And Harrison Ford walked the red carpet. Hand in hand with his wife, Calista Flockhart, to the music of John Williams, who is as devoted to his character as he is, Ford walked the red carpet sober but smiling. So fast that he outpaced the rest of his Indiana Jones companions and the Dial of Destiny, the climax of this Thursday in Cannes, scheduled as a special session in the middle of a gray and glittering afternoon. Ford and Flockhart returned their steps, leaving the cast of French film Rosalie, starring Benoît Magimel and rising star Nadia Tereszkiewicz, for a minute to enjoy the red carpet and returned with the entire Indiana crew, Cast and direction of the fifth and final adventure film: alongside Ford, actors Mads Mikkelsen, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Boyd Holbrook, Shaunette Renée Wilson and child Ethann Isidore, along with director James Mangold and producers, as well as Hollywood heavyweights Frank Marshall and Lucasfilm- President Kathleen Kennedy.
Mads Mikkelsen, Harrison Ford, director James Mangold and Phoebe Waller-Bridge pose for photographers. Joel C Ryan (Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)
At the top, General Delegate Thierry Frémaux and the President of the event, Iris Knobloch, were waiting for them, more than half an hour late, as Cannes pointed out in this edition. They all waved together from the bottom of the stairs and were greeted with applause from all the standing stands in the Lumière room. In the lobby, Flockhart carefully removed a lipstick cast from her husband: neither of them knew that minutes later the actor would receive an honorary Palme d’Or.
Harrison Ford with Cannes Film Festival President Iris Knobloch and his palm of honour.VALERY HACHE (AFP)
It was Indiana Jones Day. Probably not the most important thing for Thierry Frémaux, a Scorsese fan who has been campaigning for his return to Cannes for years. But it was for the hundreds of onlookers who gazed at the balconies of the houses on the Croisette next to the red carpet. Among the crowd that crowded the area where the stars stepped out of the limousines, some dressed up as Indiana Jones, others were showing DVDs of the saga, and some carried photos of Harrison Ford with phrases like “I love you.” In the traffic jam on the carpet that gathered film crews from other fields (for example, Steve McQueen with his four-hour documentary about Amsterdam captured by the Nazis), stars, influencers and models, French composer Jean Michel Jarre and French composer Jean Michel Jarre performed to Chinese actress Gong Li, a marriage as long-lasting as it is strange, to whom the DJ dedicated an excerpt from Oxygène, one of his most popular albums; Charlie Heaton from Stranger Things; Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in a huge hooded cape. Of course, Tom Cruise and his Top Gun didn’t have planes like last year: this is the 76th edition of the competition and the anniversary celebrations will no longer be repeated.
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Swallowed up yesterday by the opening and premiere of Pedro Almodóvar’s mid-length film, Cannes has been paying little attention to Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (which hits theaters June 30 in the rest of the world) up to this point. Just a promotional poster for the film on the door of the Carlton Hotel. The competition devours dozens of films each day and hosts several festivals in one, though it does pay homage to the film icon at sunset.
French singer Bilal Hassani in Cannes. LOIC VENANCE (AFP)
However, there is little left of the icon on the screen, at least at launch. In August 1969, Indiana Jones felt cut off from the world. Just hours from retiring as a professor of archeology at Hunter College, where he regularly lectures, he reflects on his loneliness in a modest New York apartment. Man has reached the moon and Indy, the divorce papers. Only the arrival of his goddaughter, Helena Shaw, who wants to take over Antikythera, a computer said to have been created by Archimedes and recovered by Indiana and the new adventurer’s father at the end of World War II, and a group of Nazis who also want the acquisition of the Machine will force the world’s most famous archaeologist off the couch.
Fifteen years have passed since the blip caused by Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the final theorist of a saga that had its greatest hits between 1981 and 1989, as Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Death”. were released. and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. At least in adventure, there was no character at his level. According to the American Film Institute, Indiana Jones is the second greatest hero in film history, second only to attorney Atticus Finch, played by Gregory Peck, in To Kill The Nightingale. In the past, Indiana may have had somewhat more dubious morals; In this part, however, she steadfastly maintains her integrity and instead points out her dubious methods to her goddaughter.
