The 76th edition is just a few weeks away and the French town is already in full swing with the organization of one of the major events in international cinema, eagerly awaited by cinephiles and fashion enthusiasts, ready to comment on the protagonists’ outfits. A few days ago the films that will compete to win the coveted Palme d’Or were announced. In anticipation of premieres and “parades” on the red carpet, the program of the Cannes Film Festival 2023.
The program of the Cannes Film Festival
An event dedicated to innovation. To represent the fresco of cinema films from every corner of the world will compete and for the first time Mongolia will present one of its films. But the competition program is enriched by the presence of very big names, already accustomed to the red carpet of the festival: the presentation of the film is eagerly awaited Killers of the Flower Moon Of Martin Scorsese with Robert de Niro And Leonardo Dicaprio. Returns to compete for the Palme d’Or also Pedro Almodovar with the short film Strange Way of Life with Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke. Director Wes Anderson he stakes everything on a stellar cast and draws attention to his film Asteroid City with Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson And Margot Robbie. Back on stage Johnny Deep, after being in the eye of the storm for legal affairs with his wife Amber Heard. In the movie Jeanne Du Barry, plays the role of King Louis XV. To accompany him to Cannes, his daughter Lily-Rose, protagonist of the series The Idol by director Sam Levinson. Harrison Ford collects his Lifetime Achievement Award and plays Indiana Jones in the final chapter of the saga of James Mangold.
Italy lands in Cannes
The 76th edition of the festival is also a bit Italian. The jury has chosen three films that will represent our nation. On 20 April, one month before the start of the competition, as usual, the film by Nanni Moretti, The sun of the future. The story of a director, played by Moretti himself, and of the film he is shooting intertwine in an alternation of temporal planes. With a little bitterness and unfailing irony, the plot provides an opportunity to question the meaning of cinematographic work. Mark Bellocchio brings the life of Edgardo Mortara, a Jewish child who in 1858 was torn from his family and taken away from the Jewish ghetto of Bologna to be raised, according to the dictates of Christianity, in the custody of Pope Pius IX. The plot of Kidnapped takes its cue from the book by Daniele Scalise “The Mortara case”. The third Italian film in competition is directed by the director Alice Rohrwacher participating in the French film event for the third year in a row. The chimera is a film set in the 80s and tells of the involvement of an English archaeologist in the illegal trafficking of archaeological finds that came out of the excavations of the “tombaroli”.
A Palme d’Or… pink
Among the novelties of this edition of the French festival there is a large female participation. For the first time, the competition is presided over by a woman, Iris Knobloch, former director of Warner Media Europe. Italian and daughter of art, Clare Mastroianni she will be the godmother of the event. After obtaining the title of Best Actress in the 2019 edition of the festival for Room 212, the daughter of Marcello and Catherine Deneuve will return to Cannes to conduct the opening and closing ceremonies of the film festival. Female quotas will not be lacking even among the competitors: not only actresses, this year no less than six female directors will present their films in the competition and who knows if any of these will also be able to win the prestigious prize. The program of the Cannes Film Festival 2023 contains interesting previews of an event that promises to be grandiose and fascinating. «You could say “back to the origins”, I would rather say “back to the future””, these are the words of the president Iris Knobloch: between great returns and new proposals, the curiosity to find out who will deserve the Golden Palm.
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