Welcome to the Croisette! Until May 23, stars and movie buffs (and a few freeloaders too) will meet in Cannes for the biggest film festival in the world. So obviously, 20 Minutes is on the spot.
The Cannes Film Festival as if you were there? It’s every evening with our recap. This Tuesday, the seventh day of competition, progressivism, Russia and Bolloré were on the agenda on the Croisette.
Movie of the day
Screened Wednesday in competition, Our salvation by Emmanuel Marre tells the war from the point of view of collaboration. No war scenes or heroic resistance fighters in this feature film, which portrays an official of the Vichy regime based in Limoges, an ordinary little cog in a monstrous machine.
Emmanuel Marre actually tells the story of his great-grandfather Henri Marre (played by Swann Arlaud), author of a book mixing managerial thought and patriotism entitled “Our Salvation”, which he tried to promote during the Vichy period. To inform the story, he relied on the correspondence between his grandfather and his wife…
Rather than dwelling on the most spectacular figures of collaboration – these “great collaborators” embodied by Jean Luchaire in Rays and shadowspress boss shot at the Liberation – the director chose to focus on an ordinary civil servant, one of the thousands of anonymous people who continued to work under Vichy.
The film, which is released on September 30, could relaunch the debate on the memory of the collaboration, after Rays and shadows released in March and judged by some, notably on the left, to be complacent with the figure of Jean Luchaire.
Photo of the day
Sentence of the day
« As Europeans, we are (…) obliged to become a sort of shield against monsters like Trump, Netanyahu or the Russian. We are obliged to do so because here, we respect international law. »
According to Pedro Almodóvar, the artist has a “moral duty” to talk about politics. “I’m not judging those who don’t do it, but silence and fear, because it’s obviously an expression of fear, are a very bad symptom, a symptom of depreciation of democracy,” declared the 76-year-old filmmaker during the press conference to present his film.
Fact of the day
Havana-born Hollywood star Andy Garcia said he wakes up every morning dreaming of a Cuba “free of repression.”
“Nobody wants war, but absolute repression and the suffering of the people in this country is not an alternative, it is not something to accept,” he declared Tuesday during an interview to promote his thriller “Diamond”, carried by a leading cast including his friends Bill Murray and Dustin Hoffman.
“If you ask the Cuban people, not the Cuban government […] Would they want us (United States), France, anyone, to intervene and save them? You would get unanimity, 90% of people would say: + Please come invade our country and rid us of these people, +” said the star of “Godfather 3” and “Ocean’s Eleven”.
