we ll have the headlines and all the news for you at the top of the hour, straight after this programme. hello from the french riviera. i m tom brook and welcome to talking movies. in today s programme, highlights from one of the world s great movie events, the cannes film festival. coming up in the programme the excitement of cannes. the strong lineup of films and the wealth of famous names from international cinema on the red carpet. top movie stars on being in cannes. harrison ford returning as indiana jones, overwhelmed by the festival s adulation. it was, uh, indescribable. adored by his fans but not by all, the once mighty hollywood superstar johnny depp in cannes discussing with me, if somewhat uncomfortably, his comeback role. i mean, comeback is a weird thing because. he never left. no, i didn t go anywhere, you know what i mean? and martin scorsese is back on the riviera with a western crime drama that was a big hit. also how a book written by bianca stigter, the
describes the planned assault as an historic opportunity . a man arrested after a car crashed into the gates of downing street earlier this week, has been released while under investigation. now on bbc news. talking movies cannes film festival special. hello from the french riviera. i m tom brook and welcome to talking movies. in today s programme, highlights from one of the world s great movie events, the cannes film festival. coming up in the programme the excitement of cannes. the strong lineup of films and the wealth of famous names from international cinema on the red carpet. top movie stars on being in cannes. harrison ford returning as indiana jones, overwhelmed by the festival s adulation. it was, uh, indescribable. adored by his fans but not by all, the once mighty hollywood superstar johnny depp in cannes discussing with me, if somewhat uncomfortably, his comeback role. i mean, comeback is a weird thing because. he never left. no, i didn t go anywhere, you know
the once mighty hollywood superstar johnny depp in cannes discussing with me, if somewhat uncomfortably, his comeback role. i mean, comeback is a weird thing because. he never left. no, i didn t go anywhere, you know what i mean? and martin scorsese is back on the riviera with a western crime drama that was a big hit. also how a book written by bianca stigter, the dutch wife of british filmmaker steve mcqueen. it s great to see you. ..led to him making a powerful documentary connecting me very emotionally to my germanjewish family. hopefully the triumph of the film is that let us not forget, let us not forget. and in cannes this year, african cinema was celebrated more than it ever had been, and there were more women than ever before with films in competition. there remains much uncertainty in the global film industry but this year s festival delivered some strong magical cinema. all that and more in this special
cannes edition of talking movies. cheering and applause the big news at the start of the cannes film festival this year was thatjohnny depp was coming to town. he starred in the opening night film which is called jeanne du barry, it s a french language period drama in which he plays the king louis xv who gets involved or falls in love with a young social climber played by the franco algerian actor maiwenn who also directed the picture. talking movies got an interview withjohnny depp whose career has been derailed in recent times by high profile legal battles with his former wife amber heard involving domestic abuse allegations. johnny depp certainly created a lot of excitement with his presence in cannes, but the creative force behind this picture comes from maiwenn who was deeply fascinated by this story of a humble french woman who became the mistress of louis xv.
talking movies is kaleem aftab. so many hungry wolves. what makes this film so exciting is that not only does it have de niro in, it has leonardo dicaprio the two great muses of scorsese s directorial career. what we actually get is dicaprio as kind of a muted guy we re not sure what his motivation is, but he marries a very rich native american in osage county in the 1920s, and he has this uncle, played by de niro, called william hill, who s encouraging him to be conniving and we get the impression that the uncle wants the nephew to take all of his wife s money. and overall, it s a beautifulfilm. it really takes us through how native americans were notjust poor and mistreated, but could also be rich, but how white power worked, and scorsese really nails it.