Journal de Cannes: farewell to the arena

He came armed with a 35mm: rolling thunderby John Flynn, with William Devane, released in 1977. “The best revenge film in the history of cinema”ensures Quentin Tarantino to the eight hundred people (two hundred were refused) who flocked to the Croisette theater, bastion of La Quinzaine des cinéastes. The festival-goers welcome him as a rockstar. The director of pulp Fiction jubilee. On the music of Reservoir Dogs, he says he discovered this film with his mother, then imitates the Tarantino he was at 14 years old. Before asking the French if they can be a little less so during the hour and a half that will follow: “Let’s add a little American spirit to this session, if you want to scream, do it, if you are afraid, scream! » In rolling thunder, a soldier returning from Vietnam is reunited with his wife and son. Killers arrive in their house. They shouldn’t have. The film ends in a Mexican brothel. We come out refreshed…