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Posted on 05/15/2025 4:13:17 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
CANNES, France (AP) — Cannes is a short trip from Bono’s seaside villa in Eze-sur-Mer. He bought it with The Edge in 1993, and considers himself grateful to a coastline that, he says, gave him a “delayed adolescence.”
“I can tell you I’ve slept on beaches close to here,” Bono says with a grin. “I’ve woken up in the sun.”
But that doesn’t mean the Cannes Film Festival is a particularly familiar experience for the U2 frontman. He’s here to premiere the Apple TV+ documentary “Bono: Stories of Surrender,” which captures his one-man stage show. Before coming, Bono’s daughter, the actor Eve Hewson, gave him some advice.
“She said: ‘Just get over yourself and bring it,’” Bono said in an interview on a hotel off the Croisette. “What do I have to bring? Bring yourself and your gratitude that you’re a musician and they’re allowing you into a festival that celebrates actors and storytellers of a different kind. I said, ‘OK, I’ll try to bring it.’”
Besides, Cannes, he notes, was founded amid World War II as an alternative to then-Mussolini controlled Venice Film Festival. It was, he says, “designed to find fascists.”
Shifts in geopolitical tectonics was much on Bono’s mind. He has spent much of his activist life fighting for aid to Africa and combating HIV-AIDS. U.S. President Donald Trump’s dismantling of USAID has reversed much of that.
“What’s irrational is taking pleasure in the defacement of these institutions of mercy,” Bono said.
“Bono: Stories of Surrender,” an Andrew Dominik-directed black-and-white film that begins streaming May 30, adapts the one-man stage show that, in turn, came from Bono’s 2022 book, “Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story.”
In the film, Bono is self-effacing and reflective, sifting through the formative influence of...
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And so not true. Early 60s were worse.
Yeah, your DemoRAT pols got us into this mess, we adults will fix it.
Thanks for nothing Dodo.
Probably because of your crap music.
I’d rather he just sit down. Dont wanna hear him sing.
Rather watch the South Park episode with him.
Here, I thought he was dead.
Bro does not comprehend the meaning of the word ‘corruption’ or what? These “institutions of mercy’ have been staging points for gov’t sponsored money laundering, fraud, and outright waste of taxpayer money on a level never before seen. Fkg idiot.
U2 is the most overrated band ever.
It’s a strange thing with him
Thanks for Chering...😄😃🤣🤪
I remember walking around school in near terror during the CMC. Bono is completely full of it. We’ve never been that close to nuke war since. If not for the action of an officer On a Soviet sub the nukes would have been launched. It was that close.
pretty much
9/11 was a lot more dangerous than this, too, but then again, Bono os a celebrity. They know everything. /sarc
Nixon was pretty concerned in October, 1973
Though not so much deployed hardware at that time
But he saw the potential escalation
Thank God Trump is Pres.
Bono needs to worry about actually making a decent album, which they haven’t done in about 40 years.
And that Rocky sequel STILL has a far-better
theater average than Gay Disney’s
re-released “Snow White”
Patrick Bateman loves him some Bono
I don’t think I could give anyone advice before coming. Too distracting.
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