The year 2022 faces an abundance of films and actors from France, a president of the jury and a French opening film: enough to stand out on the red carpet of this 75th edition.
Unifrance, an organization responsible for the influence and promotion of French cinema abroad, declared in a press release on May 13 that
“a total of nearly 80
French works” in production or co-production will be visible during the Cannes Film Festival.
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The festivities also open on Tuesday, May 17, with the French comedy
Coupez!
by Michael Hazanavicius.
The feature film tells the wobbly and horrifying filming of a zombie movie in a disused building.
Then the official selection of the Cannes Film Festival puts in the running for the Palme d'Or, four films by French directors.
Les Amandiers
by Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi offers a film about the Amandiers theater school founded by the French director Patrice Chéreau, against the backdrop of the raging AIDS.
In a completely different register, Arnaud Desplechin is seeking the Palme d'Or with
Brother and Sister,
a family drama with a brother and a sister in long-term conflict reunited by the death of their parents.
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Claire Denis, already rewarded in February for
With love and hard
at the Berlinale, returns with
Stars at noon
a
"film of expectation, atmosphere, on the edge of the diplomatic thriller",
describes Thierry Frémaux.
The last French film selected,
A Little Brother
by Léonor Serraille, tells the story of a family of immigrants from the late 1980s to the present day in the Paris suburbs.
But the other selections of the Cannes Film Festival are not left out with the film
Rodéo
by Lola Quivoron which competes for Un certain regard,
Le Parfum vert
by Nicolas Pariser present at the Directors' Fortnight and
Our ceremonies
by Simon Rieth which is making a place for itself. Critics' Week.
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All chaired by Vincent Lindon, the first French actor to play this role since Isabelle Hupert in 2009. He succeeds American director Spike Lee.
César winner best actor in 2016 for his role in the film
La Loi du marché
, the Frenchman is a regular on the Croisette.
In 2015, he won the prize for male interpretation for this same film and in 2021, he starred in
Titanium
by Julia Ducournau, which won the Palme d'or.
Back to normal
Patrick Fabre, artistic director of the Saint-Jean-de-Luz Festival, gave the reasons for this French flowering at Le
Parisien
,
“we are still in the aftermath of the Covid, there are still a lot of films on the shelves, we are purging stocks."
The aid for production and distribution which continued during the pandemic, therefore “resulted in an outbreak of French filming”.
According to
Le Parisien
, Patrick Fabre
“fears that the reverse side of the coin will begin next year, with fewer independent productions.”
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Justine Lévèque, artistic director of the Champs-Élysées Film Festival, interviewed by
Le Parisien
highlights another consequence of this avalanche of films from France:
"Yes, there are a lot of French films selected at Cannes, but there are there are also very many who were not selected.”
Which also means that the festivals to come will also be faced with a large number of French productions.
The 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival is that of a return to normality after two years of pandemic, where the 2020 edition had to be canceled and that of 2021 postponed to July with many restrictions.