Cannes 2024 Day 4
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Savages is an animated French-Swiss film by Claude Barras, the maker of My Life as Zucchini. The film is an original ecological piece which follows the young Kélia in her struggle to save the forest of Borneo from being destroyed for the harvesting of palm oil.
With this three-part tale on the impossibility of being truly free, Yórgos Lánthimos proposes a slightly blunt successor to “Poor Things”, but an actual new playground for his actors and actresses.
A guest unveils themselves by answering our nosy questions. Today, Augustin Trapenard, the face of French cultural journalism and the daily host for the media Brut during the festival.
Depicting Truffaut through Truffaut’s own material - a combination of archive footage, letters, and an autobiographical account by the filmmaker himself - the film is the deeply moving portrait of a genius filmmaker who died much before his time
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A depiction of how first-time feature filmmaker Alexis Langlois manages to perform an embalming, through a combination of baroque distortions and crazed deference centered around the YouTube pop-culture of the 2000s, which in its process, comes quite close to De Palma's own intent when it came to Hitchcock's filmmaking - in short, how mannerisms can take hold of post-cinema.
A guest unveils themselves by answering our nosy questions. Today, Augustin Trapenard, the face of French cultural journalism and the daily host for the media Brut during the festival.
“Queens of Drama” (“Les Reines du drame”), Alexis Langlois’s first feature film and Critics' Week debut, is an opera about the thwarted loves of pop and punk, coupled with a feverish queer melodrama. We meet the young prodigy and their flamboyant team.
In Andrea Arnold's new film “Bird”, the British filmmaker returns to her social vein, introducing to the working-class suburbs of England an entire magical bestiary which appears life-saving and salutary amidst the violent daily life of a young girl.
Englishmen with bracelets sway to dancehall tunes, Justice wreaks havoc chaos, and the whole night becomes a tribute to academicism.
With “Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed”, presented at the Quinzaine des cinéastes, Hernán Rosselli manages to reinvent both the family film and the gangster film.