Woody Allen opened the film festival in Cannes: In Holly Woodys World – Tagesspiegel

The old men of Cannes have it, if they even allow a visit by the cinema, the sport, and especially with the painting. At the press conference for the opening film of the World Film Festival Woody Allen said when asked why his so handsome “Café Society” antrete as little competition as before any of his films, by which the festival tear: “Competition only works in sport. Nothing against personal preference, but there is no objectively best film. Why should a Rembrandt better than an El Greco, a Matisse better than a Picasso? That could against my common sense. “

Also, festival director Thierry Fremaux, a generation younger than the unrivaled annually further film-forming Woody Allen, is notionally to the museum when he justifies the allegiance to the United veterans of film art. “It is expected but not the Louvre that it depends his old masters, only to fresh wind reinzubringen” he said recently the British trade magazine “Screen International”. And he made to illustrate a detour towards athletics: “At the Olympics I will indeed Usain Bolt see and not Mr Anyone who goes every Sunday morning walk with his dog.”

Even if a nothing movie Competitions holds and the other unchallenged may argue Cannes is the “world Cup of cinema”: As arrogant they are both. Anyway, at the online commentator who Fremaux “snob What a!” Wrote in the digital book, and in the French newspaper “Le Figaro”, the sighs once more, Woody Allen would in Cannes always “Snobben” palms Competition. In fact, the two act only logical to obvious principles that others have their respective brand over the decades everything than harm. Or, to quote Fremaux ‘other self-confident sports comparison: “In a World Cup rugby match the best players on the pitch. In Cannes we will choose the best films of “

Allen holds the unofficial title of the triple opening Champions Cannes

Exact 1869 films were submitted to the festival -. But what the Cannes merely make, though the new Woody Allen is so good again? Then it programmed “Café Society” just as the opening film and doing the Ältestmeister while the strongest competitor yet contrary trample their third Palme d’Or, for “Hollywood Ending” (2002) and “Midnight in Paris” (2011) the unofficial title of the triple opening Champions on. In fact, Woody Allen may contend on the podium with the placed on the hearing aid translation headphones and joke that they would one day compassionately point to the stroke victim in a wheelchair. But the man is fascinating resilience. “I’m 80, I can not believe it. I feel young myself, I’ve probably hit the jackpot, “he shouts in the filled to the last seat hall. If that is not a wonderful enviable commitment

Being in Hollywood thirties playing, now 52. film with Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg in the lead roles – both blutjung- also shows how much of this cinematic magician is familiar with any age. Boy meets girl, that’s the nice bait, but from the beginning, love is mined due to other bonds, forbidden secret in short, structurally impossible – and growing but for life and fundamental. In narrative top form, with Allen himself as narrator, at a brisk timing and color-rich beguiling, sometimes almost painting-like images of the cameraman Vittorio Storaro it goes through the growing up of two people a melancholy end contrary, the sensitive souls rips the heart and robust minds lift the spirits spoils. There is no right life in the wrong? Yes it is the main thing, the wrong life is life itself

The first timid Bobby from New York hires with his uncle Phil (Steve Carell) on, a powerful film agent in Los Angeles, and he promptly fell in love. in Phils secretary Vonnie. Jesse Eisenberg plays this boy withdrawn, precisely and effectively; Kristen Stewart gives her Vonnie as girl next door that rises later as Bobby in the Society. There both function correctly, they as topsituierte wife, he as a manager of the New York precious cafes “Society”; at the same time preserving a Fremdeln over that higher society. Arrived they are in it and, in seconds, the true sensation, overshot from orbit, which they seem so determined to belong to.

In actual fact, “Café Society” as a satire on the shallowness of that studio Hollywood Read which Storaro immersed in an unreal dauerbesonntes evening light. Equally, however, it is a hymn to this movie and the California movie palaces of those years, the same in their gold Overloaded awareness baroque churches. Above all, the film seems, in the retro look with thoroughly modern faces as timeless romantic comedy that then bubbled so elegant in minor, as it can probably only use a really old man in scene. As if there were in the life of no beginning and no end, but only the circle that closes

The festival, however, has its linear dramaturgy -. And it looks as if Woody Allen once again to start his unmistakable weightless tone set. Since Cannes may put his blässlichstes face under low clouds, as might from resonating current events of massive security reinforcements of the question: the end of April there was an anti-terrorist exercise at the festival palace, and even on Monday visited the French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve demonstratively city , The day before the opening of the local newspaper “Nice Matin” did not count as the films in the official program (49), but the local surveillance cameras (500) and wrote by hundreds of uniformed and plain clothes as well as possible against attacks to the Festival country to protect and to water.

A fortress is like the festival on the opening morning, however little. Only the checkers at the entrances to the festival palace, the scan of the pockets of the film people see something more muscular and serious than usual Then the hall light goes out -. And a night sparkle begins on a damage done by Woody Allen Pool Party whose guests just about superstars and blockbuster projects talking about how the thousands will do in the coming days in Cannes. Yet we are in a completely different again, in his world.