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Boarding for Cannes: an Indian minister and a Portuguese witch

2022-05-19T17:40:03.344Z


DAY 3 - The continental country, with its 2000 annual productions, is honored by the festival's Film Market.


Long limousines follow one another in front of the Majestic.

The hotel lobby buzzes like a train station concourse in Rajasthan.

A distinguished old lady makes her way with her walker.

Appears Anurag Thakur, black jodhpuri jacket, sunglasses and leather moccasins.

A Bollywood actor?

No, a minister.

Information and Broadcasting, Sports and Youth.

His close guard follows him closely.

Director Shekhar Kapur is not far behind.

This year, with this distinction, India is honored by the Film Market of the Cannes Film Festival.

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"

We feel real pride

," says the politician, after joining his suite.

He is convinced that his country will become the “

center of content production in the world

”.

2000 films are already produced there every year.

India is also one of the largest consumer markets and one of the largest in terms of smartphone users

, continues Anurag Thakur

.

All this creates a lot of opportunities for content creators.

From Westerners, there would only be their sense of “

marketing

” to draw inspiration from.

When the Minister is asked about the place reserved for characters from the lower classes in national productions, he begins with a formal defense of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's action with the poorest.

Before ensuring that representations change.

If it is obviously not a majority, independent cinema, far from Bollywood canons, has been making its voice heard in the country for several years.

We remember, for example,

Lunchbox

, a tasty social comedy Ritesh Batra presented at Cannes in 2013.

America in sight

Wednesday evening, when climbing the stairs, Indian outfits brighten up the black tide of tuxedos.

The dress code will obviously have been relaxed for these guests who came in large numbers.

Among them are beauties like actress Pooja Hegde and jury member Deepika Padukone.

A huge fireworks display illuminated the bay, fired during an official evening organized by the Indian pavilion.

François Busnel, then in full live, saw his program be nicely disturbed.

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Why is this man reciting his rosary mechanically?

On the Croisette, passers-by look funny.

We leave

Alma Viva

with a little worry.

This first film selected for Critics' Week takes place in a Portuguese village heated by the sun and neighborhood quarrels.

A strong, tattooed grandmother knows how to converse with spirits.

Her granddaughter looks at her, fascinated.

Ended up believing it in turn.

The director Cristèle Alves Meira instills a dose of strangeness in a contemporary decor, by staging the porosity of children's minds.

A success.

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, hate the cursed

I love what you write.

Seated in a noisy restaurant, a distributor grabs Éric Neuhoff, critic at

Le Figaro

.

The stars are not always where you think they are.

The tribute paid to Tom Cruise, the day before, is also thought-provoking.

The highest paid stuntman in the world received, in a single evening, an honorary palme d'or, the praise of Thierry Frémeaux and the honors of the Patrouille de France.

White cisgender heroes still have a bright future ahead of them.

The room was amazed by the loopings of Captain Mitchell.

As a well-behaved boy, Tom Cruise went to greet Françoise Fabian in the front row.

We would be curious to know what the actress thought of this American triumph.

Source: lefigaro

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