How about getting ready to climb the steps… of your cinema! 48 hours before the closing ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival, cinemas all over France are getting ready to host some of the films screened on the Croisette in preview. Remember that four films have been released. Annette by Leos Carax with Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard, Benedetta by Paul Verhoeven with Virginie Effira, Bergman Island by Mia Hansen-Love with Tim Roth and Titanium by Julia Ducournau with one of the revelations of the festival, the astonishing Agathe Rousselle. Added to this is Tuoa’s Journal by Miguel Gomes presented at the Directors’ Fortnight. Each of these films, in very different genres, should find their audience, no doubt.
And others will follow: Drive my car by Ryusuke Hamaguchi on August 18, France by Bruno Dumont on August 25, Ahed’s knee by Nadav Lapid on September 15, Everything went well by François Ozon and Flag Day by Sean Penn on September 22, The Unquiet by Joachim Lafosse on October 6, Julie (in 12 chapters) by Joachim Trier on October 13, The French Dispatch by Wes Anderson on October 27, The Olympics by Jacques Audiard on November 3, High and loud by Nabil Ayouch on November 10, Petrov’s fever by Kirill Serebrennikov on December 1, Lingui by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun on December 8, A hero by Asghar Farhadi on December 22, My wife’s story by Ildiko Enyedi on January 12, 2022 …
Summer tours and red carpets rolled out
For those who do not have the patience to wait, cinemas organize previews or summer tours. So, Pathé and Gaumont roll out the red carpet for three days, from this Friday to Sunday, at the Pathé Opéra Premier in Paris, the Gaumonts in Rennes and Nantes, the Pathé Bellecour in Lyon and the Gaumont Wilson in Toulouse.
These cinemas will screen twelve films from the official selection this weekend: My brothers and me by Yohann Manca, In his lifetime by Emmanuelle Bercot, A hero by Asghar Farhadi and Tralala of the Larrieu brothers on Friday, Julie (in 12 chapters) by Joachim Trier, Tre Pianni by Nanni Moretti, The Olympics by Jacques Audiard and Deceptions by Arnaud Desplechin on Saturday, Everything went well by François Ozon, The divide by Catherine Corsini, The Unquiet by Joachim Lafosse and Ahed’s Knee by Nadav Lapid on Sunday.
On the side of the parallel sections, the films of the Directors’ fortnight will be picked up before their outings at
Images Forum in Paris, from August 26 to September 19, with in particular Ouistreham Emmanuel Carrère’s new film with Juliette Binoche (which will be officially released on January 12). And those of the
Critics’ Week are about to do their
tour, in Corsica, at the Cinémathèque de Porto Vecchio from July 20 to 24, at the Cinémathèque française in Paris from July 26 to August 1 and at the Les Variétés cinema in Marseille from September 7 to 12. So many meetings to make a canvas of the Cannes Film Festival.