Just scroll through the non-exhaustive list of celebrities walking the Palais’ red carpet at the much-anticipated premiere of new film by Martin Scorsesefour years after The Irishman: Salma Hayek and her husband Pinault, Claude Lelouche and her godmother Chiara Mastroianni, Oscar-winning directors Pedro Almodovar and Alfonso Cuaron, Costa Gavras, visual artist and director in turn JR. However, the focus is entirely on the protagonists of The Killers of the Flower Moon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert DeNiro and of course the eighty-year-old director.
Croisette is excited for the return of the former prodigy, who at 48 still retains the boyish face that millions of Titanic-era teenagers fell in love with around the world. In the rain, fans have been waiting for him since morning for autographs, selfies and hugs. For DiCaprio, it’s returning to Cannes after the 2019 Hollywood premiere of Quentin Tarantino’s film Once Upon a Time… starring Brad Pitt. The audience behind the fence held up placards with hearts, placards, sacred images with Leo DiCaprio’s face, there were also very young girls from Italy, all with cell phones and notebooks ready for autographs, some even gave their number “I”. Become an actor would like”.
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In addition to Scorsese and his good guys, there was also a large delegation of Osage Indians, who are the protagonists of the film. Based on the novel by David Grann, it is set in 1920’s Oklahoma and tells the story the true story of the assassination of several members of the Osage Nationan area rich in oil settlements and populated by a Native American community.
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DiCaprio plays a man who marries Mollie (the local actress). Lily Gladstone) One of the four sisters, who inherited a large sum for the oil found in their territory, will be implicated in the extermination of this people, driven by the greed of their uncle William Hale, a kind of local sheriff (De Niro).
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Also on the red carpet was a large representation of the Osage community attending the film. The men wore the traditional blankets they are famous for over their tuxedos. Toby Maguire great friend of DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett who, thanks to Scorsese with DiCaprio, won his first Oscar again with The Aviator Isabelle Huppert, Kate Hudson, Robbie Williams, Paul Dano, Gaspar Noe, Rossy De Palma.
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