The 74th edition of the Festival is underpinned by a sense of reuniting and coming together around this year’s selection – and a commitment to the environment and protecting our planet, too. Starting this year with several striking measures, the Festival de Cannes intends to roll out and organise the event in line with a pro-active environmental policy. In addition to the significant measures taken to cut back on waste (halving the volume of red carpet used and documentation printed, eradicating plastic bottles) and reduce carbon footprints (60% of the official fleet transitioned over to electronic cars, free shared transport), an…
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A gay couple asks one of their best friends to carry a baby for them, but complications get in the way, in the new film ‘The Surrogate.’ Josh (Chris Perfetti) has been best friends with Jess (Jasmine Batchelor) for the longest time, they are more like brother and sister. When Josh and his husband Aaron (Sullivan Jones) decide they want a baby they naturally ask Jess to carry it. She is thrilled to be asked and says yes right away, but when early tests show that the baby will be born with health complications it raises questions and concerns that…
A travel columnist from New York City goes to Tel Aviv to write about the city and sublets an apartment of a young good looking Israeli man but ends up drawn not just to Tel Aviv but to the young man himself. Michael (John Benjamin Hickey) has a partner back in NYC and both are grieving over the loss of a child they had hoped to raise as their own. Tomer (Niv Nissim) really needs money and is happy to sublet his apartment – he struggles to earn a living as a filmmaker and is still trying to figure out…
On July 7th, 2021, Balenciaga presents Couture for the first time since 1967, when founder Cristóbal Balenciaga left the fashion industry. Balenciaga Couture Winter 21 is ofcially the House’s 50th Couture collection—and artistic director Demna Gvasalia’s first. The collection is a mix of men’s and women’s made-to-measure pieces meticulously crafted using today’s most sophisticated techniques. Paying tribute to Balenciaga’s revered Couture history, garments architecturally transform the body and defer to the art of savoir-faire while taking an interest in modern dressing. Contemporary and signature silhouettes are reinterpreted by way of expert construction and state-of-the-art technology, meeting the highest standards of…
Painting is at the heart of the CHANEL Fall-Winter 2021/22 Haute Couture collection: “It was when I rediscovered these portraits of Gabrielle Chanel dressed up in black or white 1880sstyle dresses, that I immediately thought about tableaux,” explains Virginie Viard. “Works by Berthe Morisot, Marie Laurencin and Édouard Manet. There are impressionist-inspired dresses, skirts that look like paintings and a long white satin dress punctuated with black bows like Morisot’s…” It made perfect sense for this show, bursting with colours, to be held at the Palais Galliera, City of Paris Fashion Museum, a veritable institution of art and fashion, where…
From Milwaukee WI, Oliver trained as an architect before changing his medium of design to clothing. He launched AMONG THE PRIME in the summer of 2020. Architecture blends design with the engineering capabilities of form and function. Cars optimize function for power and form. What Oliver appreciates about the design of architecture spills over into his passion for cars: something built to last, appreciative of design and function, that delivers on an immediate emotional response. AMONG THE PRIME makes clothing with the same motto. It primes design, function and emotion. Spring/Summer 2022 Collection Garage Collection – Calatrava 993 Oliver Prime grew up with a particular affection for one building in his hometown, The Milwaukee Art Museum by Santiago Calatrava; a masterpiece in engineering, form and function. His love of Porsche knows…
Christian Dior was the designer of dreams. As soon as his House was founded in 1946, and consecrated by the revolution of the New Look, his visionary spirit never ceased to glorify women all over the world. “Fabric is the sole vehicle of our dreams (…). Fashion, in sum, comes from a dream, and dreaming is an escape,” he wrote. Season after season, this exceptional heritage is reinvented by the singular creative passion, force and modernity of the House’s Creative Directors who – from haute couture to perfumes –make the Dior magic live on with audacity, excellence of savoir-faire and…
After having given a lecture, successful architect Jeremy Angust is approached on his trip to Paris by a strange young woman who will not leave him alone. She asks for a ride to the airport, coincidentally where is he going as well. But she leaves her luggage on the street corner, causing Angust to miss his flight. This leave him and the young woman trapped in the airport lounge where he is unable to get rid of her. She’s a pest, keeps repeating where she’s from, and won’t leave Angust alone. Although the meeting at first seems to be by…
The Korean director will be back on the Croisette, after the triumph of Parasite in 2019, the latest Palme d’or to date and the first in the history of Korean cinema. Bong Joon Ho will be one of the special guests at the Opening Ceremony on July 6th and will present an exceptional “Rendez-vous with…” the next day in the Buñuel Theatre of the Palais des Festivals. Among other surprises in store for us at the Opening Ceremony, the director of Memories of Murder and Mother will declare the 74th Festival de Cannes open. Two years after the screening of Parasite In Competition in the Grand Théâtre Lumière, Bong…
Belle, the animation film by the Japanese director Mamoru Hosoda will be presented in world premiere during the 74th Festival de Cannes in the Cannes Premiere section. Following Wolf Children (2012), The Boy and the Beast (2015), and Mirai (2018), it is the first official Selection for Mamoru Hosoda. Belle, is the third animation film presented this year at the Festival after Ari Folman’s Where is Anne Frank and The Summit of the Gods by Patrick Imbert. Spearhead of a new wave of young animation film directors, Mamoru Hosoda takes the audience in his poetic and avant-garde universe in-between genres. Belle tells the story of Suzu, an insecure teenager living…