Cannes 2022 summons the undead to prove cinema is alive and kicking
France24 says the 75th Cannes Film Festival kicked off on Tuesday with a zombie-themed tribute to film-making by French director Michel Hazanavicius as the movie world returned to the Riviera hoping to beathe new life into an industry crippled by the pandemic. The curtain-raiser was preceded by a video address from Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky, who called for “a new Chaplin” to confront the world’s dictators.
When the Cannes Film Festival last held a full-scale edition in the spring of 2019, the world’s premier film showcase opened with a droll but dire warning of impending doom: a man-made apocalypse of zombies stirred from their slumber by polar fracking.
By the end of that year, the apocalypse had duly struck – not in the shape of Jim Jarmusch’s amiable zombie hordes, but in the more sinister form of a deadly virus that would soon sweep across the globe, killing an estimated 6.2 million people (to date), shutting down entire economies, and putting a lid on social and cultural life across the globe.
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