances? Surely not… In 2012, Catherine Deneuvre mentioned her mother, actress Renée Dorléac, as follows:
“It's incredible, yes, my mother is 100 years old. She lives alone at home, plays bridge, wears glasses but retains very good hearing and a great head. (…) I tell myself that when it comes to energy, we should take a lot of my mother, my sisters and me! "
It is the prerogative of people show knowledge hide their emotions behind the mask of the commedia dell arte. We could perhaps speak of synchronicity. Signed Emmanuelle Bercot, the film which resuscitates Deneuve is entitled
De son vivant
. She plays the mother of a thirty-something (Benoît Magimel) suffering from terminal cancer. At the end of the screening, the audience gave him a magnificent standing ovation.