“THE’art Search for the freedom. Unites people, includes the diversity. That’s why we represent one threat for autocrats he is fascists of the world, but the creativity is priceless “: the scream of Robert De Niro in defense of the freedom and of the cinema It dominates the applause that the Grand Theater Lumiere pay to the absolute myth of the big screen rewarded with the Honor golden palm.
It is the opening of 78/O Cannes Film Festival in the sign ofemotion and of standing ovationfour, to the protagonists of an exceptional ceremony. The immense audience of the single room in the world no longer ends, after about three long minutes, to applaud the 81 -year -old actor, visibly excited, which as he says Leonardo DiCaprio who handed over to him the palm, “for an entire generation of actors, it was a model, our idol, an actor who redefined the cinemaa myth that has inspired us for his ability to immerse himself in the characters, a mirror in which to look at us, but also for those who like me are lucky enough to know and work there a person of a great inner strength and humanity ».
De Niro Remember his first time a Cannesin 1973 with Taxi driver and the last 50 years later with Killers of the Flower Moonagain of Scorsese and with Dicaprio to divide the scene. Hug Leonardo Like a father, both eyes in the eyes (it is a historical photo of this evening) and looks at the audience that bows to the legend. Has “the community of the cinema That Cannes he knew how to create »and then stops giving in toemotion To make the speech he had evidently prepared, evokes Trump “The ignorant president who” cut the funds for humanities, for higher education, and now announces customs duties on cinema Simply unacceptable ».
“We must act today, immediately, without violence, but with passionwith determination! The time has come, all those who love the freedom they must organize, protest, and the time has also come votewhen there are elections. At stake is the democracy and the defense of the freedom», He adds.
The opening of Cannes It is in the sign ofpolitical commitmentfrom the artistic militancy since the introduction of Laurent Laffette. The jury president Juliette binocheafter mentioning the drama of the hostages of 7 October, recalls the young Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassounaexterminated with the family in an Israeli bombing a Gaza In mid -April, the day after his film Put your soul on your hand and walk had been included in the selection of Cannes. “Fat should have been with us tonight, but theart Stay. It is the powerful testimony of our lives, of our dreams », he underlines Binoche By collecting the appeal of over 400 personalities of the cinema world, from Pedro Almodovar to Richard Gerewho asked Cannes to break the silence in front of the “genocide»A Gazapaying homage to the memory of Fatima Hassouna. “Changing the course,” he wishes Juliette binoche against “the immensity of this storm that we are experiencing of war, poverty, climate change, misogyny: The demons of our barbarism give us no respite ».
Also for her everyone standing in a crowded room of stars and reminiscent of the disappearance David Lynch with a musical performance of Mylane Farmer while the images of some films flowed. With the light -hearted and amused scream of Quentin Tarantino “The Cannes Film Festival It is openooo », the curtain rises on the 78/o Festival, while the screening of the film out of the opening competition Leave a Jour Of Amelie Bonnin It begins.