Skin 2022: Vincent Lacoste, Virgin Efira, Adel Exarchopoulos in Two Weeks of Directors

Following the official selection and in anticipation of Critics ‘Week and Acid, the two-day Directors’ Choice presented the selection for the 54th edition this morning.

For the 2022 vintage – led by the last Paolo Moretti, who will leave the post of General Delegate at the end of the festival – the parallel section of the festival offers a very good line-up that combines well-known names for the festival. – Guests (Philippe Focon, Joao Pedro Rodriguez, Nicolas Parizer, Alice Vinocourt, Mia Hansen Love, Leah Misius by the way) and many new filmmakers. Because the directors’s two-day main mission is to support the first steps of female and male directors, this edition will feature the first time of 18 directors (three of the 24 titles are co-directors).

Expected stars include Leah Seidou, Virgin Ephira, Vincent Lacoste, Adele Exarchopoulos, Sandrine Cyberlen, but also Irish actress Paul Mescal, from the Revelation of the Normal People series. Also pay attention to Jesse Buckley (revealed by Wild Rose and most recently The Lost Daughter) alongside director Alex Garland, who was first selected in Cannes, along with Eux (Men), for a special screening.

The selection also gives pride of place to female directors, with 11 female directors, including Annie Erno’s first work! The author actually shot the film with his son, David Erno-Briot, Super 8 Years.

The director is always in the spotlight, with the Golden Coach being handed over to American Kelly Reichard this year. The filmmaker will also compete in the official selection, screening his 8th feature film.

We often celebrate “Strong existence of French cinema“, The most represented country this year.”Received 336 French feature films“, – pointed out Paolo Moretti, the two-day General Delegate. A strong presence that”Responds to the richness and vitality of French cinema“, He continued.

The final feature film from Asia will be announced soon and the number of films selected this year will be up to 22. The short films will be communicated next week.

Published this Tuesday, April 19, 2022, discover the official selection for the 54th edition of the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs:

Feature Films:

• Flight of Pietro Marcello (opening film)
• Le Parfum vert Nicolas Parizer (Closing Film)
• 1976 Manuela Martel (first feature film)
• El Agua Elena Lopez Riera (1st Feature Film)
• The Dam (Al-Sadd, السّد, Le Barrage) by Ali Cherry (first feature film)
• Super 8 years By Annie Erno and David Erno-Briot (First Feature)

Surprise with the first directorial announcement: novelist Annie Erno! For the first time, he is signing a feature film shot with his son, David Erno-Briot, Les Années Super 8, the author’s autobiographical documentary. “As is often the case in his works, here too he gives a universal dimension to a very personal work. Here we rely on unique material: their family films, shot in Super 8 in 1976-1981, are woven around images and new and elevated text, an intimate, social and political story.“Specifies the selection committee of the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs. For reference, the author Annie Erno has recently been the subject of adaptations of two films: Daniel Arbid’s Passion simple and Audrey Diwan’s L’Evénement, Lion d gold in Venice. 2021.

Five years later, the excellent first full-length film “Ava” starring Noah Abita and Lor Kalam, selected for Cannes Critics’ Week, director and screenwriter. Leah Mission Is present in the skin Five devilsHis second feature film, the start of which was delayed due to a pandemic and restriction. The director there is headed by Adele Exarchopoulos. According to the two-day committee, this is a “dazzling and mysterious” film whose “registration is about fiction” in which “Incandescent Adele Exarchopoulos“.

The brief description is as follows: Vicky, a strange and lonely little girl, has a gift: she can smell and reproduce the scent she has chosen, which she collects in carefully labeled jars. He secretly removed the scent from his mother, Joan, to whom he has a mad and exclusive, almost sickly love. One day Julia, her father’s sister, invades their lives. Vicky begins to develop her scent. He is then transported to dark and magical memories where he discovers the secrets of his village, family and his own existence.

Bergman Island a year after taking part in the official selection last year, Mia Hansen Love Has already returned to the cruise, with good morning. The film stars Leah Seidou, Pascal Gregor, Nicole Garcia and Melville Pupa. We follow Sandra, a young mother who is raising her daughter alone, who often visits her ailing father, George. “When he and his family start a course of obstacles to cure him, Sandra meets Clement, a long-lost friend … a film presented by a two-week selection committee of directors.”A delicate chronicle of a young woman’s daily life that rediscovers the taste of life“, with”Modesty and elegance on highly contemporary issues“.

• Owen Klein Funny Pages (Feature 1)
• Falcon Lake by Charlotte Le Bon (1st Feature)

After trying her hand at directing the short film “Talents Adami” for Operation (Judith Hotel), Charlotte Le Bonnie switched to feature films, adapting Bastien Vives’s comics very freely. Დa (Custerman Publishing), co-written by François Shock. The film is titled Lake Falcon Combines Joseph Engel (a young actor who has been spotted in the films of Louis Garrel, The Faithful Man, and the Crusades), Arthur Iguall, Sarah Monpet, Monia Chokri, and Carine Gontier Heindman. “A story of love and ghosts, both gentle and cruel“According to two days.

• Fogo-Fatuo (Will-o’-the-Wisp, Wisp) Joao Pedro Rodriguez
• Creatures of God by Anna Rose Holmer and Saella Davis
• Harkis by Philip Focon
• Men (they) Alex Garland (special show)

After Ex Machina and Annihilation, Alex Garland returns with him Them (Men), a film titled “Sky-hot and visible“, Which combines Jesse Buckley Rory Kinnear and Pappa Essed. This is Cannes’s first choice. It will become a nightmare for the heroine.

• Dmitro Sukholitik-Sobchuk Pamphyry (1 Feature Film)
• The Man (Un Varon) by Fabian Hernandez (first feature film)
• Revisiting Paris by Alice Vinocour

4th feature film for Alice Vinocour. After Augustine, Maryland and Proxima, director and screenwriter runs in astronaut costume with Eva Green See Paris again. It combines in particular Virgin Efira, Benoit Magimel and Gregor Colin. Remind you that the mistress of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Virgin Efira Festival is also expected.

Directors’ Monday will be held from May 18 to 27, 2022.

Check out the transcript of the 2022 Selection Announcement Press Conference: