Marion Cotillard reunited with Guillaume Canet, a storm named Cantona: on the program for the Cannes Film Festival on Friday

The Cannes Film Festival started three days ago, which is enough to take you around the world and around emotions. Critics and festival-goers attended a review in Japanese, nostalgia sequences (Peter Jackson’s Hobbits, Vin Diesel’s drifts) and discovered a great film (see below). Today, they will meet Queen Deneuve in a thriller and “King Éric” in a documentary entitled Cantona.

TODAY’S STORY

Palm of nostalgia for Vin Diesel

He never thought their cars would take them this far. Twenty-five years after the first episode of Fast and FuriousVin Diesel (an appropriate surname) led a delegation of daredevil drivers on the Croisette on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday. For a nostalgic “midnight screening” screening. Another way for the festival to attract stars, this nighttime screening served as a showcase for nostalgia. Vin Diesel showed that he had a heart as big as his arms. The memories of his ” brother “ Paul Walker, actor in the saga who died in a road accident in 2013, left him speechless. The fifty-year-old was searching for his words, under the gaze of Meadow, the late actor’s only daughter whose character continues to appear on screen thanks to technology. The franchise will roar with an eleventh opus in 2028, but also through series. The saga has already garnered more than seven billion dollars in revenue. More than Jurassic Park or Avatar .

HEARD IN CANNES

 

“The movie The Life of Adèle changed a lot of things. I had almost never seen female couples on the street before. Since then, I have the impression that in France, at least in Paris and in the big cities, the situation has greatly evolved. This example shows that cinema can break gender stereotypes”

Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet, director of “The Life of a Woman”, film in competition

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TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS

The Cantona storm

Éric Cantona no longer wants to talk about football. For the British David Tryhorn and Ben Nicholas, the Marseillais, however, made an effort. The ex-Manchester United prodigy turned singer and actor on TF1, known for his free kicks and his rants, takes part in a documentary soberly titled Cantona and screened in a “special screening” at 2:30 p.m. The almost sixty-year-old is also in the credits of Wonderful morningsa first film selected on Saturday in “Special Screening”, where he plays a dreamy wine merchant named Titou.

The Japanese spirit of Virginie Efira

The most French of Belgian actresses plays in Side stories by Asghar Farhadi, already one of the worst films in the competition. Did she have more flair in betting on Suddenlyde Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Drive my car ) ? Contrary to what its title indicates, the feature film lasts a little over three hours. It follows a nursing home director who dreams for her patients, not of a makeover, but of kindness. Screened at 2 p.m., the film is vying for the Palme d’Or.

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Guillaume Canet takes care of his Karma

Do we know our loved ones? In KarmaGuillaume Canet’s ninth film, a woman with a troubled past is accused of having kidnapped her godson, but her companion doesn’t believe it. Marion Cotillard lends her features to this funny lady. The director’s ex-partner, who has distanced herself from the sets to be closer to her family in recent years, should make the trip for this out-of-competition screening. Check in at 6:30 p.m.

Catherine Deneuve, kind sacred monster

Do we know our loved ones? (bis) Marie Kreutzer presents at 10 p.m. in competition Gentle Monster. In French “nice monsters”. Those around us who inadvertently reveal disturbing faces. The daring Austrian filmmaker brings Frenchies Léa Seydoux and Catherine Deneuve into her domestic thriller. The octogenarian, who also appears in Side stories by Asghar Farhadi, rarely misses an opportunity to join the Croisette.

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LAST EVENING AT THE PALAIS DES FESTIVALS

And suddenly, a great film

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Profession: genius girl. In Fatherlanddu Polonais Pawel Pawlikowski, Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a fall ) embodies the offspring of Thomas Mann, actress and writer responsible for watching over and tucking in the great man back home. The screening at the Grand Théâtre Lumière was the occasion for a long standing ovation. The director of Cold Warprize for directing at Cannes in 2018, is positioned for the prize. And Sandra Hüller, for the future Oscars? The feature film “striking with its beauty”applauds our critic Étienne Sorin.