Film festival opens amid French cinema

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.
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.
#Cannes #Cinema #MeToo
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[@francescahamilton6856]

Excellent Rendition. Thankyou.

Thank you Sara Verhagen mentioning LGBT films and that she is positive about it. The Nouvelle Vague was strictly heterosexual ( at least on the surface ) but in recent years many fine gay themed films have been made in France. I lived in France for six years and found the country homophobic and the gay marriage protests were horrific. No one else but Vergagen said anything about the necessity of sexuality in an LGBT context. Diversity is about that as well, and men are positively involved in this in a good way. In my opinion there should be a dialogue on this.

[@brianparkhurst1019]

How many other people are of a certain age, that # wasn't called hashtag. Makes me giggle every time I see it.

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Right!! Used to type this on my ol' manual typewriter.. I literally forgot what # was originally for.. Help!!!

[@aydaarel8414]

The Binoche episode was ridiculous and destabilizing for M.Streep

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At 32:08: movies are seriously expensive and their popcorn is neither natural nor is the butter.

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2:29 He's having her

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Drama queens will be drama queens.😊

[@manatee2500]

45 minutes of me2? Me Laugh.