>KHAN KHANNE (2014) by Jean Luc GODARD (Letter in motion to Gilles JACOB* and Thierry FREMAUX): Jean-Luc Godard did not attend the world premiere of his new film GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE at Cannes. But instead sent a letter in motion to Gilles Jacob* and Thierry Fremaux, the directors of the Festival.
>refuses to go to the festival, instead sends them a letter saying CANNES should be renamed KHAN
>Kahn is a German surname, a Germanized form of the Jewish surname Cohen, another variant of which is Cahn.
What did he mean by that?
In selection this year:
Loveless, d’Andrey Zvyagintsev
Good Time, des frères Safdie (BOTH JEWISH*)
You Were Never Really Here, de Lynne Ramsay (obligatory female quotas because we're so progressive)
L’amant double, de François Ozon
Jupiter’s Moon, de Kornel Mandruczo
A Gentle Creature, de Sergei Loznitsa (can't find infos but his previous film shown at Cannes was about Jews*, so take a wild guess)
Mise à mort du cerf sacré, de Yorgos Lanthimos
Radiance, de Naomi Kawase (obligatory female quotas because we're so progressive)
The Day After, de Hong Sangsoo
Le redoutable, de Michel Hazanavicius (JEWISH*), about Godard
Wonderstruck, de Todd Haynes (JEWISH*)
Happy End, de Michael Haneke (PRO-MIGRANTS, BORN NON-JEW BUT RAISED BY A JEW*)
Rodin, de Jacques Doillon
The Beguiled, de Sofia Coppola (NEPOTISM, also was married to a Jew, Spike Jonze*) (obligatory female quotas because we're so progressive)
120 battements par minute, de Robin Campillo
Okja, de Bong Joon-Ho
In The Fade, de Faith Akin
The Meyerowitz Stories, de Noah Baumbach (JEWISH*)
Opening film by Arnaud Desplechin (first film shown at Cannes was Esther Kahn, about Jews*)
Claude Lanzmann (JEW*, dir. of SHOAH) also there
Didnt check other sections but the most famous in the list is Mathieu Amalric, who is, you guessed it, JEWISH*
Almodóvar head of jury (Gay, LGBT)
>Cannes International Film Festival's goal is to reflect the diversity of world cinema
* less than 1% of the world population