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Cannes Film Festival 2021: Cinema and music return to Cannes
Updated On: 08 July, 2021 01:40 PM IST | New Delhi | PTI
Four special guests, jury chief Spike Lee, honorary Palme d`Or recipient Jodie Foster, Spanish director Pedro Almodovar and Korea`s Bong Joon-ho declared the festival open, each in their own language.
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Jodie Foster stands on stage with Doria Tillier, Bong Joon-Ho, Spike Lee, Maggie Gyllenhaal and other dignitaries after they officially declare open the 74th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes. Pic/AFP
The Cannes Film Festival, back to something akin to full throttle after a year`s hiatus, welcomed cinema luminaries back to the French Riviera on Tuesday evening as its 74th edition kicked off with the screening of Leox Carax`s "Annette". Four special guests, jury chief Spike Lee, honorary Palme d`Or recipient Jodie Foster, Spanish director Pedro Almodovar and Korea`s Bong Joon-ho declared the festival open, each in their own language. Foster asked the audience in the Theatre Grand Lumiere a rhetorical question: "It`s good to be up and about, isn`t it"
The answer was provided by Annette, a salve of sorts for wounds inflicted the world over by a rampaging pandemic. Frenchman Carax`s first English-language film, a flamboyant opera-rock musical starring two of the world`s most beloved stars Marion Cotillard and Adam Driver as a singer and a stand-up comedian respectively, was greeted with enthusiasm. The opposing adjectives that critics showered on "Annette" beautiful and baffling, magnificent and wild ¿ demonstrated that Carax, despite having forayed into a genre that is new to him, has lost none of his ability to surprise, provoke and divide. India has one film in the Cannes official selection this year Rahul Jain`s sophomore documentary "Invisible Demons", a part of the special Cinema for the Climate section. It is a deep dive into Delhi`s worsening struggle with air and water pollution. The parallel Director`s Fortnight, usually reserved for boundary-pushing genre films, includes Mumbai-based Payal Kapadia`s "A Night of Knowing Nothing".
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