Cannes at Home: Day 2 - Breakdowns and rebellions

by Cláudio Alves

The first day of Main Competition screenings saw the premiere of a few film by Kirill Serebrennikov, and a collaboration from Felix van Groeningen, and Charlotte Vandermeersch.  Tchaikovsky's Wife (read Elisa's review) marks the third time Serebrennikov competes for the Palme d'Or, but the first time he's been at the Croisette. In the last few years, he's forbidden from exiting Russia after being convicted of deviating state funds for the Gogol Center in Moscow, a subterfuge for punishing an artist who's consistently spoken against Putin's regime. The other screening was less politically charged in comparison. The Eight Mountains (read Elisa's review) is the first directorial collaboration of Groeningen and Vandermeersch, though they previously wrote the screenplay for Groeningen's The Broken Circle Breakdown. Moreover, it's Vandermeersch's debut as a director and is the first of five competition titles directed or co-directed by women – a record in Cannes history.

For the Cannes at Home miniseries, today's films are The Broken Circle Breakdown and Serebrennikov's Leto...

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Cannes Gowns, Round 3

You can still vote on Round 1 and Round 2 if you missed them

Here's the final round of gowns from the opening festivities. Perhaps at the end of the fest, a showdown between each rounds winners? There were more gowns of course but we picked the 12 best or most interesting ignoring the many models who show since festival red carpets really should be about the actresses, don'cha think?

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Cannes at Home: Day 1 - 'One Cut of the Dead'

by Cláudio Alves

Last year, I had a lot of fun with the Cannes at Home project. It was meant as a way to dispel FOMO by running a homebound parallel companion to the most prestigious film festival in the world. Since we couldn't screen the new titles on the Croisette, we discussed their directors' past works. In other words: I'm back on my bullshit this year, and you're invited to play along. While this miniseries will focus on the Main Competition and its auteurs, the festivities didn't start with any competing titles. Instead, Michel Hazanavicius' latest film, Final Cut, opened the festival. It's the French remake of a Japanese zombie comedy, and you can read about it in Elisa Giudici's first Cannes Diary.

It only seems appropriate to kick off this parallel project with some thoughts on the original film – Shinichiro Ueda's One Cut of the Dead…

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Cannes Gowns, Round 2

Round 1 if you missed it

The stars came out for the Opening Ceremony, Opening Film (Coupez! - read Elisa's review) and an Out of Competition Top Gun Maverick premiere.

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Cannes Gowns, Round 1

We'll do this in quartet rounds, to bring you beauty on the regular, and so as not to overwhelm ourselves.

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