(da Cannes Luigi Noera – Photos are published courtesy of the Festival de Cannes)

We begin with the Competition and we say that the rising sun is an air of nouvelle vague it is facing the first of the Italians in competition Alice Rohrwacher. Of course I do so with KORE-EDA HIROKAZU is tiring. KORE-EDA HIROKAZU presented a portrait of the Japanese company in difficulty as are the major western companies MANBIKI KAZOKU (A FAMILY MATTER). In megacities among futurists skyscrapers live even families that are the difference of the company. Yet in such a situation can lead a simple and peaceful life. To make ends meet the householder Osamu worked as a laborer. He and his son Shota however, are forced to steal in stores what it needs the family in everyday life. Yet there is in them so much humanity and empathy; Osamu fact has no qualms in helping those who are in trouble and does not hesitate to help the small Yuri cold and bring it into the little house where he lives with his wife Nobuyo, Aki in-law and mother-in-law Hatsue. The family actually supports retirement grandmother. Life goes on, but something happens that breaks the fragile balance of this microcosm of waste affluent metropolitan society. A delicate film that addresses current social issues. The other Japanese film Ryusuke HAMAGUCHI, in its second test it is adapted from the novel Tomoka Shibasaki NETEMO SAMETEMO (Asaka I & II). When we talk about love at first sight here it is what can happen. The young twenty Asako lives in Osaka and falls in love with Baku, a free-spirited guy who suddenly disappears. Two years later Asako meets in Tokyo, where does he live, the young Ryohei. The boy seems to be the double of Baku, but it has a completely different personality. Instead America a decidedly political film that we so appreciated. BLACKKKLANSMAN The SPIKE LEE . And the story of Ron Stallworth, an African-American cop who managed to join the Ku Klux Klan and thwart an assassination attempt against the President of the Black Power. There are many references to the insane policy of Trump such AMERICA FIRST. But it is also a story of integration and not confrontation. If a prize is worth, we can say that the two protagonists and Adam Driver JOHN DAVID WASHINGTON they can aspire to the Silver Palm. Ron Stallworth is a Colorado African-American police officer who manages to infiltrate successfully in the local clans of the Ku Klux Klan to the point of becoming one of the most important followers.

With this background, the acclaimed Italian film LAZARUS HAPPY by Alice Rohrwacher has to travel an uphill climb. The theme is the contrast between rural life and that of a city. Lazarus it sounds silly but that is attracted by the young Tancredi raised in the city. A theme revisited by director. In the ranking of international critics the film is in second place with the Chinese film and polish and this makes us proud.

out of Competition We enjoyed the documentary about Pope Francis realized by WIM WENDERS: POPE FRANCIS – A MAN OF HIS WORLD. A great director like Wim Wenders tells a great Argentine as Pope Francis. The film is the second film co-produced by the Vatican with external film companies, and the first time ever that a Pope speaks directly to viewers, addressing topics such as ecology, immigration, consumerism and social justice and especially his encyclical Laudate you with references to St. Francis from which this Pope who came from the "end of the world" was inspired from the first day of his election. These days then there was always the case out of competition of the much debated film THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT LARS VON TRIER which we will tell you in the next few days. As in all ancvhe Cannes Festival needs to create cases to attract the public's attention.

For the other selection contest In some perspective Nandita Das ci presenta MANTLE bioptic film set in India of the forties when the country became independent scindendosi for religious reasons in the current India-Pakistan. During that period of instability it is about the life of the writer Saadat Hasan Manto the Muslim religion but always lived in Bombay. His friendships with the actors of the time and especially his free spirit that clashes with liberticidal laws on freedom of thought.

He could not miss a horror from South America- It is the case of DIE, MONSTER, DIE in ALEJANDRO FADEL . Being Human needs to be afraid of others and above all the need of men to have a monster to which lean the guilt. The monster always sticks. The fear of man is present from the mythical tales of the earliest civilizations. How to deal with it? In naive style of severed heads and landscape reminiscent of the symbols of the seven it developed a dark storyline. As always, south america and south africa are well in hand and then other films The poachers (THE HARVESTERS) ETIENNE KALLOS of fact tells a saga of a farm in South Africa. At the center of the young Joann, son of farmers obedient to parents who live in the middle of the Catholic faith with you towards what life offers him. The arrival of Peter, orphaned and behavioral disorders, destabilizes the daily life of Joann and the entire family to the most extreme consequences. Finally for Critics Week we We propose a disappointing film by Rohena GERA in an Indian and French co-production. It is SIR (MONSIEUR) in which the story unfolds the relationship between the foundation castes of Indian society in a soap opera narrative.

For international critics the film most liked so far is the film Japanese KORE-EDA HIROKAZU with a rating of 3,2 followed precisely by Lazzaro Happy with 2,9. Certainly the way until the end of the Festival is long and let's see if the Italian Alice Rohrwacher resist attacks the other remaining contenders.