Cannes Film Festival

Indiana Jones actor Harrison Ford received a surprise honorary Palme d’Or ahead of the opening night of Indiana Jones and the Fates.

“It’s indescribable, maybe I can’t even express it. To suddenly see your whole life in front of you in a montage of roles is something extraordinary, extremely warm,” he said the next day at a press conference about his feelings from the entire evening.

The film Indiana Jones and the Fates is also the first directed by James Mangold, and let it be said that his famous predecessor Steven Spielberg, who by his own decision handed over the director’s position to a younger colleague and remained the producer, nor the producer George Lucas (the latter, on the other hand, does not have the first time with the film nothing in common) he did not disgrace.

Kathleen Kennedy, the longtime producer of the series, praised this with warm words.

The film is visually masterful, it is a great tribute to all the previous works of the franchise and at the same time an almost touching chronicle of the passage of time, aging.

We meet the central hero for the first time during the war, when he has to deal with the Nazis again, and the fact is that special technology has rejuvenated Ford beyond belief.

The filmmakers used artificial intelligence to manipulate unused footage from previous films so the actor looks exactly as we remember him.

“It’s unbelievable what today’s technology can do, the tricks are fantastic. But they are just tricks. I myself am satisfied with my age, I have no need to get younger. I’m really happy: youth is beautiful, but I’m as old as I am, and I’m still working. So it’s all good,” said Ford, who actually looks paradoxically better than Indiana Jones on screen.

After the aforementioned prologue, we meet him in his New York apartment as an old abandoned man.

Only in shorts, with his old body deliberately emphasized (admiration for the actor who allowed himself to be immortalized in this way!) he goes to scold the young group in the neighboring apartment, who are very loudly celebrating the first man’s landing on the moon.

At something like this, the old archaeologist just waves his hand in annoyance and, in a miserable mood, goes to the university to give a lecture to very bored students. Then there is only one surprise waiting for him, a party organized for his retirement.

But, you know it… A young woman (Phoebe Waller-Bridge), whom Indy knew as a little girl, shows up and tells him something that piques the new retiree’s interest.

It concerns a certain Archimedes’ invention, which is also coveted by the old Nazi gang, led by Jones’s opponent in this piece, excellently played by Mads Mikkelsen.

After all, he noted on the press release that when he saw Raiders of the Lost Ark as a boy, he first wanted to become an actor. And play Indiana Jones. “These are movies for the whole world,” he said.

It would be extremely rude to reveal more of the plot, the film will not be released in Czech cinemas until June 29. We can only promise that there will also be time travel, that the chases and fights are imaginative and very well shot, and that Ford’s horse ride through the subway tunnel will probably go down in history as one of the funniest scenes in the film, which once again alternates action with humor.

Fans of Antonio Banderas will probably be a little disappointed by the fact that his role is so small that the actor, used to leading roles, probably accepted it as a joke. Maybe even to make his own mark in the legendary series. He succeeded.

So the festival has done Indiana Jones and is already impatiently looking forward to Leonardo DiCaprio, who will arrive together with his court director Martin Scorsese, with whom he will present the three-and-a-half-hour film Killers of the Flower Moon on Saturday evening.

They wanted to film it for a long time, it finally came out. In it, they tell the true story of the 1920s, when members of the Osage Indian tribe in the United States were murdered under mysterious circumstances, which triggered a large-scale FBI investigation, in which FBI director J. Edgar Hoover was also involved.