“Fear is not going to be something that drives our country”, Clooney said.
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‘But I think in this life I just want to admire it from a small distance and be glad when my capabilities come into the orbit of a director that I just live to serve and impress, ‘ she said with a smile for Foster.
The film taps into millennial disillusionment through the captor Kyle (Jack O’Connell), a young man unable to provide for his family, which Foster said “did tap into something, there’s a certain rage of a generation of people”.
“Jodie was awesome to work with”, Guest says. George held Amal’s lower back while they posed, and the two couldn’t stop holding hands as they made their way up the steps of the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès. “Technology has brought us this constant connection, everybody is communicating, everybody is experiencing everything in real time, and yet we’re more isolated from each other than we ever have been”.
“It’s really easy, because your numbers go up”. “Money Monster” doesn’t know, and its plot is so muddled and increasingly unbelievable that somehow a movie that includes a bomb squad ends up boring.
Those films are “Network” (1976), in which a TV news anchor goes haywire on the air, and “Dog Day Afternoon” (1975), where a bank robber goes bonkers, takes hostages and screams at the news cameras.
“There’s a great disaster in the way we inform ourselves now”, Clooney told press.
Foster responded to a pointed political question when a reporter asked if her film was really about the Bernie Sanders narrative and the Wall Street-is-corrupt theme so prevalent in his campaign. Roberts is the only star to take off her shoes at the festival this year, but Kristen Stewart and Susan Sarandon have rocked some cute flats in ~rebellion~.
It’s hard to walk away from that Clooney-Roberts chemistry with such a bad taste in your mouth, but when they close the movie with the line, “What the hell kind of show are we going to do next week?” panic sets in.
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“I hadn’t seen much response to the financial crisis by Hollywood”, said Dominic West, star of “The Wire” and “The Affair” who plays a banker in Foster’s film, told a news conference just before the premiere. It also seems like a cruel trick to have those two in a movie and to keep them in separate rooms for a large portion of it, communicating only through a speaker system as Patty attempts to “direct” the hostage situation from the control room. Sometimes they’re green-screen. But most of the time they’re not. And I think that’s been a big problem.
