Cannes 2025 – Day 10: Renate Reinsve grandiose, the prodigy Saeed Roustaee, the Upercut of Nadav Lapid
Every day, the hot point live from the 78th Cannes Film Festival.
The film of the day: Woman and Child from Saeed Roustaee
After Tehran’s law of Leïla and her brotherswhich was already in competition in Cannes in 2022, Saeed Roustaee continues to dissect Iranian society with Womand and Child. A pure family drama in line withA separation by Asghar Farhadi, and a perfect complement to the film of his compatriot Jafar Panahi, A simple accidentalso in the race for the Palme d’Or this year.
40 -year -old widowed nurse, Mahnaz (Parinaz Izadyar, sublime) raises her children alone, with her mother and sister. She is about to remarry with her boyfriend Hamid, but a drama occurs and everything collapses. Betrayed by her relatives, she fights for justice in this crumbling country under the weight of patriarchy and archaic rules. In Iran of the Mullahs, by collecting some testimonies (from the neighbor, the colleague, the stepfather, etc.) you can make your job lose to one, the guard of his daughter to the other.
The multiplication of twists and turns sometimes borders on the teenovela, but thanks to the impeccable interpretation of the actors (whose always just Payman Maadi and the Revelation Soha Niaasti, in the role of the heroin sister) and an inspired staging, it still works. And Woman and Child We keep us going to its heartbreaking final. Will the 35-year-old prodigy Roustaee this time be rewarded at the charts?
The uppercut of the day: Yes De Nadav Lapid
This afternoon at the fifteen of filmmakers, there was tension in the air. The vigils had obviously received the order to redouble vigilance in the control of the bags. We were planning Yes From the Israeli Nadav Lapid, a self -scrutiny and tormented on the violence of his country since the October 7 attacks. The filmmaker (Synonyms, Ahed’s knee…) known for his positions against the right -handed politics of his country, could not remain silent.
Yes tells the journey of a musician-ambient committed to write a propaganda anthem to the glory of Tsahal. In an feverish and confused country since the attacks of Hamas, our man is torn between his desire for social ascent and his artistic and political convictions. The staging operates swerry, ruptures of tone, fever climbs, leaving no respite to a (bad) conscience felt physically by the hero and the spectators. Radicality rowdy but never touting, Lapid seems to speak in the first person through the contradictions of his protagonist.
After 2:30 am of that diet, electricity in the room was palpable. Some thorough whistles were quickly covered by applause. Actor Ariel Bronz thought he was authorized to make Nazi greetings against hostile spectators without this violent gesture provoking special reactions. It is time that it all ends.
The video of the day: Cédric Klapisch for The arrival of the future
On the sidelines of the Palme d’Or race, the event of the day yesterday in Cannes, it was also the projection of the new Cédric Klapisch, The arrival of the futureexcluding competition. The director of The Spanish Aubergewhich had never presented a film on the Croisette (!), told us about the influence of the new wave on his work, and the work of reconstruction of the 19th century Paris which he carried out for his account in double temporality which speaks of inheritance.
The star of the day: Renate Reinsve in Sentimental value
After his explosion on the Croisette in 2021 with the sumptuous Julie (in 12 chapters)the Norwegian Renate Reinsve makes her comeback with Joachim Trier with Sentimental valuefilm in competition on two sisters who see their father, director (it is important), to return to their lives after many years of absence. A nice, resolutely Bergmanian, fragile and theoretical object on cinema as the only means of intra -family communication. Reinsve is magnificent in a Dowtempo partition, while fleeing and small murderous phrases. A girl next door Shattered by the disinterest of his Papounet in his place, but proudly sure of his power of attraction. Even she Fanning, also in the casting, cannot compete. No doubt, a star is reborn in Cannes.
The interview of the day: Cannes seen by John C. Reilly
Everyone loves John C. Reilly, actor of some legendary comedies from the 2000s (Brothers in spite of themselves, Walk Hard…) And old traveling companion of Paul Thomas Anderson. The actor presents to a certain look Head or cross ? (Pile your Face ?), An Italian western where he embodies Buffalo Bill against Nadia Tereszkiewicz. The opportunity for him to tell us about his privileged relationship to a festival where he now has his towel circle.
“How did I do to become a ‘regular’ Cannois? I choose the right projects, that’s how! The first person with whom I came to Cannes was Paul Thomas Anderson, for his first film (Sydney, presented to a certain look in 1996). Me, it was already my 13th film, which means that I had still made 12 non-selected films in Cannes, ah ah! We were still kids with Paul, we each had only one suit worthy of the name to put us. Then there were other films over time, we need to talk about Kevin, Tale of Tales, The Lobster … My birthday is May 24, so when I’m in Cannes, I’m blowing candles! I celebrated my 50th birthday here in 2015, and I’m going to celebrate my 60th birthday this year … It really has become a marker of my life.
The strongest was the presidency of the jury a certain look two years ago. When I was offered this responsibility, I was a little depressed with regard to cinema, I told myself that this niche thing had become, that streaming had won … Then I came, not to talk about me or make myself take pictures, no: to see 19 films in ten days, films from all over the world, made by people for whom the cinema is essential. And it totally re -inflated me! When I got back to the United States, I was happy that the series I played (Winning Time) ends, because Cannes had reminded me that my medium, my means of expression is really cinema. You know, when things go well here, it feels like you are on the roof of the world. There is no cooler place. I am not talking that for me: I am sure that Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio or Tom Cruise feel exactly the same thing.”
Today in Cannes
We go to the conversation with Thomas Cailley at the fortnight, we look carefully at the 4K restored version of Barry Lyndon in Cannes Classics, then we go back in the hard The Mastermind by Kelly Reichardt and Young people Dardenne brothers in competition. Small break, then 13 days 13 nights from Martin Bourboulon outside the complé and Honey Don’t from Ethan Cohen in midnight session. Nice program for a penultimate day, right?
