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Director Arthur Harari discusses his fears, from childhood anxieties to the rise of the French far-right and its potential threat to cultural exceptions and production, as exemplified by his film L’Inconnue at Cannes.
The Cannes Film Festival featured premieres of films like Pedro Almodóvar's 'Bitter Christmas' and Andrey Zvyagintsev's 'Minotaur,' which received an 8-minute standing ovation. The event also saw actors making political statements against Trump and Putin, and a press screening evacuation due to a medical emergency.
Arthur Harari's new film, 'The Unknown,' starring Léa Seydoux, has premiered to a warm nine-minute standing ovation, despite reviews describing it as a bizarre and gratuitously serious body-swap psychodrama. The film is a contender for the Palme d'Or.