After winning the Palme d'Or at the 74th Cannes Film Festival in July,
Titane
by Julia Ducournau was selected this Tuesday to represent France in the race for the Oscar for best international film.
The 37-year-old Frenchwoman is the second woman director to win the prestigious Cannes award after Jane Campion in 1993 for
La Leçon de piano
.
The film was chosen by the committee of the Center national de la cinématographie responsible for appointing France's representative at the 2022 Oscar for international feature films.
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Titanium,
by Julia Ducournau, flammable gold palm
Carried by Neon, the American distributor of
Parasite
who was able to hoist the thriller of Bong Joon-Ho to the firmament of the Oscars 2020,
Titanium
had a good chance of winning.
The genre film blending woman-machine hybridization, love for cars and the quest for fatherhood got off to an impressive start in the United States with $ 530,000 in revenue for 562 screens during its first weekend of operation in early October.
In France,
Titanium
exceeds 300,000 admissions.
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:
Julia Ducournau's
titanium
, sex, death and bodywork ...
The hardest part now remains: to slip into the list of nine films eligible for an Oscar nomination.
It is from among these nine titles that the five feature films that can claim a statuette will be chosen next March.
Last year,
Deux
by Filippo Meneghetti was presented by France but did not pass this Oscar Academy preselection bar.
The last time that France won the Oscar for best foreign film, it was
Indochina
in 1992. If Julia Ducournau wins, it will be a first for a French director!
And one more asset for women filmmakers at a time when Hollywood and festivals are working for better visibility of their talent.
