At the Grand Théâtre Lumière, a standing ovation awaited her at the opening ceremony, which accompanied her to the stage after being addressed by Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar “Dear Jodie Foster, I have the honor to invite you …”.
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There she took the Golden Flame from his hands and thanked everyone, from the festival director to the audience and her partner Alexandra, with a bright smile. In a short speech, she expressed the hope that after a year’s break, everyone would meet again at the festival, which is her love.
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She came to him for the first time as a fourteen-year-old with the film Taxi Driver, in which she played alongside Robert De Niro under the direction of Martin Scorsese. And this year, the day after the gala dinner, she met the audience on her favorite Rendez vous, and with a laugh she remembered her premiere here and the event that made her cry at the time.
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Jodie Foster is at home in Cannes.
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“I took my little Yorkshire Terrier Napoleon on a journey I had no idea what it would bring me. When we arrived at the airport, he suddenly fell to the ground and was dead. Can you imagine what it was like for a fourteen-year-old girl to lose a beloved pet like this! I cried, she was desperate, I didn’t want to go anywhere. And in that condition, I flew to Cannes. Believe it or not, I didn’t care at all, “she said.
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“And then it came: the red carpet, a great success, the Golden Palm! I experienced the festival then in such mixed feelings as never before or since. Enthusiasm, joy and sadness every day. I grew up with the Cannes festival, “added the laureate of two Oscars, who has since screened seven of her films on the Riviera.
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In Cannes, he uses only excellent French, which, of course, won the hearts of all Frenchmen from the very first moments. After all, she has already filmed twice in French, in Claude Chabrol’s film The Blood of the Others and in Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Too Long Engagement.
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“I would like to star in a French film again, but I didn’t get an offer,” she called with a “detour” to a French filmmaker.
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