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Cannes (France) (AFP) - The director of an explosive biopic that shows Donald Trump raping his wife defended the controversial scene on Tuesday, telling AFP the alleged incident is "well known" and explains the ex-president's character. "The Apprentice", which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, traces Trump's origins as an ambitious young property developer in 1970s and 1980s New York. Donald Trump's team has vowed to sue the producers, calling it "garbage" and "pure malicious defamation". The most controversial scene is that of Trump raping his first wife, Ivana, after she belittles him f...
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What – or who – turned young real-estate executive Donald Trump into the tangerine menace who just refuses to go away? This is the question that drives Ali Abbasi’s English-language debut The Apprentice – a conventional but compelling biopic scripted by journalist Gabriel Sherman, which focuses on the formative years of the man who would one day worm himself into the White House. We meet The Donald (Sebastian Stan) in a Manhattan club, where he attempts to impress his date by listing some of the guests there. He’s awkward, out-of-his-depth, and crippled with daddy issues, struggling to make a ...
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After her impressive calling card in 2017 with the bloody and candy-coloured Revenge, Coralie Fargeat has clearly been brushing up on her body horror. And she did not come to Cannes to play gently. There isn’t anything in the French writer-director’s second film, The Substance, that hasn’t been addressed before. The fear of aging – specifically how Hollywood’s obsession with beauty leads to the ruthless system discarding female talent the second they’re “past it” - has been seen in countless films. However, Fargeat executes it with a merciless precision that out-Cronenbergs Cronenberg. She wil...
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Egyptian protesters rally at Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square, saying they will organise a sit-in untill the borders with the Gaza Strip are open. October 20, 2023. Screenshot froma video by AFP News Agency. Fair use. This post by Haneen Shoukry was first published by Raseef 22 on May 8, 2024. An edited version is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement. Our MENA team added the links to provide further clarification. On Tuesday, April 23, protesters in Cairo were detained while participating in a peaceful demonstration in support of women in Sudan and Gaza. Ironically, ...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Paramount Pictures' imaginary friend film "If" debuted atop the North American box office this weekend, taking in an estimated $35.0 million, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations reported Sunday. The John Krasinski-directed family comedy stars Cailey Fleming as a young girl who -- along with neighbor Ryan Reynolds -- embarks on an adventure to reconnect forgotten made-up playmates with their children. "This is a good opening for a live-action/animation hybrid, at above average levels for the genre," said analyst David A. Gross of Franchise Entertainment Research, adding the...
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Cannes (France) (AFP) - Two Hollywood legends make their comeback at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday, as Kevin Costner launched his sprawling self-funded Western and Demi Moore returned in a gore-filled body horror flick. The star-studded premieres arrive midway through the world's most famous movie festival, where "Emilia Perez" -- a musical about a transgender drug lord, starring Selena Gomez -- is currently the talk of the town. Epic Western "Horizon, an American Saga" is a passion project for Costner, who told AFP he had started working on the screenplay in 1988. Despite having enormous...
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You are not ready for this one... Cannes mainstay Jacques Audiard returns to the Competition with a Spanish-language melodrama about Mexican cartel boss Manitas (Karla Sofía Gascón), who wants to become a woman. In order to do so undetected from the criminal underworld, he kidnaps a lawyer, Rita (Zoé Saldaña), who is tired of defending violent husbands in a corrupt system that leaves “a taste of shit” in her mouth. She is tasked with finding the right doctor to perform the multitude of surgical procedures, and soon understands that this life-changing transformation isn’t about disappearing to ...
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By Huw GRIFFITH Burbank (États-Unis) (AFP) - Des boites métalliques rondes, stockées du sol au plafond. Dans ces salles à l'humidité contrôlée près de Los Angeles, une poignée de spécialistes travaillent à la conservation d'un million de bobines qui constituent la mémoire aussi précieuse que fragile d'Hollywood. Pendant que les stars du moment montent les marches à Cannes, de petites mains à l'autre bout du monde livrent dans l'ombre une bataille contre le temps: sauvegarder pour les grands studios des kilomètres de pellicules d'originaux de chefs-d'oeuvre du cinéma américain. La grande peur, ...
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Burbank (United States) (AFP) - Reels of film and the Hollywood stars who fill them share one common enemy: aging. But while an actor can go under the knife or get a bit of filler in an effort to stay young, it's a one-way street for film, which eventually starts to break down into its original -- rather prosaic -- ingredients. "Film base is actually wood pulp and acetic acid in its simplest form," says Tim Knapp of California-based film preservation specialists Pro-Tek Vaults. "Acetic acid over time produces what is called 'vinegar syndrome' which degrades the base of the film... and prevent...
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After the box office draw and acclaim of The Favourite and Poor Things, Yórgos Lánthimos reunites with his long-time writing partner Efthimis Filippou (Dogtooth, The Lobster, The Killing of a Sacred Deer) for a strange anthology triptych that is darker and far more surreal than his recent output. Kinds of Kindness tells three distinct stories using the same acting troupe in different roles, and it’ll prove divisive for fans of The Favourite and last year’s Poor Things. This triple helping of Lanthimos’ return to his Greek Weird Wave roots is for the OG fans - those who miss that queasy malaise...
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