Although the great Hollywood stars walk the red carpet of the Cannes Film Festival, so do some activists and even the actors themselves who take advantage of the fact that all the camera lenses point at them to express some disagreements.
Many will still remember in July 2021, the image of Colombian actors Juan Pablo Urrego and Elkin Diazprotagonists of the film ‘Memory’, who accompanied by the British actress, Oscar winner, Tilda Swinton and the Thai director Joe Weerasethakul, held a flag with the national tricolor countermarked with the message ‘SOS’, an image that went around the world. According to the artists the message was due to the social crisis and the wave of violence facing the country.
This year several situations have arisen in which both people belonging to the world of the seventh art and others who are not have established their position on various issues.
Hours before the great debut of the festival, a group of French film professionals published a letter in which they disagreed with a contest that puts “men and women who attack on the red carpet.” It was a clear allusion to the actor Johnny Deppwho was accused of being a “wife beater”, of which he was clarified by law.
At 59, the actor recognized worldwide for his role as Captain Jack Sparrow in ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’walked the red carpet in the middle of the controversy and received a warm seven-minute ovation for his participation in the film ‘Jeanne du Barry’in which he plays the former King of France Louis XV.
“Regarding my life and everything that you have read in the press, I must say that it is a fiction written in a fanciful and horrendous way,” Deep explained.
Actor, writer and director Sean Penn showed this Friday in Cannes his full support for the scriptwriters in the strike they are maintaining for the improvement of their working conditions. “The industry has been ruining writers and actors for a long time,” the actor said.
For Penn the Producers Association of America (PGA) It should be called the “Bankers Association” and lamented that there are “many people in this sector who don’t work as they would like and who are not paid as they should.”
Penn made these statements at a press conference in Cannes to present the film ‘Black Flies’directed by Frenchman Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire and in which he stars alongside Tye Sheridan.
The actor also highlighted that there are many worrying new concepts around the cinema, such as the use of Artificial Intelligence, which he described as “human obscenity”.
Last Wednesday, there was also the appearance of an anti-surrogacy activistduring the ascent of the steps of the “Return”, by Catherine Corsini. Pregnant, this feminist woman wore a dress open on her belly, with the mention “Surrogate Management”, which means “surrogate-mother”. She was quickly evacuated by security members.
The woman would be a member of the organization of radical feminists, Collective Scum, which on his Twitter account stated this: “There is no ethical or kind way to sell the body of a woman and her child. There is no good way to do something profoundly wrong. We want abolition now. Stop selling us.” According to the activist, surrogacy, also known as surrogacy, is closely related to the film industry.
Surrogacy is “rooted in capitalist ideology, as well as in the international market for human trafficking. The products sold are newborns, the means of production are the bodies of their mothers. Since the commercialization of women and children is profoundly incompatible with our human dignity and fundamental rights, we urge all countries to respect the international human rights conventions to which they have signed and, therefore, to work towards the abolition of surrogacy. national and international level”, added the collective in their social networks.
2023-05-20 21:29:23
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