Author: France 24

David Cronenberg – or Dave Deprave, as he’s sometimes nicknamed – is the father of body horror. “The Shrouds” is the director’s seventh film in competition at Cannes. Each one has been controversial. His first Cannes movie in 1996, “Crash”, inspired mass walkouts at its premiere but ended up winning a Special Jury Prize. Cronenberg says this film could be his last, but he has threatened retirement in the past. The subject of the new film is death – inspired by his own grief at the loss of his wife. We hear from star Vincent Cassel, who plays a businessman overwhelmed with grief at…

Is it about justice or politics? In the same breath, the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court requesting arrest warrants against Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas’ Yahya Sinwar. Source link

Eva Longoria was among the stars who hit the 77th Cannes Film Festival red carpet. Speaking to FRANCE 24, she talks about her Cannes memories with L’Oréal and her “first time acting in Spanish” for the series “Land of Women”, set to premiere in June. Source link

Iran’s regime just lost a safe pair of hands. Yes, another hardliner is sure to replace Ebrahim Raisi – known to detractors as the butcher of Tehran for the thousands of dissidents he sent to the gallows as a state prosecutor. But the president’s sudden death in a helicopter crash may still change the equation – not so much for a presidential election slated by the constitution to be held in 50 days’ time, but in the behind-the-scenes jockeying to pick a successor to Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader who is 85 years old and frail. Raisi – himself a cleric…

Argentina’s Oscar-winning movie industry is battling for survival as President Javier Milei applies his “chainsaw” approach to budget cuts to the country’s cultural sector. At the Cannes Film Festival, where several movies from Argentina are on show, the country’s film workers are determined to get their message across, both on and off the screen.  Source link

Many people are sharing images on social media, claiming to show the moments before, during or after President Ebrahim Raisi’s fatal helicopter crash. Some even claim that the late Iranian president is still alive. We tell you more in this edition of Truth or Fake. Source link

The US startup Neuralink, which recently implanted one of its chips into the brain of a young quadriplegic man for the first time, has been forced to halt the trial. The company, co-founded by Elon Musk, encountered issues just a few weeks after the operation but has already received FDA approval to find a second test subject. FRANCE 24’s Julia Sieger tells us more. Source link

Described as her best big screen role in decades, Demi Moore talks about her debut in Cannes’ Official Selection as the co-star of “The Substance”. In this body horror picture with a feminist take, Moore stars alongside Margaret Qualley and Dennis Quaid. Moore plays a fading Hollywood star whose career is set to be axed by misogynists when she’s offered a secret new medical procedure. The movie is directed by French filmmaker Coralie Fargeat and had audience laughing, wincing and gasping in disbelief. Source link

An infected blood scandal in Britain was no accident but the fault of doctors and a succession of governments that led to 3,000 deaths and thousands more contracting hepatitis or HIV, a public inquiry reported on Monday. Source link

Tara Kangarlou, global affairs journalist, author of “The Heartbeat of Iran” and adjunct professor at Georgetown University speaks to FRANCE 24’s Mark Owen. She says that the Islamic regime in Iran is a system in which presidents and officials are replaceable. She adds that the deaths of President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian will not deter Iran from pursuing its goals in the region. Source link