“Seven years is the age of reason but I'm not sure that CanneSéries wants to be reasonable,
” Benoît Louvet, president of the event, immediately announced this morning during the presentation of this new edition to the press.
“
Our fundamentals are glamour, internationality and the demands of the selection
,” added Albin Lewi, artistic director.
And, scheduled from April 5 to 10, the festival remains true to its DNA: stars on the pink carpet, previews of major spectacle series and, in competition, a more author-oriented programming that draws from the four corners of global production (27 series selected out of some 300 eligible, representing 19 countries).
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TV program this evening: our selection of the day
Despite the impact of strikes in Hollywood, which make actors rarely available due to very strict filming schedules to catch up, the Riviera event, which welcomed Rachel Weisz and Sarah Michelle Gellar last year, will be full of stars.
Expected at the top of the steps are Michael Douglas, Kyle MacLachlan, Jamel, Pierre Niney, Nolwenn Leroy, Daniel Brühl, Jason Priestley and many others.
Outside of competition, the heavyweights are jostling each other.
Before arriving on Canal + after
La Fièvre
,
Terminal,
the sitcom by Jamel Debbouze about the employees of a low-cost airline with Ramzy Bedia, Bérangère McNeese, Tristan Lopin and Camille Chamoux will open CanneSéries on the 5th. Pierre Niney will present his group of friends from
Fiasco
.
The Netflix comedy, announced for April 30, depicts the adventures of a catastrophic shooting.
Géraldine Nakache, Pascal Demolon and François Civil participate.
Cannes will be the launch pad for the adaptation for Prime Video of the video game
Fall Out
, orchestrated by connoisseur Jonathan Nolan (the brother of the director of
Oppenheimer,
who worked on
Westworld
).
Its actors will be in the spotlight.
Seen in Yellowjackets, Ella Purnell will be the winner of the
Madame Figaro
Rising Star Award.
His partner Kyle MacLachlan, the iconic star of
Twin Peaks
and David Lynch's
Dune
, will be honored with an Icon Award.
Biographical series will also be highlighted.
Disney + will unveil its portrait of Karl Lagerfeld, now titled
Becoming Karl Lagerfeld
and which tells the story of the couturier's rise in Seventies Paris.
Long before the appearance of the famous ponytail!
Polyglot German actor Daniel Brühl (
Goodbye Lenin!
) is leading the project alongside Agnès Jaoui and the astonishing Théodore Pellerin.
Franklin
, a reconstruction for Apple TV + of the Parisian years of the father of the American Revolution Benjamin Franklin, offers a very good role to Michael Douglas who plays opposite French actors Ludivine Sagnier, Thibault de Montalembert and, once again, Théodore Pellerin.
Pages of Brazilian and Serbian history
The eight series of the official competition are more specialized.
No English, French or Israeli productions.
But two new territories are appearing: China with the sensual and loving fable
To The Wonder
and Brazil with
Living On A Razor's Edge
, a vibrant portrait of the activist Herbert de Souza, supporter of agrarian reform and opponent of dictatorship in Brazil in the 70s, and victim like so many other hemophiliacs of contaminated blood.
The German family series
Zweiflers
will follow a Jewish family at the head of a delicatessen, where the different aspirations between the young and old generation cause a lot of friction.
The Serbian thriller
Operation Saber
delves into the anti-mafia fight that bloodied the country in the early 2000s.
Fantasy and darkness
Belgian creation,
Moresnet
takes you to more fantastic shores.
After the death of his father, Ben returns to his hometown of Moresnet.
With his friends, he unearths a time capsule that the group had buried a quarter of a century earlier.
Inside, they find Ben's brother's diary which lists their names and prophesies that they will all die in the coming weeks.
How to escape this fate?
On the bill is the fascinating German actress from
The Teachers' Room
Leonie Benesch.
In
Dark Horse
, an unstable mother and her daughter, united in a toxic relationship, rush from Asia to settle in the Danish countryside.
The proximity of horses allows the teenager to have access to ketamine which she quickly distributes to her friends.
More crazy proposals
In a crazier register, the Spanish series
This Is Not Sweden
attacks caring parenting in a corrosive way.
The artistic director of CanneSéries saw a lot of resemblance with the uneasy
The Curse
where Emma Stone shone.
A Norwegian postapocalyptic comedy,
Dumbsday
depicts humanity struck by a disease that makes people stupid.
The only hope for a cure lies in a group of broken arms, spared from evil, but not really lights!
The jury which will decide between them will be announced a little later.
Meetings are also planned.
Festival-goers will be able to attend a debate around the iconic sitcom
Madame est servie
,
discover the TF1 detective series
Brocéliande
, which stars Nolwenn Leroy.
Beverly Hills star Jason Priestley will present his crime comedy
Wild Cards.
Bertrand Usclat presenter of the opening ceremony
The section devoted to documentaries has five candidates who will be evaluated by a jury, chaired by Ovidie.
Dale the Infiltrator
tells the story of an American pastor, also a police sergeant, in the fight against drug trafficking.
DJ Mehdi: Made in France
by Thibault de Longueville looks back on the destiny of the pioneer of hip-hop and electro, who died too soon.
Hard To Swallow
follows Nigerian chef Tunde Wey on his journeys.
Being a teenager
chronicles five years in the life of a group of young Canadians.
Dutch production
Hidden
explores the world of disinformation and sabotage
The opening and closing ceremonies will be broadcast unencrypted on Canal +, an early partner of the event.
The first will be presented by Bertrand Usclat.
“
I borrowed a lot of codes from the series to prepare them, but also my mother's Canal + codes.
I'm going to refer to series that I like like
The Bureau of Legends
or
Game of Thrones,
but with a little less death,
joked the comedian.
I will also put myself into this ceremony, a little egocentrism is necessary!
Especially since it is an honor to be on the prestigious stage of the Palais des Festivals in Cannes which hosts legendary events like the NRJ Music Awards every year!
», he joked again in conclusion.