Harrison Ford and Phoebe Waller-Bridge pose for photographers in the morning to promote Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Associated Press/LaPresse (APN)
Because unlike in the previous films, Indiana is not the only protagonist in this part. His goddaughter Helena, played by the actress and screenwriter Phoebe Waller-Bridge (creator of series like Fleabag or Killing Eve and the screenplay for The Last Bond, No Time to Die), shares the screen and travels with him, exuding the mischievous spirit of the young Indiana Jones More changes in depth: he no longer directs at Spielberg as in the previous four years, but the witness is taken over by James Mangold, a great director of adventure films with a classic flavor: he knows how to tell tales of old glory narrated as confirmed by Cop Land and Logan. According to Lucasfilm producer and president Kathleen Kennedy, it was Harrison Ford who asked for one last tango. “He didn’t want it to end and asked for another adventure,” Kennedy said a few months ago. Now the last journey – he started it at the age of 38 – has caught the actor at the age of 80 (on screen it is assumed that he is 65 years old, and in the opening sequence he returns to his age thanks to a good digital makeover). age back). glory days in World War II). Three weeks ago, Spielberg said he saw the film with Mangold and other Disney execs and when the lights came on he told them, “Damn! I thought I was the only one who knew how to do something like that!”
This professor – created by George Lucas in memory of the film series of the 1930s and 1940s – was born in 1973 as pure entertainment, old-fashioned adventure, cinematic enjoyment that quickly found suitable villains: the Nazis. Four years later Lucas shared these ideas with his friend Steven Spielberg and together they sold the concept to Paramount Pictures after the success of Star Wars: and there they were already exploring the idea of a saga.
Bianca Stigter and Steve McQueen on the red carpet. LOIC VENANCE (AFP)
Icon since 1981
Henry Walton Jones Jr. has been a hit since the first film premiered on June 12, 1981. He may not have been a meticulous archaeologist, but he did teach several generations the importance of carefully guarding ancient objects and that all those relics hidden within were an adventure. From its success came TV series (The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones), films with similar characters (The Mummy, King Solomon’s Mines, The National Treasure Saga, The Goonies, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, the animated films Tadeo Jones or The DaVinci Code). ) and even video games like Tomb Raider.
And full of nooks and crannies. At the promotion in the USA, Mangold assured: “Indiana Jones is a character that surprises us again and again. They can be selfish, sensitive, brave, or even cowardly. And Harrison brought all of those elements together. He’s not a Greek-style hero, he’s a human. All these eccentricities, phobias and neuroses are part of his charm. He has, yes, one superpower: tremendous luck.
In “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Fate” this happiness is treated as an ironic element in numerous sequences. Beginning with the opening, which is set in the final days of World War II in Europe and also serves to introduce villain on duty Jürgen Voller (played by Mads Mikkelsen), a Nazi archaeologist who, like Indiana, is searching for relics of genteel, like the Spearhead of Longinos, the Roman centurion who pierced Jesus Christ on the cross, or the Antikythera, a machine created by Archimedes that was intended for more than just astronomical calculations, since it could serve as a time machine, and that the Greek mathematician after the fall of Syracuse, which was 212 B.C. BC was conquered by the Romans. C. Voller reappears in 1969 working for the US government on the space program and is accompanied by a small army of neo-Nazis. Mangold and his authors have recaptured the classic enemies of Indiana and left aside the Soviets, the villains of the fourth part.
Supermodel Karlie Kloss poses on the red carpet. SEBASTIEN NOGIER (EFE)
Are some characters returning from the first trilogy? Yes, Sallah, the Arab friend played by Jonathan Rhys-Davies, is now a cab driver in New York, and his wife Marion (Karen Allen)’s shadow runs through the story. Antonio Banderas joins the group as Renaldo, a slightly insane Spanish diver and naval veteran living in the Greek islands, a friend who has accompanied Jones on previous voyages and sworn his eternal loyalty. They are the prelude to what looks set to be another success for the Jones universe, which has grossed nearly €2,000 million in cinemas alone.
Without Harrison Ford there will be no Indiana Jones. Despite the rumors for years of his replacement by Bradley Cooper or Chris Pratt, despite the fact that he’s had the face of other actors like Corey Carrier, River Phoenix, Sean Patrick Flanery, George Hall on the big or small screen, The Producers and Ford have already confirmed that this will be his final venture. After filming in Morocco, Sicily – the film is mainly set in the Mediterranean region – Scotland, England and the mythical Pinewood Studios in London, Indiana is over.
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