Overview
- The 79th Festival de Cannes opened with Theodora and Oklou performing a spare, aerial cover of the Beatles’ Get Back set to visuals evoking the band’s 1969 rooftop concert.
- Earlier in the night, Elijah Wood presented Peter Jackson with an Honorary Palme d’Or for his work preserving music and film history, including the documentary series The Beatles: Get Back.
- Télérama reported that the duet jolted a quiet ceremony, casting the performance as the evening’s standout moment.
- The French outlet also credited producer SebastiAn with the arrangement of the Beatles cover, a detail not noted by other publications.
- Festival programming reinforces the theme, with Steven Soderbergh’s John Lennon documentary set for a Special Screening and a large Sam Mendes Beatles biopic still in production.