Rather, the local corridors talk about the fact that restaurants and bars can be a problem, where they are not as crowded as in other years, but their owners can now not complain about the lack of guests after the devastating nine-month closure.
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Over the weekend, there was news that, despite the completion of the vaccination, French actress Léa Seydoux, who in the past became famous in Cannes with the film Life of Adèle (Golden Palm 2013), is positive and this year the festival will present four films in which she plays. But if he will come, it is not clear.
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The current level of the main competition is still decent rather than great, great experiences, and therefore favorites, are still waiting. They could be brought by the creators Wes Anderson or Nanni Moretti.
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So far, the most exciting has been the novelty of the Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven (Basic Instinct, Star Infantry) Benedetto. The title heroine is a bigoted nun in a seventeenth-century convent who “works miracles” but is struck by the temptation of a homosexual relationship. The film is an exaggeration of criticism of the church’s hypocrisy, trade and falsity, but that exaggeration evoked more of Verhoeven’s apparently unwanted than intended intention in the hall.
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He turned down the Avatar
Actor, screenwriter and producer Matt Damon was one of the few great and stellar personalities of world cinema who came from overseas. He introduced a film by Tom McCarthy Stillwater, in which he plays a father who searches for the truth about the accusation of his daughter, who is in prison for murder, which she claims did not commit her.
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Damon was extremely accommodating to the audience, willingly handing out autographs, and when, like Jodie Foster before him, he met the visitors of the Rendez vous festival, he was honest and very kind.
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He recalled the highlights of his career and confessed his love for his work: “Even though I’ve experienced the festival four or five times, after a long closing, I feel like it’s the very first time. I love what I do. I wrote in my first school job: I want to be an actor. “
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Matt Damon v Cannes.
Photo: Reuters
Damon, who has made over a hundred films and starred with the best directors, became famous in 1997 with Good Will Hunting, in which he not only starred, but also co-wrote the screenplay for it with Ben Affleck. They got an Oscar for him.
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“It was a turning point in my life. I lived in the old one then the shabby apartment where Ben slept on the couch because he had just been kicked. And suddenly we found ourselves in front of Variety! We took the magazine with us everywhere we went and boasted: Look, it’s us on the cover, we have money, rent us your beautiful apartment! ”He said.
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Immediately after this triumph came Steven Spielberg’s five-scar war drama Save Private Ryan. “I remember feeling how much I still had to learn while filming. Steven shot it with ten cameras, the level of his work was incredible. And he also had extremely high demands on us, we had to put everything into it from the first moment, “Damon recalled.
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He had several opportunities to stand behind the camera as a director, but in the end it never happened. “For example, there was talk that I should direct A Place by the Sea. But then screenwriter Kenneth Lonergan wanted me to play it, that he would direct it himself. But when he was ready to shoot, I was blocked another two years ahead and I told him that the only person I could imagine in that role was Ben’s brother Casey Affleck, “Damon revealed.
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The guess was correct, Affleck received an Oscar for the lead role and Lonergan for the original script.
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And like almost every actor, Damon has unfulfilled wishes. “I had to reject the Avatar. James Cameron cared a lot about me, but I was working on post-production of Bourne’s ultimatum at the time. I was sorry, and I hope to work with him one day. And for free, “he added.
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