Cannes 2025 - Day 1: The anger of Robert de Niro, the emotion of Mylène Farmer, the karaoke of Juliette Armanet

Cannes 2025 – Day 1: The anger of Robert de Niro, the emotion of Mylène Farmer, the karaoke of Juliette Armanet

ByLeila

Every day, the hot point live from the 78th Cannes Film Festival.

The star of the day: Robert de Niro

For the opening of its 78th edition, the Cannes Film Festival celebrated one of its greatest legends. Robert de Niro, actor in two golden palms (Driver taxi And Assignment), coming for the first time in 1973 for Mean Streetsand back 50 years later, with Killers of the Flower Moon. A sacred monster who was therefore entitled to his golden palm of honor, like Meryl Streep, his playing partner Travel at the end of helllast year.

We feared being entitled to Bob the Bougon. But no, the 81 -year -old actor looked delighted and proud to be there. Leonardo DiCaprio, his cinema son, introduced him by recalling how much he had been a model for him and the actors of his generation. And from Niro made him a big hug when arriving on stage, before showing a real emotion in front of the beautiful standing ovation of the great Lumière theater.

He then paid a vibrant tribute to Cannes, and took advantage of this global platform to tackle Donald Trump, that he has the quality of “Philistine President”, And his customs duties project on cinema:“As with a film, we cannot just sit and watch. We must act, and we must act now. Without violence, but with great passion and determination.»

The film of the day: Go on a day Amélie Bonnin

It was a great first this evening! Never in the history of Cannes, a first feature film was chosen to open the festival. An honor but also necessarily a pressure for Amélie Bonnin, placed in the nourished fire of the spotlights that she had not anticipated. Extending her short film Cesarized but by reversing the sexes of her characters, the filmmaker recounts the return to her native village, following the infarction of her father, a cook’s cook about to open his first gastro in Paris.

A magnificent portrait of a woman who discovers the need to confront the unsaid of the past (love, family) to move forward and reinvent themselves. A pop film jewel where, in the manner ofWe know the song From Resnais, popular songs (from Nougaro to Dalida via Stromae, K. Maro or obviously the 2 Be 3) extend the dialogues the characters but interpreted here by his actors.

A look full of empathy and tenderness without an ounce of cutery in the province. And a duo of actors whose complicity carries everything in its path: Bastien Bouillon in a light register which he touched little in his journey and Juliette Armanet, irresistible from start to finish in his first big role in the cinema. Cannes 2025 opened with an enchanted and enchanting film.

The guest of the day: Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino has not released again film since Once Upon a Time… in Hollywoodin competition in Cannes in 2019, but that does not prevent him from regularly returning to the Croisette. Two years ago, he presented his cinema book speculations at the fortnight of filmmakers. This year, he came to talk about George Sherman, a prolific director of Westerns at a slightly cult budget. A type of which Cliff Booth is surely a fan. The opportunity was too good not to ask QT to officially announce the opening of the festival. A remake of his famous “Long live cinema!” From 2004, welcome to relax the atmosphere after an emotional evening, and recall that Cannes is also a party for 7th art lovers.

The song of the day: “Confession” by Mylène Farmer

Stronger than the 2Be3 taken up by Juliette Armanet: The song of the day is “Confession”, new title of Mylène Farmer unveiled on the stage of the great Lumière de Cannes theater in tribute to David Lynch. An extract from Sailor and Lula (Palme d’Or 1990), a few piano notes, and the voice of Farmer in weightlessness … In the process, the fans of the singer explained to the moviegoers Lynchians that the singer of “disenchanted” and the director of Mulholland Drive were very close. In fact, “Confession”, with its hovering and ethereal atmosphere at the Julee Cruise, would not have mismatched on the roadhouse scene, the bar of Twin Peaks where Lynch’s musicians-lovers paraded. Mylène Farmer reminded us this evening that we are not quite finished to mourn the brilliant filmmaker who died last January. And that we still have lots of facets of his talent to discover. The proof: we write these lines by listening to the “David Lynch Remix” by “I give you up your love”, published on the album Remix XL by Mylène Farmer in 2024…

Today in Cannes

After the ceremony and the opening film, serious things start in Cannes, and the program is very strong. Two feature films in competition are presented this Wednesday: Sound of Falling of the German director Mascha Schilinski (he tells himself that it is a big piece) and Two prosecutors of the Ukrainian Sergei Loznitsa, who had marked the festival in 2021 with his documentary Babi Yar. Context.

But the real media event will of course be the presentation of the last Mission: ImpossibleHors-competition. First will also be at the Masterclass of Robert de Niroin the aftermath of his golden palm of honor, to hear him speak of his fabulous career and his detestation as Donald Trump.

The fifteen of filmmakers also starts this Wednesday with the highly anticipated Enzoon which Laurent Cantet worked before his death and that Robin Campillo (his co-author) finally achieved. Critics’ week opens with its side with Adam’s interest by Laurent Wandel (with Léa Drucker and Anamaria Vartolomei), a certain look with Promised the sky of Erige Sehiri and Acid with The Aventura by Sophie Letourneur.

Finally, Quentin Tarantino will present two Westerns by George Sherman as part of Cannes Classics, while John Woo fans can (re) see Ahead At the beach cinema.

Leila
Leila

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