Cannes 2025: Ari Aster, Harris Dickinson embrace bleakness

It was, France – At the Cannes Festival, the weather changes very quickly so that you can enter the scene in the sandals and go out in urgent need of rain and scarf shoes. On Friday, I ran to my room to seize a warmer shirt for a cloudy external party. I reviewed the window and added a jacket, then examined the window again and went to see the sun. By the time when it fell down Croisette (in something without sleeve), the cocktail watch has ended. C’est la vie.
The exchange of exchange is a beautiful parallel to the movie itself. At the end of a wonderful movie, you feel that the world has changed. And when the film is bad, the director suffers from a great shock. Before the first show, their driver was in the BMWS sponsored by the festival and now their friends are in their admiration for their shoes.
Harris Dickenson, the young British actor who convincingly controlled Nicole Kidman last year “Babygirl,” It seemed a stressful boy to present the premiere of the movie “Amplip”, for the first time in directing. A jacket and tiless with the sleeves of his shirt dress that lasts unbalanced, and said jokingly, “I am tense, but I hope you enjoy it – and if you don’t, tell us kindly.”
This barometer pressure is particularly intense at the Cannes Festival, but on the screen (so far, at least), the wind blows in one direction only: the south. Almost every movie has so far related to the personality of a storm – legal, moral, political, and psychological challenge – and stopped rocks.
Joaquin Phoenix, Left, and Pedro Pascal in “Eddington”.
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“Eddington”, Ari Aster’s Twisty and Thisly Western Western, located in New Mexico during the first hot and crazy summer of the epidemic. Thanks to the public’s despair, as it strikes us on our bruising memories of that continuous time when a new warning appeared every day, from the rules of social balance in the crown virus and the killing of George Floyd to rumors that rumors were working in the streets. with “Hereditary,” Aster made hip horror shock. Now, it has turned into the satire of our common trauma disorder.
Joaquin Phoenix, the Joe, is a soft -hearted and soft heart, refuses to delegate the mask to the mayor of Eddington ambitious (Pedro Pascal), on the pretext that Covid is not in their small rural city. Perhaps, may not – but it is clear that viral videos were given to him and anyone else’s brain. The wife of Joe (Emma Stone) and his mother (Derdere Ocunil) is installed on the conspiracies that involve everything from smuggling children to Titanic. Meanwhile, youth activists at Eddington, most of whom are eggs and perform, are dances that announce their passion for James Baldwin during the request of the only videos in the city (Michel Ward) to seize the knee. No one in “Eddington” talks about the truth. However, everyone believes in what they say.
Joe Phoenix watches Henry Fonda films and wears a symbolic white hat. However, it is compassionate in maintaining the system, and paste a spelling mark on his police car that reads: it is tampered with. After I lived until May 2020 and everything that has happened since then, we will not trust an ASTER anyway if it pretends that the savior can put things in its right quorum. However, there is no sympathy for the unhappy JOE, ignorant when it complains, “Do you really think that power is with the police?”
Well, one person in the movie was: “Domsier 137” from Dominique Mall, a single mother named Stéphanie (Lea Dicker), Who happens to be a policeman on herself. Once, investigating stéphanie drugs. Now, the evidence collects when its fellow officers are accused of misconduct. A certainty film inspired by a floor in the aftermath 2018 Paris demonstrationsThe central case of the film includes a group of secret officers who were alleged to shoot at a 20 -year -old protester in his head with a rubber bullet, which led to the destruction of the front of the boy’s skull.
MOLL made this type of procedural procedure that makes your rest. “I have no personal feelings,” Stephanie insists, even if her ex -husband and new girlfriend, as police officers accuse her of being a traitor. More precisely, she does not allow herself with any clear feelings because she wonders about the accused and the accused. It is impressive to watch the stéphanie stéphanie and equivalent to put the pieces and make the liars flow. But it is the last person in the movie to watch the big picture: No matter how good it is, you cannot be a hero.

Aleksandr kuznetsov in the movie “Two of the Public Prosecutors”.
(De Cannes)
Sergey LuznitaDrama during the era of Stalin, “two prosecutors”, her protagonist moved exactly on the same trip; It is obligated to ridicule the train on the path. Here, the fateful ideal is a modern law student (Alexander Kozntsov) who wants to meet a prisoner who prefers the government has disappeared. The voices that spoke boldly against the Soviet regime have long been silent. Now, the great cleansing is the imprisonment of even the Russians who swore that they love their leader.
Curricula and gloomy, the main image of the film is for the Cozntsov (that corresponds to that-but the purpose of it is a nose that appears to have been seized) is going in the endless entonymakers. It is polite and rots, but we all know that it does not reach anywhere. The film plays like a sour joke with clear punchline. I respected it well, but slow and inevitable, do not make large covers. He shook his strange head, who was late for a plane next to a nap.
Snoring was not a problem with “Sirât”, which is a wake -up nail that was widely awake in the middle of the night. The fourth movie was by the Spanish director born in French Oliver LuxeIt comes to the dirt shelves who gathered in an extension of Morocco for an amazing party: orange slopes, neon lights, plundering addiction, and dancers who are crushed in dust like living dead. The only bright presence is the father (Sergey Lopez) and his young son (Bruno Nunez) who hope to find the boy’s sister, a bohemian who swept into an uncompromising rhythm from this Bakania. But when the party is seized by the police, this broken family joins a convoy heading in the mysterious direction of another festival. The next station, disaster.

Image from the movie “Sirât”, directed by Oliver Lux.
(De Cannes)
The small, spoiled group looks like it is already living at the end of the world. Two of his representatives are missing the limbs, almost all of them are a disorganized tattoo. Since these trucks that were beaten through the desert, it is clear that “Sirât” believes that the MAX era has already begun. But the Latxi rhythm of death is bad, arbitrary and enjoyable. It is not convinced that we can form a society that is able to survive in this harsh world. At best, it will give us a chance of success. I must watch the movie again before I decide whether (A) comedy and (B) has anything deeper to say. But the second view will not be a problem. Even if “Sirât” proves half the empty instead of half full, watching another audience in the event of its shocks will be sweet.
Who finally brings us back to Harris Dickenson. His film “Anti -” is good. Great, even. The last time it was in Cannes, it was a pioneer in Robin Ostlund “Sad Triangle”, “ He is a realistic manager. It is praise for his behavior that I do not want him to leave his daily function yet.
“Hurchin” Lopes after a drug boy called Mike (Frank Dillane, Fantastic) who was asleep and slept in the streets of London for five years. Yes, Dickenson Decinsian went in the twenty -first century. Mike Pesters People for Catamine and Vodka and Change spare parts like Oliver Twist begging to porridge. But this is not a piece of compassion. A “hedgehog” is active and full of life: funny, small joys, stab wounds and prosperity from an optical drug.
Mike is given multiple opportunities to change his wealth. However, it is also stubbornly and we have spent the time of running in switching between being afraid for him and his fear. Dickenson, who also wrote the movie, wants to know not only how easy the social ladder slides but how a small step looks forward, even if his accent is ultimately more than Sisvian from self -help.
After the movie, I entered the spray, then to a café. The man was a monologue for his acquaintances about changing his career from Tech to a movie, and this is my favorite listening place.
“I was rich and successful, but I had to search for something more permissible,” explained, challenging the other person plate of Charcuterie. He said that it is now a break, and he divorced. But somehow, he seemed satisfied. I have sent an email to Quentin Tarantino. Perhaps the next Cannes festival would be the person who gets a driver. The wind may start blowing its way. A really wonderful movie can change your life.