Cannes, France – Much of the world of cinema, including Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio and Quentin Tarantino, descended in the Cannes Film Festival As the extravagance of the French Riviera achieved Its 78th edition Ongoing Tuesday.
Expectations are working high for a Potentially Banner Cannes. All ingredients (a lot of stars, top -level filmmakers, political intrigue) seem to be aligned. During the next 12 days, Cannes will be the host of the premieres of megawatts, including those of “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning”, Spike Lee’s “the lowest” of Spike Lee and “Eddington” by Ari Aster.
DiCaprio bordered the red carpet but drew an ovation standing when he presented De Niro with an honorary palm of o. The moment, which brought together two of the most regular stars of Martin Scorsese, occurred 49 years after “taxi driver” was crowned with the palm d’Or.
DiCaprio praised De Niro as the actor of “El Arquetipo”, while praising the 81 -year -old artist, a fierce critic of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, for “fighting for our democracy.” When the crowd stood up for a long ovation for De Niro, DiCaprio gave him the palm. “Thank you, Kiddo,” said De Niro.
After thanking the festival, De Niro quickly turned to talk about Trump, who recently said he wants to promulgate a rate on films made outside the country.
“Art is the truth. Art hugs diversity. And that is why art is a threat to the autocrats and fascists of the world,” said De Niro. “The United States Philistine President had appointed the head of one of the main cultural institutions of the United States. He has reduced funds and support for arts, humanities and education. And now he announced a 100% tariff on films made outside the United States. You cannot put a price on connectivity.”
To the opening ceremony, which preceded the premiere of the French romance of Amélie Bonnin, “Leave One Day”, was assisted by Tarantino, who emerged to declare the open festival great, and then quickly abandoned the microphone and left the stage. On Wednesday, Tarantino will pay tribute to the western filmmaker George Sherman. He also attended: Sean Baker, the director of “Anora” and the winner of Palma d’Or last year.
The ceremony limited one day busy in Cannes that included a greeting of three films to Ukraine, the introduction of the jury that will decide La Palma d’Or, headed by Juliette Binoche, and the debut of a restoration of “The Gold Rush” by Charlie Chaplin for his centenary.
Cannes comes from a 2024 festival that produced a series of possible Oscar contenders, including “Emilia Pérez”, “The Sustance”, “Flow” and The winner of the best film, “Anora. “He asked on Monday if he feels the pressure this time, the director of the festival, Thierry Frémaux, said that the only type of pressure he believes is in beer.
Cannes launched the same day Gérard Depardieu, one of the most famous actors in France, He was convicted of having sexually assaulted two women in a set of 2021. In one of the most prominent #Metoo France He received a 18 -month suspended prison sentence. The 76 -year -old man has long been a regular presence in Cannes.
The Cannes Film Festival of this year, the main international film meeting, is also disapproving Trump’s Call the rates in films made abroad. The confusion about the plans still not formed characterized most of the answers.
“I don’t know what to say, in fact, about that,” Binoche told journalists on Tuesday. “We can see that he is fighting and trying in many different ways to save the United States and save his butt.”
Together with Binoche, the other eight jurors include Halle Berry and Jeremy Strong, who could not attend Cannes last year for the premiere of his Trump’s movie “The Amprentice”. Strong referred to that film, which led to his first Oscar nomination, in his comments about the US President on Tuesday.
“The truth is under assault,” Strong said. “Specifically in this temple of the film, the role of the film is increasingly critical because it can fight those forces in the entropy of truth, and can communicate truths, individual truths, human truths, social truths and affirm and celebrate our shared humanity.”
Berry, responding to Cannes’ New protocols in outfit for the red carpet, He said he had “an incredible dress” with a long train for the opening ceremony, but wore something else. Cannes has Nudiedad and prohibited dresses with long trains for its night premieres in the Palais.
“I had to make a pivot,” Berry said. “But the part of nudity, I think it is probably a good rule.”
Cannes will continue Tuesday’s festivities with Tom Cruise’s return on Wednesday. Three years after bringing “Top Gun: Maverick” to the festival, He is back with the last movie “Mission: Impossible”.
Twenty -two films will compete for the main Cannes Award, La Palma d’Or, which will be presented on May 24. Those films include “The Phoenician Sheme” by Wes Anderson, “Nouvelle Vague” by Richard Linklater, “Die”, El Suena “, by Kelly Rehacyrdt” by Lynne Ramsay, he sounds “, the sound of Kelly”, Kelly’s sounds “, Kelly’s sounds”, “Oliver” Mastermind “,” Oliver “,”, “,”, “,”, “,”, “,”, “,” El Suena “,” Oliver “,” De Oliver “,”, “,”. “
In the Cannes section without consideration, three prominent actors are making their debut as director: Harris Dickinson (“Urchin”), Kristen Stewart (“The chronology of water”) and Scarlett Johansson (“Eleanor The Great”).
It is likely that geopolitics play a leading role in Cannes, which began by detecting three documentaries of 2025 Ukraine: “Zelensky”, “Notre Guerre” by Bernard-Henri Lévy and the co-production of the front line Associated “2000 meters to Andriivka” By the Oscar winner “20 days in Mariupol” Mstyslav Chernov.
“This ‘Ukraine Day’ is a reminder of the commitment of artists, authors and journalists to tell the story of this conflict in the heart of Europe,” said the festival in a statement.
On Tuesday, more than 350 filmmakers, actors and others in the film industry, including Richard Gere, Pedro Almodovar, Javier Bardem, Viggo Mortensen and Mark Ruffalo, published an open letter in the French newspaper Libération and in varieties that call film institutions to respond more strongly to what they called “Genocide in Gaza.”
The acid, a parallel section of Cannes, includes the documentary “Put your soul in your hand and walk”. This is Fatma Hassona, a 25 -year -old Palestinian photojournalist who was killed the day after the documentary selection was announced in April.
“Why is it that cinema, a cultivation broth for socially compromised works, seems to be so indifferent to the horror of reality and oppression suffered by our sisters and brothers?” The letter read.
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Jake Coyle has covered the Cannes Film Festival since 2012. To prepare for this year, he practiced crepes to the race and interviewed the filmmakers on three continents who compete for the main honor of Cannes, La Palme d’Or.
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