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In Pictures: Stars Dazzle on Day 6 of Cannes Film Festival
- The Cannes Film Festival features 22 films competing for best film, including Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme and Lynne Ramsay’s Die, My Love, with the competition concluding on Saturday.
- The event highlights the entry of Nigerian cinema for the first time with My Father’s Shadow, set during the pivotal 1993 coup, while Scarlett Johansson plans to present her directorial debut next Monday.
- Anderson’s film stars Benicio del Toro as tycoon Zsa-zsa Korda, loosely based on Anderson’s Lebanese father-in-law, and features a star-studded premiere attended by Edward Norton, Julianne Moore, and others.
- The Hollywood Reporter described The Phoenician Scheme as a moving and intricately constructed story, while Variety found it complex yet thoroughly entertaining. Additionally, Nigerian cultural advisor Prince Baba Agba noted that the film’s inclusion in the competition marks a significant milestone for the growth of Nigerian cinema.
- Nicole Kidman was honored with an award from Kering’s Women In Motion initiative and expressed concern over the persistently low representation of female directors in the film industry, highlighting ongoing gender inequality at Cannes.
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Benicio Del Toro: “Democracy Doesn’t Give It Away, You Have to Work and Take Care of It”
With a career dotted with strong characters, polished by violence and the disasters of life, when Wes Anderson first called Benicio del Toro (San Germán, 58), the Puerto Rican turned his heart. “It was very strange,” he recalls in Cannes about that first contact to collaborate in The French Chronicle (2021). “I am a big fan of Wes Anderson’s cinema, and yet I would never have expected the call. I work in a line of a cinema that brings testimony …
Wes Anderson's Star-Studded 'Phoenician Scheme' Cast Walks the Cannes Red Carpet
It was a star-studded affair on Sunday as the cast of Wes Anderson’s new film “The Phoenician Scheme” hit the Cannes red carpet ahead of the movie’s world premiere. As is customary for a new Wes Anderson film, this one has a stacked cast. Benicio del Toro and Mia Threapleton were onhand as the two leads of the film, but other attendees included supporting cast members Bill Murray, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jeffrey Wright, Ruper…
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Wes Anderson and his A-list cast dazzle at Cannes
US director Wes Anderson brought his latest A-list cast led by Benicio del Toro to the Cannes film festival on Sunday, ramping up the star power as the competition reaches the halfway mark.
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