The first realization of Sandrine Kiberlain, the beginnings of a filmmaker with Depardieu, films from Ukraine or Colombia: for its 60th anniversary, the Critics' Week, organized during the Cannes Film Festival, wants to continue to clear up "
the cinema to come
”.
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The selection, unveiled Monday, aligns seven feature films in competition, all first films, and six others in special screenings, among more than 1000 viewed by the selectors, slightly less than the other years.
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Many films show "
characters who fight, stories of emancipation of boys or female characters, the desire to forge one's path, to go all the way
," Charles Tesson told AFP , the general delegate.
Among the films in competition submitted to the jury chaired by Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu (Palme d'Or 2007), all first films and only one French work:
Rien à foutre
, by Julie Lecoustre and Emmanuel Marre with Adèle Exarchopoulos, hostess of look like a low-cost company.
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