The selection, the last of the Delegate General Paolo Moretti, welcomes nine first feature films and invites some regulars including Mia Hansen-Løve or Philippe Faucon.
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Twenty-three feature films, from the beautiful good of the new (with nine first films), and it’s gone! The 54 e edition of the fifteen directors, parallel section cannise, will take place from 18 to 27 May. Its General Delegate, Paolo Moretti, appointed in 2018, unveils, Tuesday, April 19, his last selection, the board of directors of the French director (SRF), elected in September 2021, having announced his will to “rethink in depth, “Fortnight, up to” his name, singularity and strategic and activist “. In question, during the press conference, on the meaning of this future reform, the co-chair of the SRF, Frederick Farruguci, referred the explanation of text to later: “Do not let us trust the pleasure of this beautiful selection”, He reacted. The name of the new general delegate (e) could be announced after the Cannes Film Festival. Frédéric Farruguci announced that the golden coach – special reward of the fortnight – will be awarded this year to Kelly Reichardt, director of First Cow (2021), who revisits the founding myths of America with great acuity Politics and aesthetics.
The festivities will begin as it should be with the opening film, the flight, the Italian Pietro Marcello, folk tale, musical and historical, freely inspired by the work the scarlet sails (1923), of Alexander Grine. Flight, like a nod to the poster of this 54 e edition, Blue Flight (“blue flight”), a photo of Cecilia Paredes, where the silhouette of the Peruvian performer Melt in a blue sky cloth printed with birds. Look for the artist, look for the woman: the realizers, precisely, will be numerous (eleven in total), with some “returns” – Mia Hansen-Løve, Alice Winocour – and new signatures, such as the actress Charlotte the good, who Signs his first “long”: Falcon Lake, an adaptation of the BD of Bastien Vivès, a sister (Casterman, 2017). Or other surprise, the novelist Annie Ernaux, born in 1940, who signs with his son, David Ernaux, the years Super-8, Family Archive Moving Film.
After competing in official competition, in 2021, with Bergman Island, Mia Hansen-Løve returns to the fortnight (where she had presented everything is forgiven in 2007), with a beautiful morning (One Fine Morning) and his casting From shock – Léa Seydoux, in the role of a woman taking care of her sick father (Pascal Greggory), as well as Melvil Poupaud and Nicole Garcia. Alice Winocour, whose first feature film, Augustine (2012), had been selected at the Week of Critique, arrives at the Fortnight with Review Paris (Paris Memories): Virginie Efira interprets an American journalist in the French capital At the time of a terrorist attack … (Benoît Magimel and Gregory Colin complete the casting).
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