Cannes Film Festival: Highlights from week 1

This year's film festival in Cannes has all the usual shine and glamor, but is also in politics.

AFP considers some of the topics, films and fashion moments that caused a sensation in the first week.

The festival ends on May 24th when the winner of the prestigious palm trees is announced for the best film.

– dress code red carpet –

Hollywood star Halle Berry was the best-known victim of the festival's dress code, which forbids extravagant large dresses and “Total Nackity” on the red carpet.

The “Monster's Ball” star, who is on the jury this year, was forced to change the clothes at the last minute on the opening evening after judging her dress from the Indian designer Gaurav Gupta as too long.

Others seemed to hit the rules, including the German model Heidi Klum, who was at least three meters long in a rose of pink evening dress.

– New #metoo rules –

After years of scandals in the film industry and the pressure to take a position, the festival announced that he had excluded an actor in a prominent French film from the red carpet due to allegations of rape.

Theo Navarro-Mussy, who plays a police officer in a supportive role in the film “Dossier 137”, became the first person affected by the new politics.

He denies the allegations and a first police investigation was concluded last month without indictment.

– cruise show –

Tom Cruise swept in Cannes with a hype steam switch to “Mission: Impossible – The End Reckoning”, which led to mixed reviews on Wednesday.

Director Christopher McQuarria revealed that Cruise and his own stunts in power in South Africa had gone a little far and could have died.

Cruise crowded to the point of exhaustion after climbing on the wing of a stunt double decor, which he controlled alone.

“He was on the wing of the aircraft. His arms hung over the front of the wing. We couldn't say whether he was awareness,” said the US filmmaker

– Early favorites –

A total of 22 films are for the Palme d'Or, whereby early favorites are a German-language drama “The Sound of Fallen” about a generation trauma and experimental rave road-road thriller “Sirat”.

According to an analysis of the points of the critics of the film magazine Screen, the leader is an contemplative drama about justice and cruelty in the Soviet Union entitled “Two public prosecutor's office” by the Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa.

“Russian society is different from the Soviet society in the 20th century, but essence is the same,” the 60-year-old director told AFP.

-actor who have become directors-

This year's festival offers a trio of excessive directorial debut of actors.

Harris Dickinson, the 28 -year -old “baby girl” actor, praised his first film “Undin”, while “Twilight” star Kristen Stewart (35) demonstrated her talent behind the camera in “The Chronology of Water”.

“Be gentle with me … it's my first film, so if you don't like it, broke it to me,” said Dickinson about “Undin”, who tells the story of a homeless person in London.

The American A-Lister Scarlett Johansson will reveal their debut film “Eleanor the Great” to the audience on Monday.

– Gazastriah – –

The war in Gaza was a constant topic of conversation after almost 400 top film characters had signed an open letter on the eve of the festival, in which Israel was convicted of his “passivity” “genocide”.

The head of the Cannes jury Juliette Binoche added her signature to at least four palm d'Or winner directors in Cannes and the actors Ralph Fiennes and Richard Gere this week.

A decreasing documentary about the Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassouna, which was killed in an Israeli air raid on her house in Gaza, left his audience in stunned silence when he premiered on Thursday and the director Sepideh Farsi in tears.

– Bob's moment –

Robert de Niro was visibly emotional on the opening evening when his friend and frequent co-star Leonardo DiCaprio gave him an award price for his lifetime.

Then he composed to tear himself off from his old enemy Donald Trump, whom he called “America's philistine president”.

– Trump -ära –

Trump was one of the main discussion points in Cannes after announcing on May 5 that he wanted to have 100 percent tariffs for films that were “produced in foreign countries”.

Actors, directors and producers have faced the idea as bad and self -destructive.

Others have joined de niro's demands to resist Trump, including the Chilean-American actor Pedro Pascal, who asked Hollywood “to fuck people who try to frighten you-and defend themselves”.

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