PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews director Nicolas Winding Refn, who talks about the European Cut of Dawn of the Dead from the 73rd Venice Film Festival.
DAWN OF THE DEAD. 1978: the Apocalypse has suddenly struck the world. For some unknown reason, the bodies of the recently dead have begun to reanimate themselves have aggressive and cannibalistic instincts. A mixed group of people escape in a helicopter find and refuge in a large shopping center near to Pittsburg which, after having eliminated all the living dead there, they transform into a kind of new Eden where they try to create a semblance of normal life. The threat of the zombies is added to by a band of ferocious motor-powered looters who take whatever they can find, killing and shooting as they do so. In order to survive there is no other choice that to fight and kill, so as not to lose what they have so laboriously achieved…
For the first time in its history, the Cannes Film Festival reveals two official posters for its 78th edition, inspired by Claude Lelouch’s 1966 Palme d’Or-winning masterpiece A Man and a Woman.
Alice Rohrwacher has been appointed President of the Caméra d’or Jury at Cannes 2025. Known for her poetic and visionary cinema, Rohrwacher will award the best first feature at the festival’s closing ceremony on May 24.