Where has reality gone? When cinema looks at its navel: the Cannes Film Festival seen by Éric Neuhoff

Of course, we are panicking. Of course, we are outraged. The controversy rages on a tiny stretch of coastline. There’s really nothing wrong with it. The anti-Bolloré petitioners just have to look at the films in the selection. If we are to believe the images projected in their environment, unemployment is not for tomorrow. Apparently, crazy professions – Paul Valéry’s definition – are doing wonderfully.

Dans Parallel storiesIsabelle Huppert is a novelist. She doesn’t leave her house. The hero of Fatherland does the same job, but he has excuses: it’s Thomas Mann himself. Léa Seydoux of Gentle Monster has no choice but to be a pianist. Go to the factory, you don’t think about it. A sculptor is at the center of A few days in Nagi. Directors are scrutinized by Rodrigo Sorogoyen and Pedro Almodovar, as if Spain were ashamed of its bullfighters and its real estate developers.

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