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Our review of The Return: Catherine Corsini takes Corsica by the root

2023-05-17T17:27:23.027Z

Highlights: The Board of Directors of the Festival de Cannes has selected Catherine Corsini's new film, The Return. An anonymous email sent in early April denouncing facts of "harassment, verbal and physical violence, humiliation and other behavior at least inappropriate" had sown doubt and trouble. While waiting for justice to do its work, the Festival has decided to include The Return in competition. A brief prologue shows Khedidja (Aïssatou Diallo Sagna, the caregiver of La Fracture, César for the best...)


IN COMPETITION - After being the subject of controversy before the festival, the director imposes herself from the first day with a film of flesh and nerves.


Catherine Corsini has come a long way. The Board of Directors of the Festival de Cannes, after a week of investigation and reflection, has finally selected his new film, The Return. An anonymous email sent in early April denouncing facts of "harassment, verbal and physical violence, humiliation and other behavior at least inappropriate" had sown doubt and trouble.

Rumors and fantasies followed. Swinging water bottle, light car accident, reports of sexual harassment against a coach and a stuntman, scene of unsimulated masturbation between minors ... While waiting for justice to do its work, the Festival has decided to include The Return in competition.

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Two years after The Fracture, a bourgeois drama in a hospital in crisis against the backdrop of the "yellow vests" movement, Catherine Corsini is changing her tune. Direction Corsica. A brief prologue shows Khedidja (Aïssatou Diallo Sagna, the caregiver of La Fracture, César for the best...

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