Its paradises endure. Has he really disappeared? In the unpublished documentary Christophe … definitively, which was screened Wednesday evening on the Cannes beach, contemporary artists Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Ange Leccia followed the singer during his concerts. We see him working on the sound, arranging the lighting, cutting a garment, repeating a chord. A mix of simplicity in attitude and sophistication in work. Of old-fashionedness and poetry. Le Beau Bizarre liked to be in the light, if it was dim and glowing.
“Christophe was looking for coincidences,” says Leccia nicely of the musician’s expanding universe, which fed on film images, hotel smells, romantic encounters. “To be able to film it with my little camera, I had made myself very small, I had become invisible”, continues Leccia. There were few words exchanged, for fear of breaking the poetry, adds Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster who had met the interpreter for the first time in 2002 during an exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo.
First verdict. La Semaine de la critique rewarded La Jauria, by Colombian Andrés Ramirez Pulido. The story of a teenage criminal locked up in a rehabilitation center in the rainforest. “The five members each had their favorite, and not one was the same”, explains the president Ava Cohen in Le Monde about the jury chaired by the director Kaouther Ben Hania. Alma Viva, the first effective, lively and fine Franco-Portuguese film, will therefore be left empty-handed. Metsurin tarina received the Gan Foundation prize for dissemination, which will facilitate its arrival in French cinemas. They can shake. This Finnish film which does not lack humor is completely barred.
This 75th edition begins its descent. The festival-goers scrutinize the palaces less, pay attention to the sea again. But few of them go to the island of Saint-Honorat, a few miles away, where the monks of the Lérins abbey live. On this Thursday of the Ascension, the community received the oath of allegiance from the elected officials of the city, a tradition of 1448 exhumed in 1970. Too happy, a Cistercian brother, a bob on his head, immortalized the moment with his smartphone. On this island, which smells of incense and the perfume of pine trees, a monastic experience, ten years ago, offered celebrities the opportunity to come and immerse themselves in its silence during the Cannes Film Festival. An entire program.
