In black and white on the poster for this 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, Catherine Deneuve awakens nostalgia for the golden age of Franco-Italian cinema. LOIC VENANCE/AFP
CHRONIC – Jeanne Du Barry, American stars, regulars, surprises, threats: welcome to the Croisette for this 76e editing.
The good news is that cinema is not dead. Those who in the wake of the Covid predicted its disappearance are at their expense. He stands up. While the American Super Mario Bros. prances at the top of the poster (6 million admissions), seven national productions have already exceeded one million spectators in France this year. ofAsterix and Obelix to three musketeers ofAlibi.com to the unexpected I will always see your faces And On the dark pathsthe offer is as fluctuating as the quality.
The magic of watching a movie together, the need to leave home to leave reality is not extinguished. The stars, to remain so, need space.
With its postcard decor – palm trees, Croisette and blue sky -, its legend and its prize list, its VIPs in dark gles and its climb up the stairs in a tuxedo, its proletarian revolts and its intellectual pretensions, the Cannes Film Festival embodies in the eyes of the world this feeling of escape. He is an illusion…
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