The Oscar winner Tilda Swinton calls for an SOS for Colombia at the Cannes Film Festival brandishing the tricolor flag together with some colleagues from the film Memory.
english actress Tilda Swinton is well known in our country for playing Jadis, the White Witch, in the saga The Chronicles of Narnia. In addition, she won an Oscar Award and a BAFTA for her supporting role in the film Michael Claytonfrom 2007. She is the protagonist of Memorya film shot in Colombia that competes for the Palme d’Or 2021 at the Cannes Film Festival, which is held in France.
With the flag of our country, Tilda Swinton asks for SOS for Colombia at the Cannes Film Festival
Memory It is about a woman who travels to Colombia to visit her sister, but who undertakes a journey within herself in which a series of auditory hallucinations will turn her life upside down. The Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul directed the film independent, which was shot in the municipality of Pijao (Quindío) and Bogotá; the feature film premieres in Cannes today, Thursday, July 15.
And precisely during the red carpet parade of said festival, Tilda, the director and Colombian actors Juan Pablo Urrego and Elkin Díaz They unfurled a Colombian flag with the message SOS written on it in front of the journalists’ cameras. Although she did not appear in all the photographs, the French actress Jeanne Balibar also accompanied them.
The news quickly went around the world and in our country some celebrities were quick to react and send hints to the compatriot artists who did not speak out against the violence during the national strike, did so too late or preferred to protest for Cuba. Check out some reactions…
“#SOSColombia the world continues to see what is happening here. They will not be able to cover up this atrocious reality with lying speeches. There are many lives taken. We have all seen the violence and neglect of the government.”
«WHAT A MOMENT. The people in the room applauded until they couldn’t stop and my tears ran down my face.
Those who did not know (in Cannes) what is happening in our country now know. Incredible
@urregojuanp and @ elkindiaz37 STOPPED. daddies.
@carolinaguerram
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