The Cannes film festival is a representation of a global cinematic community that stands in opposition to Donald Trump's MAGA movement. It features diverse voices and projects from around the world, highlighted by the opening film, 'Partir un Jour,' which reflects on a dichotomy between cosmopolitan elites and rooted cultures. This film underscores sentiments that resonate with those who feel disconnected from globalization, highlighting the value of local traditions and simple pleasures over high-end culinary fads. The festival serves as a platform for filmmakers to share passionate responses against Trump's ideologies.
The Cannes film festival, which closes on Saturday, is in many ways the very definition of the globalism that the American president's Maga movement despises.
In French director Amelie Bonnin's opening film Partir un Jour, driven-but-stressed celebrity chef Cecile is preparing for the opening of her new haute cuisine diner in Paris.
If at the heart of the culture war waged by Trump and his populist allies in Europe runs a divide between locally rooted somewheres and cosmopolitan anywheres, Partir un Jour is very much a somewhere film.
Cecile's father ribs his daughter about her disdain for the unsophisticated palates of the yokels, but it's apparent from the outset that the film's sympathies lie a lorry-ride away from France's cosmopolitan centre.
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