Away from the red carpet, a late morning rally against pension reforms in France took place at Cannes train station, called by the General Confederation of Trade Unions (CGT), a union with more than 600,000 members.
The very loud explosion of an agricultural bomb caused cardiac arrest in a passer-by, a journalist from Agence France-Presse reports. According to a police source, this elderly man, who was in serious condition, was subsequently treated by firefighters.
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A terrific cast for the new Wes Anderson
As for the official competition, Wes Anderson, the director of The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) or Aboard the Darjeeling Limited (The Darjeeling Limited, 2007), returns with Asteroid City and a new all-star cast.
The latter features believers like Tilda Swinton and Jeff Goldblum, as well as new faces like Margot Robbie, Tom Hanks, and Scarlett Johansson (playing a famous actress lost in the middle of the desert).
Coming back in competition two years after “The French Dispatch,” which took place in a postcard from France, the Texan sets his action this time in a fictional American town in the middle of the desert, bringing parents, high school and college students together for science competitions.
Steve Carell, Aristou Meehan and Liv Schreiber in a scene from the movie “Asteroid City”
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On this occasion, unexpected events occur that turn the world upside down, according to the film’s trailer, which will be released June 23 in North America.
Known for his tongue-in-cheek style, Wes Anderson first landed in Cannes in 2012 with Moonrise Kingdom, offering instantly recognizable cinema with a retro visual palette and a penchant for symmetry that’s often emulated on Instagram.
It remains to be seen whether it will manage to renew itself and seduce the jury chaired by Ruben Östlund, who has already seen more than half of the 21 works in the Palme d’Or competition.
Consecrated at the age of 83 years for Marco Bellocchio?
Another candidate for the top award will present his new film on Tuesday. This is the Italian Marco Bellocchio, 83, a regular in Cannes, who was awarded the Palme d’Or in 2021.
The author of films that denounce religion or the army will reveal The Abduction, based on the true story of Edgardo Mortara, a forcibly converted Jewish child. The action takes place in the Jewish quarter of Bologna, where in 1858 the Pope’s soldiers broke into the home of the Mortara family to take their seven-year-old son and enable him to receive a Catholic education.
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Will Bellocchio finally receive the consecration when Italian cinema has not been crowned for more than 20 years? He has consistently eluded the coveted trophy despite his eight selections from The Leap into the Void (1980) to Traitor (2019).
Italy has two more chances to win the Palm, with Nanni Moretti (consecrated in 2001 for La chambre du fils) returning on Wednesday with Towards a radiant Future, and Alice Rohrwacher, who follows a young archaeologist who gets involved in a group is Tomb Raider in 1980s Italy at La Chimère, screened in official competition on Friday.