The seventy-seventh edition of the Cannes festival inaugurated with the divine Meryl Streepthe godmother, the French actress Camille Cottinfamous abroad for his role in the series Call my agent! and for the film with Matt Damon, Stillwater and a tribute to the president Greta Gerwig on the notes of David Bowie from one of his first films Frances Ha.
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The opening is entrusted to the surreal comedy of Quentin Dupieux Le deuxième act, reflection on cinema, on the border between reality and fiction, on artificial intelligence with Léa Seydoux, Louis Garrell, Vincent Lindon.
8.01pm
Meryl Streep: “I’m back here after 35 years, thanks to the directors and spectators who haven’t gotten tired of me”
“Juliette Binoche, la belle Binoche – Meryl Streep thanked her French colleague – You don’t know what joy it was when I learned that you would be the one to introduce me: I went crazy looking at your artistic talent, your Coco Chanel and last Friday I saw The Taste of things I went to bed crying so much when you died, you are such a generous woman, I was captivated by how you acted in that film.” Then she remembers: “35 years of absence, I am grateful to be here, this award is a great honor, unique in the world of cinema. There are two people with me that I would like to remember, my agent – Dix pour cent he jokes to Camille Cottin – and the master hairdresser who debuted in an Ingmar Bergman film and is responsible for the look of my characters for the last fifty years.” Then the actress concludes: “When I came to Cannes (for A cry in the night, ed.), I was 40 years old and already a mother of three children, I believed that my career was over, it was a possible prediction for the time. The reason I’m here is thanks to the filmmakers I’ve worked with, including president Greta Gerwig, and then to you cinephiles, who haven’t gotten tired of me. My mother was right about everything, she told me ‘you’ll see Meryl everything goes by so quickly’ and it did. Everything passes quickly except my speeches which are too long.”
7.50pm
Standing ovation for Meryl Streep
Very long standing ovation for Meryl Streep, 75 years old in June, who arrives in a long white dress – very elegant – she spreads her arms and shakes her head and makes the gesture of leaving, then kisses and hugs Juliette Binoche who came to give her the Palme d’Or: “We love you, you are an international treasure, you have changed the way we look at women in cinema.” Then she starts dancing…
7.39pm
The tribute to Greta Gerwig on the notes of David Bowie
“Dear Greta, you are an honor for the festival, so we have a small gift for you” said Camille Cottin introducing a clip showing Frances Ah running from Noah Baumbach’s film in which Greta Gerwig was the protagonist, cinema images which turn into a happening in the Palais con Modern Love by David Bowie sung between the seats of the large hall, then the singer Zaho de Sagazan takes off her shoes and goes on stage while the moved president sings and dances on the chair.
7.25pm
Camille Cottin in the brilliant monologue between jokes about Metoo and poetry: “Cinema is dialogue and amazement”
Camille Cottingodmother of the opening night, opens the festival with a monologue that is intense and brilliant.
“Dear friends, it is an honor and an immense joy to welcome you to this legendary palace. You are about to enter a parallel world where space and time, but also health, are becoming fluid concepts, where day and night become confused. However, we remind you that late-night appointments in the producers’ rooms are no longer part of the Cannes law custom after the arrival of MeToo. Ours is a particular world where some hairstyles take more than the time to make a short film, we watch films all day and discuss them all night, no one speaks the same language but everyone understands each other.” You quote Agnes Varda and speak of cinema as “a world of dialogue, culture, amazement, now that the world disturbs us, that deep fractures divide countries, that the earth burns, every year we come to take a picture of our humanity”.
7.18pm
Léa Seydoux in silver with the team of the inauguration film
With the arrival of the cast of the inaugural film, the surreal comedy Le deuxième act Of Quentin Dupieux the red carpet of the opening night of the seventieth edition of the Cannes Film Festival concludes. Léa Seydoux in silver dress with his colleagues from Louis Garrel to Vincent Lindon.
7.06pm
Favino and the other members of the jury, with president Greta Gerwig
The entire jury did the Montée de marche dancing on the stairs. With Pierfrancesco Favino the president is here Greta Gerwigbehind the global phenomenon of Barbieour Pierfrancesco Favino, the Turkish screenwriter and photographer Ebru Ceylanthe American actress Lily Gladstone who last year here in Cannes began her journey with Martin Scorsese’s film that would take her to Oscar night, the French actress Eva Greenthe Lebanese director Nadine Labaki (Caramel)the Spanish director and producer Juan Antonio Bayonathe Japanese director Palme d’Or Kore-eda Hirokazu and the actor and producer Omar Sy (Lupine).
Greta Gerwig, from ‘Barbie’ at the Cannes Film Festival: “We jurors immediately found ourselves in tune, it was enough to take out photos of our dogs…”
by our correspondent Arianna Finos
May 14, 2024
6.08pm
First on the red carpet is the dog from Anatomy of a Fall
The Cannes festival restarts where it ended last year. The first to make the Montée de Marche was the dog Messi, protagonist of last year’s Palme d’Or film by French director Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall.
The red carpet report cards
