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Cannes Film Festival Opens With Storm Clouds, Meryl Streep and Messi the Dog
The Cannes Film Festival opened with rainy weather, an award for Meryl Streep and a lot of glamorous stars.
However, the movies that are shown in that slot tend to be forgettable, such as the Johnny Depp historical epic “Jeanne du Barry” or the Michel Hazanavicius zombie parody “Final Cut.” This year, the opening night offering was “The Second Act,” a comedy starring Léa Seydoux and Louis Garrel. The city has banned protests along the Croisette, Cannes’ central hub, and the festival’s immediate surroundings, but given the intensity of the demonstrations that are taking place in response to the situation in the Middle East, it will be difficult for the celebration of film to ignore the Israeli-Hamas conflict. Despite the increasingly troubled state of the world, the crowd of onlookers outside of the opening night ceremony was more subdued than the one that flanked the 2023 kick-off, which saw protests over the decision to feature “Jeanne du Barry” after Depp was accused of abuse by ex-wife Amber Heard.
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