Cannes (AFP)

The Thai Apichatpong Weerasethakul more and more contemplative, the French Bruno Dumont raised against the news channels, the Franco-Moroccan Nabil Ayouch fan of hip hop ... This marked the tenth day of the 74th Cannes Film Festival, Thursday.

In search of a second palm

Eleven years after winning the Palme d'Or for "Uncle Boonmee", Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul is back in Cannes in search of a second supreme award with "Memoria" conceived as a sensory journey on memory and loneliness.

The most contemplative film by this director on the border between cinema and contemporary art who, for the first time, shot in Colombia, far from his native country.

Bruno Dumont on the air

In competition with "France", the French director delivers a caricature of the continuous news channels, with Léa Seydoux in the main role.

Bruno Dumont obtained in 2019 a special mention from the jury "Un Certain Regard" for his biopic on Joan of Arc.

Nabil Ayouch's dream

Also in the running for the Palme d'Or, Franco-Moroccan filmmaker Nabil Ayouch is making "a child's dream" come true.

For the first time in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival, he defends "Haut et fort", immersed in the universe of a youth carried by hip-hop.

"It's as if I had been passing a bakery from a very young age with a beautiful chocolate eclair in the window to which I was not allowed, and there I was finally able to have it", he confided to AFP before coming to Cannes.

Advocacy for the "Queer Palm"

"We are not ugly ducklings! It is a prize like any other prize. I will find that even although it is integrated into the official ceremony", told AFP the filmmaker Nicolas Maury who chairs the jury of this LGBT prize created in 2010 and which is not on the official list of the Cannes Film Festival.

"This is a central price that does not deserve to be sidelined," added Nicolas Maury.

Awarded since 1987 as part of the Berlin Film Festival, the "Teddy Award", another LGBT prize, is officially recognized and included in the prize list.

Ecology without feeling guilty

The Cannes Film Festival is offering this year an unprecedented platform for films alerting to the ravages of the ecological crisis, with the ambition to challenge the viewer "without making them feel guilty".

Like "The Crusade" by French actor and director Louis Garrel who squarely decides to offer a light comedy in which he plays alongside his wife, the actress Laetitia Casta, the role of a father overwhelmed by the green commitment of their 13-year-old teenager.

Animation in force

Historically under-represented at Cannes, the animated film was back this year at the festival with notably the two Israeli masters Ari Folman, who became famous for "Waltz with Bachir", and the Japanese Mamoru Hosoda ("Miraï ma petite sister").

Also selected on the Croisette, a French investigative film on mountaineering offers a successful adaptation of a manga by Jiro Taniguchi which will be released this fall, like the other two.

Palmoscope

"Titane", the "trash" film by the French Julia Ducournau and "Un Héros" by the Iranian Asghar Farhadi did not upset the "palmoscope": 48 hours from the prize list, "Drive my car" by the Japanese Ryusuke Hamaguchi dominates always the predictions, ahead of "Annette" by Leos Carax and "Benedetta" by Paul Verhoeven.

Finnish Juho Kuosmanen's "Compartment 6" takes fourth place, according to a panel of international critics assembled by professional magazine Screen International.

The least rated films?

"La Fracture" by Catherine Corsini, "Titane" by Julia Ducournau ", Tre Piani" by Nani Moretti and "Flag Day" by Sean Penn.

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