2025 Cannes Film Festival
If you follow the news of cinema a little bit, you are aware that the 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival At the moment, from May 13 to 24, 2025. Festival with an elitist reputation, giving pride of place to the films of authors and various experiments, it is nevertheless a festival which has recognized (sometimes a little late), a popular cinema.
And since we are on Artoyz.com, we will of course tell you about nesting between Toy Design and cinema, But only by the prism of the Cannes Film Festival.
Historical
In the beginning
We are in 1938. Shocked by the Hand of the German Nazi Party and the Italian fascist party on the selection of films at the Venice Mostra, Philippe Erlanger, Émile Vuillermoz and René Jeanne (all three members of the International Jury of the Mostra) offer Jean Zay and Albert Sarraut (all ministers) an international and politically independent film festival.
After several hesitations on the city chosen for this festival, it will finally be Cannes which will be chosen for a first edition in 1939. This edition will be canceled after the screening of a single film (Quasimodo by William Dieterle) due to the start of the Second World War.
The Palme d'Or
Until 1954, the ultimate Grail for the films in competition was the Grand Prix of the International Film Festival.
In 1955, under the leadership of Robert Favre Le Bret (general delegate of the festival), the famous Palm of gold From a drawing by Lucienne Lazon. If the Grand Prix will resurface between 1964 and 1974, it will then disappear forever in favor of the Palme d'Or, a price still topical in 2025
And today?
The festival will continue all these years with several striking developments and events.
Cancellation of the festival in 1968 following student events, the creation of "The Directors' Fortnight"In 1969 via the creation of"The gold camera"(Price for a first film) or the opening of the section"A certain look"In 1978, The Cannes Film Festival today celebrates its 85 years of existence to the delight of moviegoers around the world.
Juliette Binoche and Artoyz ... Really?
President of this 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, Juliette Binoche To a filmography as protean as it is impressive. Carax, Kiarostami, Godard, Kieślowski, Akerman or Cronenberg, she turned with the biggest directors.
But to be able to speak of figurines we are interested in a UFO of his filmography: Godzilla. Reboot of the famous Japanese saga, this Godzilla by Gareth Edwards Lays the first stone of Monsterverse from Warner Bros in 2016.
You will find on our site dozens of figurines bearing the image of this legendary Kaiju.
Godzilla
Let us also note a small appearance of Juliette Binoche in the remake of Ghost in the Shell from 2017. Let us also specify that Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, was in competition in Cannes in 2004 and that we had two works on arty.com dedicated to this saga and its creator Mamoru Oshii
Wes Anderson, the darling of the festival
In competition (and in opening film) with Kingdom moonrise in 2012, but also with The French Dispatch in 2021 and Asteroid City In 2023, Wes Anderson is a regular at the climb of the steps. Find several books on the unique universe of this great American filmmaker.
Wes Anderson
Intermission
We are now in the middle of this article. The perfect opportunity to offer you an intermission with a non-exhaustive list of golden palms that have marked the festival
When the storks pass (1958)
Symbol of the softening of the Soviet regime and staging monument, when the storks pass is undoubtedly a striking gold palm. Mikhaïl Kalatozov (director) and Sergei OUROUSEVSKI (CELECTOR) will repeat a few years later to offer a technically extraordinary film again: Soy Cuba.
M.A.S.H (1970)
In the very compartmentalized universe of film festivals, it is rare that a comedy is awarded a prize ... So one of the most prestigious prices of the seventh art, it is necessarily an event. Directed by Robert Altman (Gosford Park, Nashville), it is to this day the only pure comedy awarded with a golden palm.
Revelation Now (1979)
From napalm, the music of The Doors, a chaotic shoot, the suave voice of Martin Sheen, the madness of Marlon Brando, so many elements that make Apocalypse Now an unforgettable film. To add to the legend of the film, he obtained the Palme d'Or on a par with "The Drum" following numerous troubles between the members of the jury and the president of the festival. This will cause the wrath of Francoise Sagan, president of the jury, but also of Volker Schlöndorff. The latter will make an allusion to David against Goliath during his speech and will slide in the ear of Gilles Jacob "I only had a half-pale"
Paris, Texas (1984)
Already a winner of the International Critic Critique Prize in 1976 for "Over time", Wim Wenders still ensured its reputation in 1984 with its absolute masterpiece: Paris, Texas. Between a Harry Dean Stanton possessed and the iconic music of Ry Coder, it is a film that has lost none of its superb despite the weight of the years.
Under the Sun of Satan (1987)
If the film is not the best of its author, there remains an important moment of festival. Hue by a part of the public, Maurice Pialat will go on stage, declare "I will not fail to my reputation: I am especially happy, this evening, for all the cries and the whistles that you speak to me. And if you do not love me, I can tell you that I do not like you" before launching an arm of honor full of rage.
The piano lesson (1993)
Festival fairly criticized and criticized on its vision of parity, the Cannes Festival will offer for the first time a Palme d'Or to a director in 1993. The director is none other than Jane Campion and the film "La Lecon de Piano", a poisonous story of domination with this imposing musical instrument.
Pulp Fiction (1994)
After a reservoir Dogs, presented out of competition in 1992, Tarantino established himself as a major filmmaker in 1994 with Pulp Fiction. Winning the Palme d'Or under the leadership of Clint Eastwood, president of the jury, the film will be hooked by a spectator at the time of the awards ceremony. Quentin Tarantino, in all his finesse and elegance, will send him a big smile as well as a finger of honor.
Titanium (2021)
After Grave, Julia Ducournau stands out as one of the great figures of genre cinema. The result is this disputed, but uncompromising palm of gold that shows that French fantastic cinema is still important on a global scale.
George Lucas and late recognition
Present in Cannes for the third part of the prelogy Star Wars or for the fourth opus ofIndiana Jones, Georges Lucas However, has never received any prizes from this festival on the whole of his career. At least that was the case until 2024, the year he won a golden palm of honor for his entire career.
Star Wars
And so many others ...
From Matrix Reloaded presented out of competition in 2003 to the films of Bruce Lee rehabilitated during the "Cannes Classics" sessions, including the late David Lynch, the examples of great figures of cinema having inspired the world of Toy Design There is no shortage of. The easiest way to find your happiness is therefore to dive into our cinema collection which lists everything related to 7th art.
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