Cannes 2024 Day 3
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Expected at Cannes like the messiah, Coppola's “Megalopolis” is a self-portrait. At once anachronistic and retro-futuristic, the film depicts a Roman republic transposed to a futuristic New York, and the two men who design it.
Ponderings of the beyonds and the underneaths of revenge in “Furiosa” and “Ghost Trail”, between playing at war and living it, forgiving or getting revenge, in actual video games where the violence is faked and playful, and real-life wars where it comes into being.
A guest unveils themselves by answering our nosy questions. Today, filmmaker Xavier Dolan, president of the jury for Un Certain Regard.
In “Ghost Trail”, Jonathan Millet's hypnotic first feature presented at the Critics' Week, Adam Bessa is impressive as Hamid, a Syrian spy hunting his former tormentor in a dark and dusky Strasbourg. We meet the young actor whose passion for his work shines through.
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The Quinzaine’s party takes on the air of a company seminar, glamour is dead, and all that's left to do is to dance as a family.
The exile of a young Maghrebi is pictured over ten years in this melodrama as elegant as it is stunningly beautiful. This feature is marked by a vagueness, a depiction of the immigrant’s journey characterized not by its tangibility, but by its impressions and the feelings they evoke.
The first foray into fiction of Italian documentary filmmaker Roberto Minervini, this war film depicts the down-times of an armed conflict with striking sensory quality and portrays the monotonous, seemingly insignificant daily life of these soldiers waiting for an enemy that won’t come.
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Presented for Un Certain Regard, “Le Procès du chien”, the first film directed by Lætitia Dosch, tells the humorous story of an eccentric Swiss lawyer defending in court the case of a guide dog who, for biting a woman in the face, is threatened to be put down. By defending the status of dogs and its right to escape the death penalty, Lætitia Dosch opens up broader questions about our relationship with other living beings.
This first feature film tells the tale of 18-year-old Totone and his quest for wealth, which he hopes to achieve by winning prizes at agricultural competitions for his Comté cheese. This lively and galvanizing film contains every ingredient of the contemporary western - love, brawls, wild chases.
