Introjection (ecstatic)

… It is therefore both exciting and essential to turn our attention onto current cinematographic creation, as it is presented - amongst others - in the Cannes film festival. This is the aim of this new form of the Inrocks in Cannes, a daily issue that will feel the pulse, over ten days, of an essential festival, of the films being produced nowadays in France and abroad, of those who make them, who watch them, who discuss them. 

These daily issues will reveal what seems important – or not – to us. This circles back, quite accurately so, to what Léa Seydoux said about introjection – a concept, by the way, that I just discovered – in this first issue, in which she meets Louis Garrel, her acting partner in the newest film by Quentin Dupieux that was shown Tuesday as an opener to the festival: “Projection is projecting something of yourself onto the outside world. Introjection, on the contrary, consists in letting something of the world reach us, and leave a mark on us.” Which films will leave a mark on us during the two weeks to come? The Shrouds by David Cronenberg? Oh, Canada by Paul Schrader ? Emilia Perez by Jacques Audiard ? Marcello Mio by Christophe Honoré ? Parthenope by Paolo Sorrentino ? The Substance by Coralie Fargeat ? Or perhaps Les Reines du drame byAlexis Langlois ? Les Fantômes by Jonathan Millet (Semaine de la critique) ? Miséricorde by Alain Guiraudie ? Eat the Night by Poggi-Vinel ? Les Femmes au balcon by Noémie Merlant, co-written with Céline Sciamma ? And many more… Which encounters, words, images, moments, feelings, heartbeats, expectations, disappointments, melancholies and joys will leave their sediments within us, will contribute to build our personal and collective imaginations, like the world we inhabit? What will we retain of this year’s edition of the festival? A glimmering glance, untied hair, a spiky heel, a wave, a breath, a voice, a shot, a movement, an intention, a feeling of tiredness or of ecstasy…

Welcome to these new daily issues, and welcome to this 2024 edition of the festival. May it prove to be as exalting and modern in its films as in its speeches and stances!

Traduction Emma Frigo