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
selection at cannes certainly feels like a seismic moment for the festival, a moment where perspectives in world cinema are changing, and the event certainly doesn t feel as eurocentric as it has done before. well, that brings our look back at some of the highlights of this year s cannes film festival to a close. we hope you ve enjoyed the program. please remember you can contact us online and reach us on twitter. from me, tom brook, the rest of the talking movies team, here on the french riviera, it s goodbye.
this is my grandfather, werner friedrich brook, a germanjew in breslau. when hitler came to power, he was forced into retirement. he lost hisjob, his home, his status. a broken man, he went to the netherlands, as did many other germanjews. most of them perished, while my grandfather and his family found safe haven in britain. i cried the whole time i watched 0ccupied city, thinking of the nightmare my family avoided. the film did what powerful art can do unlock emotions we don t know we have. there were a lot of tears. there we are so resilient, human beings, and whatever is in front of us, we keep on going. do we have a choice? not really. because we don t know what is around the corner. and i think that s that hopefully is the triumph of the film, that let s not forget, let s not forget. real world events have a habit of changing the way in which a film is experienced at the cannes film festival. it happened this year with the first
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.
face, dressed, as indiana jones, every expression, every lighting style, so it gave us an incredible leg up in terms of how to render him, youngify him, if you will. and on top of that, harrison s not a pound over the weight he was when he was 35 years old. the studio also hosted a lavish party for the film, hearing back to pre pandemic days. yet despite the buzz around the premier and the franchise s billion dollar contribution to the industry, with mixed reviews, the film s unlikely to repeat for hollywood in business what top gun maverick achieved from the moment it arrived on the cannes croisette last year. in 1976, the great american director martin scorsese came to the cannes film festival with the new york city set film taxi driver with robert de niro and a very young jodie foster. it went on to become a huge movie classic. well, 47 years later, this year, martin scorsese returned to the cannes film festival with one