festival firmly committed to showing films in cinemas in a world where streaming has really taken off? one of the most eagerly awaited films at cannes this year was crimes of the future from canadian film maker david cronenberg. it boasts an impressive cast viggo mortensen, lea seydoux and kristen stewart. emma jones reports. it s eight years since canadian david cronenberg competed at cannes. this director s go to theme has been the relationship between the body and mental disturbance. it is time to start seeding. it is time to listen. but with crimes of the future, cronenberg s back to the feel of one of his earlier movies, such as the fly. the fly got into the transmitter pod with me that first time when i was alone. are you afraid of all emotion?
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as i mentioned, annette was the opening night film here at cannes and in many ways it was an appropriate choice to open the festival. it had a glamorous french leading lady, the oscar winning marion cotillard, and it fulfilled the hollywood quotient by having an american actor, adam driver, as its leading man. then there was the director a man by his own admission very much influenced by the french new wave. having given you all that information, here is nicholas barber with his review of annette for talking movies. what a choice to open this year s cannes film festival, a surreal avant garde rock opera in which all the dialogue is set to music and the title character is a pinocchio like puppet. annette is certainly weird and sometimes wonderful.
you might be perceived as a privileged outsider, dropping in in problem areas of the world? putting myself in all these different countries around the world, i always, always remembered that it was my place to learn and to experience what these other young change makers were doing. for all the directors in this climate film section at cannes, there is an urgency that those who work within the world of cinema listen to their calls. if there were ever a time to beat a drum, this will be it. everything we see in popular culture today, for all of that to exist, we need a planet. the basic fundamental precursor to all these stories is a planet. scientists say the last time the planet was this hot, it was hit by a gigantic asteroid that wiped out almost all animal species from the face of the earth. for years, british directors had