It's been Friday for an hour.
A colorful crowd, where gold chains and colorful jackets stand out, stamps its way down to Magnum Beach, where the ice cream brand promotes itself.
The bouncers lose the hair they don't have.
"How beautiful are these seagulls in the light of the street lamps...
", notes, blissfully, a journalist in the fray.
Downstairs, the swingers speak English and Instagram stats.
Actor ?
Has been.
It's the influencers' turn to take over the Croisette.
We even meet Danielle, the fun youtuber almost seventy years old from Studio Danielle.
She flutters and accepts requests for selfies, even clumsy ones.
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I'm an actor at the base
, explains a young Parisian in black marcel, taking out his phone
.
But I have my entries thanks to what I post on the networks.
Those with a long arm manage to capture a bit of Kylie Minogue in a video.
The star, who is traveling from the United States and back, sings a very sweet remix of his hit
Can't Get You Out Of My Head
.
Benjamin Pavard remains next to the dance floor, on the bench.
An old man in a flowery dress twirls to the electro sounds.
An influencer perches on ten centimeter heels.
And in the air swirl smoke from electronic cigars.
big hooves
This year, the festival is rolling out its red carpet on the platforms.
Through its partners Brut, which invited ten stars from networks including Squeezie and TikTok.
With the second, the marriage is already floundering.
Franco-Cambodian director Rithy Panh has resigned from the TikTok short film jury, which he chaired.
Before resuming its place after the platform has reversed.
“
The difficulty is that this company is focused on marketing,
testifies the director in
L'Obs.
A competition with a jury, this must rhyme with total independence on the choices.
The Chinese platform would have given "
suggestions
" of names to reward.
Jerzy Skolimowski could give him some lessons in artistic independence.
The pope of the Polish New Wave gives the leading role, in his new film, to... a donkey.
Fighting against his destiny (to become salami), the equine, who crosses paths with Isabelle Huppert, faces the darkness of men.
"
He tells us: 'Look at me, I am a living being like you. Like you, I have desires, I need affection'
", translates in a video the 84-year-old director, who recently came across head and stayed in Poland.
Here he signs a visual experiment that is, to say the least, particular.
“EO
carries a beautiful message.
This film should be shown everywhere
, ”judges a thrilled critic.
In all the stables?
Returning from the stars, the American director James Gray unveiled
Armageddon Time
to applause.
The film recalls how childhood memories, especially if they are painful, make the works to come.
This youth takes place in New York, where ancestors from Ukraine have landed.
"The war that is taking place there today
, assures the filmmaker in our columns,
has made me dark and cynical."
Conflict marks the festival.
Presented with dignity by the producer, co-director and editor, the documentary
Mariupol 2
, filmed by Mantas Kvedaravicius killed in March, was deeply moved.
And, to federate around the cause of kyiv, will undoubtedly have been more effective than the request formulated by Ukrainian representatives to exclude all Russians from the festival... That is to say the filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov, despite being opposed to the war.
