2023-05-20 22:35:39
If many production houses essential in the defense of auteur cinema remain discreet, a new company has not gone unnoticed with a film that has caused a lot of talk even though it is only a short film presented out of competition. But it must be said that Strange Way of Life is a gay western, that it is signed Pedro Almodóvar, and that its co-producer, who launches with this impromptu into the marvelous world of the 7th art, is none other than the haute couture house Saint Laurent. This transition from fashion to cinema was initiated by its artistic director Anthony Vaccarello, who also designed the costumes for this little pop and queer film in which Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal play two cowboys who find themselves 25 years after having spent a torrid night… This is a sentence pronounced in the heartbreaking Brokeback Mountain by Ang Lee who inspired the Spanish filmmaker to create this short film: “What on earth are two men doing on a ranch?”.
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This Saturday, it is a platform which offered itself on the Croisette a nice publicity stunt. Coming to the rescue of the venerable Paramount studios, Apple TV allowed the great Martin Scorsese to complete the financing of the imposing and ambitious Killers of the Flower Movie. If the Cannes Film Festival would have liked the film to appear in competition, since the streaming company has decided to exploit it in theaters, a sine qua non condition to be in the running for the Palme d’Or, it is ultimately out of competition that this film-river of nearly 3h30 has been unveiled. But the event was sizeable, the director of Taxi Driverwhich won him the Palme d’or in 1976, having not presented a film at Cannes since After Hours in 1986.
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Long ovation in gala session, Killers of the Flower Moon is a great film in more ways than one. First of all, it brings together the two favorite New York actors, Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio. The confrontation between the two actors – who wonderfully embody bad guys – also culminates when “Bob” asks “Leo” to lean forward to spank him severely with a lath. Then, its long duration allows Scorsese to build a story that takes its time, advances in minor mode before gradually gaining momentum to finally profile itself as a great Shakespearian saga. For history, finally, is tragic and symptomatic of the way white settlers treated Native Americans.
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It takes place in Oklahoma in the 1920s. Thanks to the discovery of oil wells on their land, the Osages had then become richer than the Whites, before a wave of murders, but never qualified as such by the authorities. local communities before the FBI got involved and gradually decimated them. At the end of the film, it is Martin Scorsese who will appear in a small role to remind himself that we must not forget the tragedy in Osage County, and therefore more generally the Indian genocide. The film will be released in October, and it will be time to celebrate it as one of the great films of the year.
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