The blue of the sea and the yellow of Ukraine.
President Volodymyr Zelensky's speech the night before brought the Cannes Film Festival, which was just beginning, to a painful reality.
Reality around which the actors often revolve without really knowing what to do with it.
Virginie Efira began her opening speech with the eternal question: “
Can cinema upset the world?
“Clever and sober in her speech, the Franco-Belgian actress replied: the world probably not, our perception of it, perhaps.
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The essay exercise continued with Vincent Lindon, touched by the moving retrospective tape of his career projected on the big screen.
The president (of the jury) wondered, without fearing lyricism: “
Shouldn't we evoke from this platform (...) the torments of a bleeding planet.
No doubt, but what can we say if not new or at least useful?
He almost apologized for playing "
defeated
" characters who deserve so much more "
honor than him
."
After this speech, Massimo Gargia, dapper despite his 80 years, was to look enviously at the career of the Dardenne brothers.
$152 million budget
Fortunately, the magic of cinema can reappear around the corner of the canvas.
It is Jean-Pierre Léaud, 77, watching the screening of
La Maman et la Putain
, almost fifty years after Jean Eustache's film caused a scandal in Cannes.
Almost invisible so far, it has been restored and will be released in theaters.
At the end of 3:40, in the gestures of thanks of Léaud reflected those of Alexandre, his character at Eustache, and Antoine Doisnel, his double at Truffaut.
What a funny cinematic fate.
“
I have the same will and the same vehemence as I had at the time of the
400 Blows”, testified in 2015 in
So Film
the actor, who now faces the weight of the years.
Movie magic can also appear in a corner of the sky.
In the evening, to celebrate the release of
Top Gun: Maverick
, the Patrouille de France will put white and red in Cannes blue.
A partnership with the Americans of Paramount, who skimp on nothing for the release of this film costing 152 million dollars.
On the side of the Air Force, the operation, it is hoped and believed, will bring vocations.
As the first part did in the United States 30 years ago.
Earlier, Tom Cruise met on the tarmac in Nice, where his plane landed, the pilots of the patrol.
The opportunity to discuss their respective flight experiences.
From the skies still, a helicopter and a plane scan the bay of Cannes, we learn in the
Nice-Matin
.
The security system also includes gunners on the roofs and two marine launches offshore.
Movie stars surround themselves with bodyguards.
For the safety of their jewelry or their person.
"
Approaching people in crowds can be awkward
," said a seasoned security officer.
Often they tend to think that celebrities belong to them.
Cannes therefore offers full employment to bodyguards in the area.
which are not always in focus.
“
There is a certain amateurism among boys who have a completely different job all year round and take advantage of the arrival of the festival
“, observes the same professional.
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In front of the Palais des Festivals, a Cannes woman has taken the lead.
She impatiently scrutinizes the arrival of the Patrouille de France, whose precise time of passage, in the evening, has not yet been revealed.
"
Going to heaven is my belief!"
, enthuses then this sexagenarian.
I am deeply Christian, I also pray for the smooth running of the festival.
She adds: "
Everyone is waiting for Tom Cruise, when we should above all be waiting for Christ, our Lord...
" He will only have to think about putting on a tuxedo, the agents at the reception are the intractable type .
