Arts24 in Cannes: Helen Mirren on why swagger is better than beauty • FRANCE 24 English

[Music] [Applause] [Music] hello and thanks for joining Arts 24 from the can film festival today about Bloody time that's what Dame Helen mirin told me when I asked her about the increasing recognition women are getting in the film world with a career spanning 60 years she has three Golden Globes five Emmys and Oscar a Tony for bafs we knowe the British actress best for the film the queen and the TV series Prime Suspect at 78 she's a face of L'Oreal Paris hi I'm Helen mirin and I'm on France [Music] 24 hello Mir hello hello tell us what does the can film festival mean to you when I very first came to K I was doing experimental theater in Paris living a very very Bohemian life you know where stardom was disgusting and you know any everything that K represented was ex the exact opposite of what we were trying to do and I had a film opening at K it was oh lucky man and I arrived and I first of all they looked at what I was wearing and and said you can't wear that so I said well I don't have anything else I said well we go out and we'll buy you something so they went out and bought me a dress and um I'd never experienced that thing of you know walking in front of photographers before and I found it just the most terrifying thing I was shaking like this when I got to the top of the stairs I was like that it was so traumatic so anyway that was my first can experience how have you managed to get used to it because you're not obviously like that on the red carpet no I'm not used to I am used to it I'm used to it to me now it's theater you know and I I I've done a lot of theater so the red carpet is theater and and it's a performance and it's lovely I love it and I wanted to ask you Greta go is the head of the jury this year you had a big part as well in Barbie and the phenomenon that it became and you've also now got your own Barbie doll yes what do you make of this Barbie phenomenon in 2024 well it's so interesting isn't it because it's um it's so um it's radical when I um I visited Greta on the set and saw this extraordinary Pink House and I it was just so out there it was so bold and extreme and committed I I was just I was as we say in England Gob struck you know I was like oh my God this is either going to be an absolute disaster or a huge hit and luckily it was a huge hit but you know i' I'd work with Greta on a film we did a film many years ago and she was the sort of young you know the Young female character in it and she was tortured by the studio you know they kept dying her hair and then undying it and making her wear short skirt and then saying oh no that doesn't work and just kind of messing with her character constantly and so it was so great to see Greta now behind the camera a whole different ball game and can you share with us some details about your upcoming film The Thursday m the CB yes well this was um you know uh based on an extremely successful books I'm so looking forwarded working with my beloved fellow British actors um being in shooting in Britain anyway with a very British sort of subjects and I wanted to ask you about the L'Oreal Paris lights on women worth award yes why is that more important than than ever do you think well it continues to be important and and again it's one of the initi iives that I love that L'Oreal Paris do for women and about women and to encourage women more women to come behind the camera as directors to see the the sensibility and the understanding of of women directors beginning to influence the culture the stories that we watch is very important and to me and and my God a p bloody time you know I've only been waiting like 40 years or more for this to happen but finally is happening okay we'll leave it there about Bloody time thank you so much than you thank you next then to the first Indian film to be in the can competition in 30 years all we imagine as light is written and directed by pile kardia and is a portrait a beautiful portrait of female friendship in today's Mumbai some critics are tipping it for the big prize the Palm Door hi my name is p kapia uh my film is called all we imagine as [Music] light the film is about the friendship between three women and the kind of uh friendships one makes one one moves away from one's family and and makes another city their home I think a lot of young people would understand that [Music] a lot of times in the in the in the system of the patriarchy women are sort of uh pitted against each other there is an aspect of bringing the other one down it's so internalized that this is what happens which is a real pity because I think that if solidarity could exist uh beyond the patriarchy it could be such a great thing for all of [Music] us well ahead of the Palm Door announcement on Saturday night there's an award for the best lgbtq plus film the queer Palm has been running for 14 years this year it's been awarded to 3 kilometers to the end of the world a harsh move movie about the outcasting of a young homosexual in a remote Village in Romania yongqin made this report about the 18 films up for this year's prize a queer film is a film that breaks genre codes all LGBT feminist films are generally tools and weapons to understand the patriarchy dominate it and see how we can break it I'm born like this and the reason that I've come here this is from [Music] God on the 18 films that the jury was asked to see this year I think it was really interesting in that we have a fully exhaustive range of what queer Cinema can be [Music] queer Cinema or lgbtq Cinema um you know was often at the fringes of film making these stories were seen as Niche smallfish um and now um we see an accelerated amount of these stories reaching wider audiences um and so to see 18 films um throughout the can film festival official and unofficial competitions um competing um is massive because it means that more people can see different kinds of people that means that we have a a stronger understanding of what diversity truly looked like rather than one single [Music] thing now one of the prizes I get most excited about in can is the Palm dog the award for the best onscreen Pooch last year Messi from the Palm Door winning film anatomy of a full1 it this year first prize went to Cody from French Swiss actor Leticia dosh's dog on trial and the runner up was Zin from Black Dog starring Taiwanese Superstar Eddie Pang this report now from Jenny Ben braheim Messi won Palm dog last year on this very Beach on that red carpet the black and white border colly winner a palm dog really set the tone this year which has been unbelievably doggy I came across that story by chance it was inspired by a real one about a trial around the dog the dog wasn't the accused but he belonged to the accused and he had bitten someone the dog caused chaos in town and that really interested [Applause] me I was interested in the dog's presence he had quite a strange life with a lot of emotions and I wanted to convey their emotion like an American actor would do not a comic one but someone like Jain Phoenix thein pH of dogs [Music] her name is Shi and she is my my star she's the main character in the movie it's a universal story about a man and a dog their relationship serves as a reflection of their struggles and ultimately becomes a source of salvation for both I asked the director is it possible that I uh adopt her my life changed towards your seats well that's it from us today join me this Saturday evening for our closing show from the can film festival we'll be talking about the winners after the award ceremony see you then [Music]