Film festival opens amid French cinema #MeToo reckoning: Can Cannes move with the times?

Alessandro XENOS | François PICARD | Guillaume GOUGEON | Imen MELLAZ | Elisabeth SUBRIN | Solène EDOUARD | Sara VERHAGEN | Lahoucine GRIMICH

Edité par France 24 - 2024

Cannes’ not always been ahead of the curve. This year though, it’s premiering Godrèche’s short film about sexual violence and organizers picked as jury president Greta Gerwig, director of the smash feminist hit Barbie. How in synch with the times can a festival… and an industry be?

We’ll raise the curtain on a Cannes that’s always in search of the right balance between the socially relevant and good old fashion star power… a festival that will showcase the new film by Mohammad Rasoulof who had to flee Iran to present his new feature and what may be the last hurrah at 85 for two-time Golden Palm winner Francis Ford Coppola. What will this year’s festival say about the state of movies and the state of our world?

Produced by Alessandro Xenos, Guillaume Gougeon and Imen Mellaz. 

Note
  • It’s that place where once a year, high art and hustlers rub elbows, a place for icon worshipers and insurgents, old legends and young upstarts…

    Welcome to the French Riviera resort of Cannes and the 77th film festival that bears its name… the first one since French actress and director Judith Godrèche went back on her personal story – her filmmaker's mistress at age 14 – and sparked a MeToo reckoning in French cinema.
     

Langue
anglais
Date de publication
14/05/2024
Collection
The Debate
Contributeurs
Elisabeth SUBRIN Independent filmmaker; Professor at Temple University
Solène EDOUARD Talent Agent
Sara VERHAGEN Actress, Member of "association des acteurice"
Lahoucine GRIMICH Film Producer

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