Jacques Audiard is at home in Cannes. And not just because he’s been there six times already and won the Jury Prize in 2009 for A prophet and the Palme d’Or in 2015 for Dheepan. The filmmaker blew a wind of freedom and desire on the festival The Olympics, sensual and cruel film filmed in superb black and white.
“I chose to shoot at the Olympiades, a district of the 13th arrondissement of Paris, because what I lived there for a long time,” confided to 20 minutes. It is a place that is constantly evolving, one of the few in Paris that does not give the impression of filming in a museum. The spectator lets himself be drawn into this setting conducive to the games of love and chance.
Not yet classified
Everything is fresh and alive in these love stories of young people a little lost, trying to compose between their impulses and their feelings. We can imagine that the jury will be carried away by this column where diversity is presented as obvious and where multiculturalism enriches souls and hearts. “We often show people who are downgraded in the cinema,” specifies Jacques Audiard. I wanted to show young people who are not yet classified, who have diplomas but have not yet found their place in society. “
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Noémie Merlant, back in Cannes after Portrait of the girl on fire by Céline Sciamma, is the best-known actress in an impeccable star-seed cast. “I wanted youth” jokes Jacques Audiard. His virtuosity to make us breathe the air of the times. We wouldn’t be surprised if Spike Lee found his youth again by visiting the Olympics.