Cannes 71: Solo: A Star Wars Story

ok. gone Solo, at leat not in 3D, ouf,
the sneak peak of this edition ans the third Star Wars |I cath here, but this one 10 days before the wide release. So...
too much action and mambo jumbo and overlong (2h15) but still there is some sparkling (pas beaucoup tho) and some plot in it-Kasdans provided (with a McGuffin) .
2 movies will follow if this makes OK BO and it will.
Chewbacca is the coolest (wwokie), Woody Harrelson looks as french con with a mustache and windy hair, the Falcon rocks, and Lando is OK. Alden Ehrenreich grows during the film and has a nice smile. Emilia Clarke si the woman, and that\s tricky :) a lot of English accents and a scarred Paul Bettany. And a Clint Howard cameo.
stuff looks a alot like Mad Max on parts, and as it was 80 % reshot by Ron Howard.
music by John Powell, wall to wall, has its moments when it comes to the themes of John Willliams. very noisy.

Cannes 71: The House That Jack Built

or The House That Lars built \;0
Lars Von Trier is back on the Croisette with The House That Jack Built -another outrageous, cynical, radical, sardonic flick.
Also meta & auto-referential.
and epic (2h35)
should ve been in Competion imo.
but Festival people hated it, or is it the LVT ban (7 years since Melancholia) and nazi touch ?
see here 
tho i guess Genre people will love it. As it's narcissistic and nihillistic  and grand guignol and revolting, parfois operatic, parfois punk.

For many years I’ve made films about good women, now I did a film about an evil man."
LVT

Matt Dillon is brilliant as Jack, career peak/best, and Bruno Ganz's voice can be heard from the dark for a long while until a moment when he appeaes himself. He is Verge aka Virgil, Jack's guide to Inferno (via the Wings of Desire by Wenders ?) and Matt Dillon really looks like Dante in the end, dressed in purple red. But he seeks not Baetrice but the essential pure art,l which of course he obtained by killing...he is an engineur who wants to be an architect and like Creasy:) his masterpice is death, or- deaths. many horrible deaths.
some references could be cultish-Non si sevizia un paperino ??? literally, 
some 2 pretentious-Gustave Dore, the Elysian fields, many paintings, art, liked the Sauternes analogy :) a lot of cultural holocaust anyway to be digested (or indigested moreso).
 sound design (bombastic) and soundtrack:
Sardonic Fame song by Bowie fills the air and space from time 2 time. But most importantly you'll never hear Hit the Road Jack the same way again ;)
(work in progress :)

Margot Kidder RIP

Lois Lane flew with Superman :(
Margot Kidder was 69.
Loved her when I was 8, saw her later in Brian De Palma's Sisters, loved the voice, the charme, the smile....bon voyage kiddo :(

Cannes 71: Lazzaro Felice & more

azi e ziua Presedintei, Cate Blanchett face 49 de ani. Somepeople will celebrate. Azi e si ziua a doi prieteni, nici cu ei nu celabram azi. E Spike Lee dupa o vesnicie din nou pe Crazeta, (asica 1991 cu Jungle Fever),  cu Blackkklansman. Spike e suparat si acuma ca l-a shuntat Wim Wenders in 1989 cu Do The Right Thing. Scrie la gazeta, zice la interviu.
Eu am vazut ieri revelatia festivalului, LAZZARO FELICE, si am fost felice. Am zis Palme d'Or, regie, scenariu -Alice Rohrwacher, toscana. interpretare -Adriano Tardiolo, debut. Locatie magica, Banoregio. Mi-a adus aminte un pic de Kaspar Hauser al lui Herzog, realism magic si poezie, halucinant, alegoia cu lupul (Ted-no CGI :), aplauze cum n-am vazut decit rar in Cannes, la proiectia oficiala, gen 15 minute-Agnes Varda le facea poze, Benigni ridea in spate-Nicoletta Braschi-nevasta-sa are un rol minunat in film,. Sergi Lopez emotionat, Alba  Rohrwacher-sora regiozarei (I am Love) actorii plingeau !
indiewire review here 
Cunoscut azi noapte trei din eroii filmului :)-behind the scenes si am povestit cu ei mult, Ahmed-key grip, Julien -boom si Fillipo, tehnicienii fara de care nu se pot face filme.-Lazzzaro facut pe film-
 ..a suivre...