While we found the share of female filmmakers in the race for the Palme d’or of 75and Cannes Film Festival, reduced so far to the American Reichardt (Show-Up), to the Franco-Italian Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (almond trees) and Frenchwoman Claire Denis (Stars at Noon), the selection team added two names Thursday among their rank.
First of all, that of the Frenchwoman Léonor Serraille, winner of the Caméra d’or in 2017 for Young woman. Here it is in competition with A little brotherwhich discusses the arrival in France of an African woman with her two sons in the late 1980s.
Then, that of the Belgian Charlotte Vandermeersch, who co-directs with Felix Van Groeningen The mountain otto, a France-Belgium production adapted from the novel by Paolo Cognetti (2017 Medici Prize), a story of family, friendship and love of the mountains. This is the third Belgian film in competition this year, after Tori and Lokita, of the Dardenne brothers, and Closeby Lukas Dhont.
Torment on the Islands, the work of Spaniard Albert Serra against a backdrop of literature and love affairs (with Benoît Magimel and Sergi López), is also added to the menu of the race. The filmmaker had directed in 2016 the much noticed The death of Louis XIV.
On the other hand, it is at Cannes Première that three new French films will be screened: Chronicle of a temporary liaisonby Emmanuel Mouret; The night of 12, by Dominik Moll; and Don Juanby Serge Bozon.
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