Cannes surrenders to Indiana Jones: tears, ovation and Honorary Palm for Harrison Ford at 80

The mythical actor has captured all eyes this Thursday at the Cannes Film Festivalwhere he has presented the fifth installment of Indiana Jones, with which he says goodbye to one of the characters who has given him the most joy on the big screen. Accompanied by his wife, Calista Flockhart (58), Harrison Ford He posed smiling at the photocall and was received with a long standing ovation that made the audience stand up.

The couple, married for 20 years and the parents of a son, entered the Grand Theater Lumière to the rhythm of the soundtrack that John Williams composed for the intrepid adventurer four decades ago.

The 80-year-old interpreter has gone up on stage to collect the Honorary Palme d’Orhighly deserved for his extensive and successful career in the seventh art, where he has given life to characters so remembered in the imagination as Han Solo (Star Wars), Rick Deckard (Blade Runner) or the President of the United States himself on board the Air Force One, which they have remembered in the auditorium with a beautiful assembly. Moved, he thanked the public: “I am deeply pleased by this distinction. They say that before you die you see your life pass before your eyes, and I saw my life pass before my eyes.”

A few hours before, Ford has presented the fifth installment of Indiana Jones, The Dial of Fate, confirming that it will be the last time in his career that he picks up the historian’s whip: “I am very satisfied with the work done.” Directed by James Mangold (the previous four were directed by Spielberg), it will hit theaters on June 30.