Highly anticipated films, surprises, disappointments and discoveries: from May 14 to May 25, our special correspondents bring you the 77th Cannes International Film Festival. Spotlight in particular on the American star Demi Moore who marks her return to Cannes with The Substance.
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Time seems to have no hold on Demi Moore! The 61-year-old American actress, who experienced a journey through the desert after her successes in the 1990s Ghost Or Stripteasecomes to the fore in The Substance. She plays a television fitness presenter forced into retirement when she turns 50 and who is going to be tempted by a mysterious substance, the promise of seeing a younger double hatch, the best part of herself.
Aging, becoming uglier and transforming into a monster, Demi Moore took on an artistic challenge, but also a personal one: “ What’s interesting is that the younger, better version of the character repeats the same pattern as the original Matrix. She seeks validation from men. And when the two finally face each other, they fight to the death. This very raw experience, which required me to be vulnerable and expose myself physically and emotionally, allowed me to better accept myself as I am.», explains the actress.
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Limovov’s antibiotic
Transformation is also discussed in Limonov, the ballad, by Russian Kirill Serebrennikov. An antibiopic of the nonconformist punk poet who will become the leader of the National Bolshevik Party, mixing communism and the far right. The metamorphosis is what interested the director, even if he does not show the entire life of Eduard Limonov in the film, and obscures his participation in the Balkan wars.
“How can a poet become a warrior, who will even push for destruction? I have the impression that we sometimes live in the world imagined by Limonov. The Russian authorities undoubtedly read Limonov’s books, because he called for the restoration of the Soviet Union. And all his radicalism, which we took for madness, becomes reality. This is what we run away from because it is toxic and bloodthirsty», explains Kirill Serebrennikov, who has lived in Berlin for two years.
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As if in a mirror, the Danish director of Iranian origin Ali Abbasi presented yesterday The Apprentice(The apprentice): the youthful years of Donald Trump, and his transformation from heir of a real estate company to faithless tycoon through contact with lawyer Roy Cohn. We will prefer the metamorphoses of the animated characters of the Japanese studio Ghibli, honored with an honorary Palme d’Or, before discovering this Tuesday, May 21, the transformation of Chiara Mastroianni who pays tribute to her father, the great Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni inMarcello Mio.