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Emmanuel Mouret, great filmmaker too little recognized

9/13/2022, 12:39:17 PM


The popular director is the author of a rich and singular work. Tuesday, September 5, the Henri Langlois room of the Cinémathèque française is full as an egg. That evening, Chronicle of a passing affair was screened at the opening of the retrospective dedicated to Emmanuel Mouret. The spectators are delighted. This was already the case at the beginning of July, at the La Rochelle Festival, where the new film by the author of Mademoiselle de Joncquières was sho

Tuesday, September 5, the Henri Langlois room of the Cinémathèque française is full as an egg.

That evening,

Chronicle of a passing affair

was screened at the opening of the retrospective dedicated to Emmanuel Mouret.

The spectators are delighted.

This was already the case at the beginning of July, at the La Rochelle Festival, where the new film by the author of

Mademoiselle de Joncquières

was shown in preview.

And, in May, at the Cannes Film Festival, where it was unveiled at Cannes Première, a parallel section to the competition created in 2021.

“Cannes Première is perhaps the section where you should have been this year

,” says producer Frédéric Niedermayer (Moby Dick Films), Emmanuel Mouret's fellow traveler since his second feature film, not without mischief.

Indeed, until this summer, we did not really know what this section was for, if not to make an already bulimic festival a little more obese.

Now, we know that some of the best films were there and that they met with success in theaters.

The…

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