From Ukrainian President Zelensky’s address on opening night to a vivid anti-war protest on the red carpet, the real world has punctured the fest bubble in stark and unsettling ways this year
flyover moment was either a delightful display of showmanship and a welcome moment of escape from these dreary, homebound pandemic years, or a frightening stunt, insensitive to the victims of the Russian invasion of Ukraine some 1,200 miles away.
If you’re drinking and laughing at beachside gatherings at Cannes this year, are you flipping the bird at Vladimir Putin and COVID, or are you just Sally Bowles in, insisting on keeping the party going even as the sound of boots outside the Kit Kat Club gets louder? , as an opportunity to call for the lifting of sanctions on Roman Abramovich, a Russian oligarch who finances his art house films. “These are not propaganda films,” Serebrennikov said of the movies Abramovich has funded. “Quite the contrary. Boycotting Russian culture strikes me as unbearable because Russian culture has always promoted human values.
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