Cannes, France – Cannes is a short trip from the Villa Seaside de Bono in Eze-Sur -mer. He bought it with the edge in 1993 and is considered grateful to a coast that, he says, gave him a “delayed adolescence.”
“I can tell you that I have slept in beaches near here,” says Bono with a smile. “I woke up in the sun.”
But that does not mean the Cannes Film Festival It is a particularly familiar experience for the U2 leader. It is here to release the Apple TV+ “Bonus: Stories of Surders” documentary, which captures your show on the stage of a single man. Before coming, Bono’s daughter, actor Eve Hewson, gave her some advice.
“She said: ‘Simply suppose and bring it,” Bono said in an interview in a hotel in front of Croisette. “What do I have to bring? Bring your gratitude to yourself that you are a musician and allow you to enter a festival that celebrates the actors and narrators of a different guy. I said: ‘Ok, I will try to bring it.'”
In addition, Cannes, he points out, was founded in World War II as an alternative to the then Venice Film Festival controlled by Mussolini. It was, he says, “designed to find fascists.”
Changes in geopolitical tectonics were a lot in bonus mind. Much of his activist life has spent fighting for help for Africa and fighting against HIV-AIDS. The president of the United States, Donald Trump, Usaid dismantling He has reversed much of that.
“What is irrational is to enjoy the disfigurement of these institutions of mercy,” said Bono.
“Bono: Rendicition Stories”, a Directed by Andrew Dominik The black and white film that begins to transmit on May 30, adapts the show of a single man who, in turn, comes from the Book 2022 of Bono, “Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story”.
In the film, Bono is moderate and reflective, sifting through the formative influence of his father, he triggers fame U2 and is considering how the ego and social work could be related. He calls him “the stories of a short rock star.” And as was the case on a recent sunny afternoon in Cannes, Bono makes a captivating deposit.
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Bonus: Well, that’s correct. Globalization went very well for the poor in the world. That and the increase in help levels brought one billion people of extreme poverty and half of child morals, notable jumps for the quality of life of human beings.
But it is also fair to say that certain communities really paid the price for that, here in Europe, in the United States. And I am not sure that these communities are accredited enough by the weathering storms that globalization brought. So I understand how we get to this place, but it does not mean that it is the right place to be.
Nationalism is not what we need. We grew in a very loaded atmosphere in Ireland. It makes you suspect nationalism and animal spirits that can be drummed. This is me talking about surrender, “surrender stories”, at a time when the world has never been closer to world war in my life. At first I think it seems absurd, a little ridiculous, now that has never stopped me in the past, but I think it is well ridiculous for these ideas. As surrender, nonviolence, peace.
Bonus: The new Pope seems like a Pope. That is a good start. I just saw the other day his first piece and he was talking about stop screaming, God could prefer whispers. I thought: “Oh, this could be interesting.” I am more a shouter myself. I come from punk rock. But I am learning to turn that cry into a whisper in this film to reach an intimacy.
Bonus: Well, the precision of humiliation: “You are a baritone that thinks it is a tenor,” is so comprehensive. I was going to call the work “the baritone who thinks he is a tenor.” He is in my mind because it is the reason why I sing.
It is a wound that will never close because after touching it on stage during all those nights, just turning left or the right, I always loved it, but I liked it a lot. He started making me laugh. There was a gift, as well as the voice, which left me. Would I forgive me for impersonating him at the Di San Carlo Theater, a sacred place for tenors, probably not? But here I am impersonating an actor, then.
Bonus: Mission Creep. I knew I had to write the book. The work was so that I did not have to travel the book in normal promotional activity, which I could actually have fun with it and interpret all the different characters of my life. I thought it was a lot of fun. Then I realized: Oh, there are parts of you that people don’t know. We do not go to U2 shows for belly laughs. But that is part of who I am, which is mischief and melancholy.
Then you end up doing a play with many cameras along the way. Andrew Dominik enters and he taught me something that I really didn’t understand, but my daughter does it: the camera really knows when you are lying. So, if you want to tell this story, you better prepare to take away the armor. You will feel naked in front of the entire school, but that is what is needed.
Bonus: Based on my behavior last week, the answer to that question is probably: it must strive more. The lack of progress of the pilgrim. I would say that I understand a little better where I come and that where I end it depends on how I deal with that.
I have been calling it the Hall of Mirrors, when you try to discover who you are and who is behind the face. Then you just see all these faces looking at you, and they are all true. The true star of this movie is my dad. I like more than I like because humor has become so important to me. It is not as if everything has had to be a belly laugh, but there is freedom. People like me, we can sing about freedom. It is much better to be.
Bonus: There is a Minister of Albania who said something that really stayed with me. She said: If you have the opportunity to wait, it is a moral duty because most people do not. So, yes, I feel that we will leave this. This is a terrifying moment.
I think that recognizing that we can lose everything we have won is sobering, but you can change the course. I only believe in people enough. I believe enough in Americans. I am an Irish person, I can’t tell people how to vote.
I can tell him that a million children who die because their life support systems were removed from the wall, with joy, that is not the America that I recognize or understand. You are in the first line of Europe here. The United States entered and saved the day. Ironically, Russia did so. More people died of Russia fighting the Nazis than everyone else. Now they step on their own sacred memories stepping on the Ukrainians who also died in the front line. I think part of that is that the story did not recognize it.
I think there is integrity into the Russian people. They need to change their leader, in my opinion. I think there is integrity into Americans. They will solve it. Who was the one who said: If you give the Americans the facts, they will eventually make the right decision. At this time, they are not obtaining the facts. Think about it: a 70% decrease in HIV-AIDS, led by Republicans, followed democratically. The greatest health intervention in the history of medicine to fight HIV-AIDS has been discarded. I was almost there. For a space traveler, it’s like getting to Mars and going to “Nah, we will return.” It is disconcerting for me.
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