The Cannes Film Festival has been around since 1946. You sindalso much younger than you could have thought on Tuesday evening, while you celebrated your 71 opening. In beginning, actor unddiesjährige master of ceremonies Edouard Baer sang a ballad reminiscent of medieval Troubadour poetry about how beautiful undaufregend it was to make a film: to Dream, to turn Undschließlich – as an apoosis of Filmmakers – to show him at festival Decannes. It was charming and elegant, but also a specific cultural arrogance. The festival celebrates film as art, and in France it is a größererSelbstverständlichkeit of national cultural heritage than elsewhere. This could be manschnöde on figures of moviegoers (more than 200 million last year re, about 120 million in Germany). Or because this year DasFestival five films by French directors UndRegisseuren in international competition for Palme d'or konkurrierenlässt. With a total of 20 films. In Cannes, France feels as a superpower.

A few years ago, such an attitude ManchemFranzosen still considered to be over-coming, as backward conservative. Ausgedientwie a Jacques Chirac at some point. He had, as far as bow of current event stretched, 1995 French atomic bombs Zündenlassen again, and threatened to 2006 with use of "non-conventional", alsonuklearer weapons when dispute over Iran's nuclear program threatened to escalate. Chirac reaped fierce criticism. The dispute was held in zähendiplomatischen negotiations. In 2010, France was once again a full member of NATO, a state among many or European undnordamerikanischen. Oh, national thinking seemed to be such a thing of passé. But President-in-law Jetztmuss himself again to take care of zerbröselndeinternationale agreements in person. It fits in with mood that Macron EineVorliebe is demonstrating for French writers and artists who are more of a conservative national canon, Alszur avant-garde.

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Meanwhile, on stage in Cannes, Juliette Armanetein sings song from film The Thomas Crown Affair from year 1968, which was translated into French for occasion from American. It is eineebenso yesterday as deeply melancholy way, which shaded murky thoughts nocheine nuance darker. Are you really in a place where DIEZUKUNFT of film is celebrated? Productions of new players on DemFilmmarkt such as Netflix or Amazon Studios have been boycotted. If you do not start in French cinemas, you will not be invited to competition. It cannot be about künstlerischeBedenken, because even such films can be of high quality cinema. The decisive factors are dieökonomischen interests of French distributors and cinema operators. Wiewidersinnig This limitation, it became clear when FestivalleiterThierry Frémaux Martin Scorsese asked for stage. He will be awarded this year for his services to film with DerCarrosse d'or, a prize for whole work. But he also finances his new movie The Irishman using Netflix. With WelcherBegründung, whispering dark thoughts, you will not be able to see it in Cannes?

What re was to see on first night of 71 film festival was premiere of film Everybody knows of Iranian RegisseursAsghar Farhadi. It is dramatischeGeschichte of a family in Spanish province. Laura returns with her two children from Argentina to native village, because a Ihrerdrei sisters marries. On wedding night a child disappears, an incident that leaves large family implode very slowly, but with precision and implacability such as old church clock of village. It goes around old and new love to property claims, to infidelity and loyalty.

Farhadiversteht again this time, as in Le Passé (2013), to identify Lügenund mysteries of a family as forces that it can control on DenAbgrund. The fascinating thing about Hadis films is that it does not need fast cuts or plucked actions to Spannungaufzubauen. He stages his actors (in main roles of Penélope Cruzand Javier Barden) just as precisely as a choreographer his dancers imspace, between doors and hallways, on stairs and at tables. Farhadis watching movies is like solving a big puzzle: every detail has its exact Platzund snaps perfectly into everything surrounding it. Then one recognizes at end: family is simply smallest unit in which whole world is reflected.

Everybody knows is an unusually dramatischerAuftakt for a film festival. But when you step out of LaueMainacht after credits, you feel lust that such films make on wide reproduction gram. "World class" will be re again this year, hates called. Oh, Cannes, your arrogance is indeed irresistible.

Date Of Update: 10 May 2018, 12:03