In celebration of the 79th Cannes Film Festival, Bar°58 at the Carlton Cannes, A Regent Hotel, has arranged to host an exclusive and unique event dedicated to the world of mixology. This concept celebrates the artistic language of cocktails, marrying creativity, technique and emotion into a tangible program for guests to experience.
Conceived with the intent to live across three chapters, this exclusive itinerary was set to be experienced across three dates in May: the 15th, 17th and 19th. Three signature cocktails were specially crafted to celebrate and honour Lisbon, Barcelona and Paris. Every spirit poured over the counter of Bar°58 at the “Grande Dame” would deliver unforgettable performances that inspire and delight guests incorporating themes of nature, gesture and theatre.
ACT I – May 15
“Frozen Garden,” with Constança Cordeiro
The story begins in Lisbon.
Surrounded by fractals of frozen beauty, time appears to have stopped in a botanical bounty of crystalline preserve. Natural form becomes sculpture, and ice has been assigned a multiplicity of function — fragile architecture, matter and a botanical memory captured in time.
Florals imprisoned within the cold’s breath, glassware chilled to a frost, and natural forms captured within translucent blocks to compose a suspended landscape. Cold light illuminates the vessels, oscillating between the deep blue, mineral white and crystalline shards, while vapour and condensation build an overpour atmosphere around a still world.
With Lisbon-born and raised Constança Cordeiro, mixology expands the boundaries of creative vision and execution. Botanical infusions, frozen textures and layered compositions built around transparency and temperature rise to the top. Each cocktail lives as a fragment of garden, recomposed in a state that is both frozen and alive.
ACT II – May 17
“The Art of Gesture,” with Simone Caporale & Boadas Cocktails
Barcelona imposes a shift in tempo. At the heart of this experience, Bar°58 transforms into a theatrical stage where movement inspires language. Inspired by the founding of the legendary Boadas Cocktail Bar in 1933, this chapter investigates the power of expressive physical form.
In a setting that evokes the intimacy of a theatre, amidst dark wood, soft lighting and white-jacketed silhouettes, every gaze remains fixed, and every eye is focused.
Seeking absolute precision, classic cocktails are reimagined. Every motion is distilled to its core, transforming each movement into deliberate intent. In this approach, ornamentation is discarded in favour of minimalism, where exactness serves as the defining hallmark.
Silence has the power to suspend time, and the bartender’s work becomes a dance of choreography, even hypnotic, at times, while an artist captures the lines live, extending gesture into another form.
ACT III – May 19
“Maxim’s Fantasmagorie,” with Jean Munoz Maxim’s
Paris arrives at the Croisette to deliver the final soirée in a splendour of timeless cabaret.
A Belle Époque fantasy is brought to life through a blend of unabashed opulence and sensual spectacle. Maxim’s universe becomes a launching point for total immersion; the bar becomes a manifestation of what is to come, a stage and every moment a performance.
Enveloped in an Art Nouveau aesthetic, gilding frames the experience, deep velvets transport the atmosphere, and moody lighting transcends the space with an energy of perpetual spectacle. Not one moment is static; everything is in motion.
Classic French cocktails are reimagined through a narrative lens, where the act of service is elevated to a theatrical performance. By amplifying and prolonging every movement, the bartenders transform the creation of each drink into a dramatic work of art.
As Dimasax’s saxophone maintains a steady musical tension all evening, and cabaret performers weave through the area. Bit by bit, the lines separating the bar, the show and the realm of fantasy begins to fade.
Conceived at the Carlton Cannes, A Regent Hotel, this three-part production is becoming a definitive highlight of the Cannes Film Festival.
