Back in pictures on the rise of the steps of May 19, 2023 at the 76th Cannes Film Festival, between Hollywood stars, Tunisian delegation and joyful reunions on the red carpet.
The climbs of the steps follow each other but are not alike at the 76th Cannes Film Festival, which is in full swing in the south of France since the opening of the fortnight on May 16.
If this Friday was inevitably a little less eventful than the well-attended presentation of Indiana Jones the day before, it was nevertheless marked by the presence on the red carpet of many stars, like the teams of The Zone of Interest, Omar la Strawberry and The Daughters of Olfa or Natalie Portman and Cate Blanchett.
Throwback to a few shots on this new day of stars…
The Zone of Interest team
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Ewa Puszczynska, Sandra Hüller, Christian Friedel and James Wilson surround director Jonathan Glazer, center, on the way to the Grand Théâtre Lumière. Presented in competition, The Zone of Interest offered festival-goers one of the first shocks of this 2023 edition, with the story of an SS officer living a quiet life with his family on the other side of a wall that separates them from Auschwitz. The horror of the camp is only evoked off-screen, thanks to a chilling work on the sound. The film emerges as one of the serious contenders for the Palme d’Or.
Cate Blanchett
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President of the Cannes Jury in 2018, Cate Blanchett is back on the Croisette in the Un Certain Regard selection with The New Boy. In front of the camera of her compatriot, the Australian director Warwick Thornton (Golden Camera at Cannes in 2009 for Samson and Delilah), she portrays a nun who takes in an Aboriginal orphan boy (the “new boy” of the title) in her monastery. ..
Liv Ullman
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Like Cate Blanchett, Liv Ullmann presided over the Cannes Film Festival. That was in 2001. Actress, screenwriter, director, author and essential activist, the Norwegian artist, inseparable from the cinema of Ingmar Bergman, is today at the center of a documentary which retraces her life and her impressive journey over nearly seven decades, presented as part of the Cannes Classics selection: Liv Ullmann – A Road Less Travelled. Did you say legend?
Olfa’s Daughters
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In two films (La Belle et la Meute, then The Man Who Sold His Skin), director and screenwriter Kaouther Ben Hania has established herself as one of the big names in contemporary Tunisian cinema. With The Olfa Girlsa documentary based on a new device presented in Competition, it follows the life of a mother whose life changes when her two eldest daughters disappear: they are then replaced by professional actresses…
Stephane Caillard
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At the Cannes Film Festival, being accredited is essential to access screenings. Except at the Cinéma de la Plage which offers the public the opportunity to attend a free session, outdoors and by the water, depending on the places available of course. The opportunity to (re)discover classics, but also to sometimes enjoy previews like Flo, a biopic dedicated to the navigator Florence Arthaud portrayed on the screen by an inhabited Stéphane Caillard. Accompanied by controversythe feature film is expected in cinemas in November.
A little dance at the top of the stairs
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And speaking of the atmosphere that accompanied the screening of Omar the Strawberryhere is a beautiful illustration with this little improvised dance at the top of the steps, to the applause of Reda Kateb, Benoît Magimel and the film crew.
Benoît Magimel & Reda Kateb
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The Midnight Sessions traditionally leave aside the very formal protocol of climbing the steps for a more festive atmosphere. This was the case last night with Omar the Strawberrya gangster comedy that brings together Benoit Magimel And Reda Kateb obviously very accomplices and delighted to be on the Croisette for this screening. Elias Belkeddar’s film, welcomed by numerous applause at Cannes, is expected in French theaters on May 24.
Natalie Portman
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A little taste of the Cannes Film Festival 2023 for Natalie Portman, who climbed the steps yesterday as a “simple” spectator, while waiting for the screening in Competition today of May December by Todd Haynes, where she is co-starring with Julianne Moore. A red carpet that should compete in glamor with that of Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, the big event in Cannes this Saturday.