1st though the cannes film festival is where the world's top stars and filmmakers get together to hobnob to make secret deals and to show off 1000000 euro gallons on the red carpet it's an exclusive 2 week party for insiders only luckily for us our film critic scott roxboro is there. there are 3 things you can always count on the. stars. more stars. and weather. well 2 of the 3 bad but the gray skies didn't dampen the enthusiasm of movie fans. in 15 years covering the cannes film festival this is about the coldest and wet as i've ever seen it but at least the bad weather is a good excuse to stay off the beach and goes he's a movie. night play you just see alison.

and. karen edgerton delivers an oscar worthy performance in the musical biopic rocket man the movie dips into the darker side of elton john's life but the sex and drugs take a back seat to the rock n roll. this year's can highlight the new film from the point here in chino i'm really honored to caprio as a faded t.v. cowboy brad pitt his stock man buddy it's official but it. has been a. struggle to adjust the 1960 s. hollywood as a darkness in the form of serial killers the manson family looms in the background . but film fans aren't just here for hollywood stars in can art house cinema is king of the. american master terence. malik marked a return to form with his slow burning drama about

a conscientious objector who defies the nazis. and 82 year old director and original social justice warrior ken loach kept up the fight with this attack on britain's economy. but just to have somebody on the phone with the gone. and all eyes to mine so i never caught up the. fun fun fun show is mine to. put as much business. but it wasn't all old white men a few films and can actually resembled the audience queuing to watch them you can has made a real effort this year to increase diversity to get more people of color and women on the screen and behind the cameras at this year's festival and it looks like it's paying off because we have one of the most diverse lineups in cannes history.

lucilla's in. victor hugo's french classic gets an update of what the agency bonded ghettoes. the very 1st female african director in cannes competition brought a fresh perspective to the migration crisis. good. luck the money can't. be everywhere for didn't remember the name of it no one. was needed to see black people on screen like shoots everywhere. with its mix of hollywood an art house old masters and new faces cannes future despite the weather looks bright. and you know what is film critic scott roxboro is just back from cannes scott let me just say i'm so. sorry that

those clouds ruins your time on the french riviera with all those movie stars thanks for that i really think i should harshit pay you something had to buy an umbrella why not go away i could not be more sorry for you ok but other than bad kim seems to have worked out for you so some great movies you got to party with elton john yeah yeah you saw the movie rocket man that was that was in can take you to party afterwards john came on stage with edge of new place in the movie and together they saw rocket man who sang it better. ok just amazing. as much younger guy who's actually out of her voice now they don't john does but i mean elton john's amazing show man i mean he just blew me away he could be up there just i don't croaking away that's so i'd still be fast oh my goodness there are a lot of people who are pretty jealous of you right now and i'm one of them i can't wait to see this movie rocket man now there's another big ticket movie that was at the festival open the festival a zombie comedy the dead don't die that looks pretty great is this one we should

all go out and see i wish it was it's got a great cast that bill murray told us when. adam driver but. one of my favorite directors of all time as got a fantastic concept is sort of a zombie comedy for the trump era. but sadly it's a bit too slow it's a bit too tame for my taste got some good jokes it's got some good ideas it's got iggy pop zombie but but sadly it doesn't really hold together it's not enough to make a good movie sadly this one's a floppy i'm really sorry to hear that now you mentioned diversity in your report so there are only 4 female directors in the running for the top prize what's up with that yeah i mean improvement on previous kansas had like 12 but obviously that's that's not enough especially given how good the female directed films were this year i think really interesting to see how the the female gaze can change perspective also chain. even

a very common genre of one that we're very used to seeing gives a different flip on and i saw that particular 2 thumbs that one can this year. french french film called portrait of a will of a lady on fire it's a rhotic period drama we see a lot of groups in the past but this is quite interesting the way she portrays the women in this i think is different you see from the male director i mean it's gives a certain intimacy but without being sexually exploitive and i think it gives the film a certain edge and definitely gives these women. a depth of character they probably wouldn't have real quickly what is your top pick from the cannes film festival this year topic there's a lot of great movies my favorite was a korean film parasite from june hole it's a story of a con man a young man who conses way into the rich family next door starts his life's twined with ayers things go very badly we'll tell you anything more except it's an amazing piece worthy of hitchcock a true masterpiece that's my favorite issue ok so

a parasite from korea that's one that's definition as it keeps our eyes out for scott i can't wait to go to the movies with you again always so much fun chatting with you thanks very much. and now here in europe more far right and nationalist politicians than ever before are expected to join the european parliament after this week's elections there are 28 countries in the european union and in order to get a sense of where they're heading we've been interviewing artists from around the continent today we're meeting some boats ho you do in hungary a country whose authoritarian leadership is openly anti e.u. . he has been part of the european union since 2004 but the prime minister viktor orban and his ruling feed us party the e.u. is the enemy it's not by accident there's no e.u. flag flying about hungary in parliament it's often been a source of contention m.p.'s from the far right party even threw one out the window the e.u.

flag also plays a role in director sub 0 tied to snuff film a pro european activist tries to hang one up the scene was inspired by an event in real life in heidi's film the protagonist a suddenly confronted by police. shooting the scene in hungary where it would have been impossible feel awkward but it was. we'd have been denied permission right from the start for that. subtle child to have responded by shooting his film in romania with drama students and film students. a low budget production for the international market. is no stranger. in 2010 his film biblio tech pascoe screened at the berlin international film festival.

i do doesn't want to be reliant on either state permits or state film funding he pays for his films himself and for good reason after a 24000 interview at the toronto international film festival in which i do spoke critically about hungary he received no more funding. everything is cleansed. now there's hardly any area which you could say is truly independent. certainly not in the artistic sector anymore. the government wants hungary's cultural institutions to strengthen the national identity or merely entertain the press and hungry has also become increasingly one sided. and those in the independent art scene find it difficult to secure a rehearsal or performance spaces sample chido is currently writing a new play which he will perform in this apartment the salon kugler is

a gallery and meeting place for artists a place for the counterculture to exchange ideas just like back in the communist era. who has found his niche yet more and more hungry and see no future for themselves in the country half a 1000000 have left during or bunts time in office you know it's going to make them sit and he will shouldn't view europe as the messiah who will save them there's also civil resistance and it's these initiatives that those in power fear most. the young momentum party wants to see an open democratic hungary that will work with the e.u. and it is gaining momentum day by day. the italian artist car of his paintings are as dramatic as his own life was 4 centuries ago an orphan who later got in survive raul's and kept the company of prostitutes out of rajo lived on the edge but he holds

a central place in art history is gritty realism and his extreme contrast of light and shade earned him legions of groupies artistic followers call the kind of edgy state we leave you now with his and their paintings at a new exhibition in munich and for more arts and culture you can visit our website d w dot com slash culture so you send.

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