Cannes 2019: Elton at the Piano and Passion for Almodovar
The official program of the 72nd Cannes Film Festival was announced today in France. The director of the show, Thierry Fremault, immediately outlined the main themes of this year - politics and romance. He also proudly noted that Cannes is trying not to forget about the role of women in cinema (it's not for nothing that the young Agnes Varda flaunts on the poster). Trying to maintain the gender balance of the contestants, the Directorate selected 13 films made by women for the program. Of course, the choice of the commission brought its own glee and disappointment. For example, Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood film, so much anticipated not only on the Cote d'Azur, but all over the world, will still not be seen."We would really like to see Quentin with us, but his tape is still on the editing table,"- upset the press Fremo. However, in Cannes will bring their new masterpieces Pedro Almodovar, Bong Joon-ho, brothers Dardenne, Terrence Malik, Werner Herzog and our Kantemir Balagov (second consecutive work at the Cannes Film Festival). Fremo noted that the directorate is still waiting for some of the films, and by May 14 the list may be replenished with several worthy contestants.So far, the 2019 line-up of the festival is as follows. As we wrote earlier, a look at the Croisette will open a horror comedy by Jim Jarmusch, full of absurd and black humor, "The Dead Don't Die". It will also be included in the Main Program. She also got: "Pain and Glory" (Pedro Almadovar) "Traitor" (Marco Bellochio) Wild Goose Lake (Diao Yingan) "Parasites" (Bong Joon-ho) "Young Ahmed" (Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne) "Oh my God!" (Arno Deplechen) "Atlantic" (Mati Diop) "Mathias and Maxim" (Xavier Dolan) Little Joe (Jessica Hausner) "Sorry we missed you" (Ken Loach) Les Miserables (Laj Lee) Radegund (Terrence Malick) Nightjars (Giuliano Dornell & Kleber Mendonza Filho) "The Whistlers" (Corneliu Porumboiu) "Family Rest" (Ira Sachs) "Portrait of a Woman on Fire" (Celine Schiamma) "This must be heaven" (Elia Suleiman) "Sybil" (Justine Trier)  Although the Cannes Film Festival is the focus of conservatism in the modern world of online services and high technologies (one has only to recall the war with Netflix, which withdrew all its films from the festival, and the ban on selfies on the Red Carpet), its organizers are still trying to pay tribute to massive hits. expected around the world. Therefore, out of competition there will be shown Elton John's musical biopic "The Rocketman", and the singer himself will come to the premiere. Thierry Fremault even promised a surprise for the guests of the festival in the form of a piano hidden somewhere in the hall. Perhaps we will see Elton perform live. In addition, the first two episodes of Nicholas Winding Refna's series "Too Old to Die Young", "The Best Years of My Life" by the true classic of French cinema Claude Lelouch, "Maradona" by Asif Kapadia, known for filming "The Mind Hunter" and the moving biopic by Amy Winehouse, as well as Belle Epoque by Nicolas Bedos.  A graduate of Alexander Sokurov's laboratory, Kantemir Balagov, with the drama "Dylda" got into the program "Special Look", and Bruno Dumont, Christophe Honore and other directors will join him there. The Cannes Film Festival kicks off on May 14, with Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu elected as the head of the main competition jury. The honorary Palme d'Or this year will be awarded to the stunning actor and sex symbol of his time Alain Delon (Eclipse, In the bright sun, Rocco and his brothers). UPD: in early May, the festival's management announced that Quentin Tarantino had finished editing Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and would not only bring the tape to the Cote d'Azur, but also compete with it for the main prize of the show. In addition, the main competition included the melodrama of Abdelatif Keshish "Mectub, my love 2". Another star guest of Cannes will be Sylvester Stallone, who will present the guests of the event with the next part of "Rambo" - "Last Blood". And the closing film of the 72nd Cannes Film Festival was chosen by a new film directed by "1 + 1", Olivier Nakasha and Eric Toledano - "Special". Author: Ksenia Shcherbakova The Topic of Article: Cannes 2019: Elton at the Piano and Passion for Almodovar. |
