Cannes 2022: Critics’ Week Choice with Blanche Garden, Julianne Moore and Jesse Eisenberg

The Cannes Parallel section, dedicated to the first and second films that revealed the main names of cinema, La Semaine de la Critique is back in its 61st edition, which will be held in Cannes from 18 to 26 May.

Today, Ava Kahen, General Delegate of this section, will present her rich and promising program, in which we especially meet Blanche Gardin, Julianne Moore, Jesse Eisenberg, Duna Bae, Finn Wolfhard, Laurent Lafitte, Karim Leclus or Paul Mess. The star of normal people.

The jury for this 61st edition of Critics’ Week will be led by Cauter Ben Hania, a Tunisian director who studied at Cannes ACID and Un Certain Regard and is known for his films Le Challat de Tunis, La Belle et la Meute or. Again the man who sold his skin.

The Critics’ Week Grand Prix, the French Touch Prize, the Louis Roderer Foundation Announcement Prize and the Leitz Ciné Discovery Prize for short films, will be directed by a Franco-Greek actor and directed by Labed, an Icelandic director by Benedict. Erlingson, Belgian filmmaker Benoit Debbie and journalist-programmer Hu Mun Jung, General Delegate for the Busan Film Festival in South Korea.

11 feature films were selected, including 9 first and 2 second films and 10 short films. The elevated poster for this 61st edition of La Semaine de la Critique, signed by Belgian photographer Charlotte Abramou, is a body projection of the photographer from Chloe Mazlo’s film Sous le Ciel d’Alice, chosen for Semaine de. Critics la Critique 2020.

Feature films

Movie opening:

When you finish saving the world by Jesse Eisenberg

Jesse Eisenberg’s first feature film, which was screened at the Sundance Film Festival When You Finish Surviving the World, was selected as the opening film of Critics’ Week.

The action film of Julianne Moore and Finn Wolfhardt (Stranger Things) spans three decades and follows three family members: Nathan, a young man who discovers fatherhood, Rachel, a student who seeks his place in the world and his romantic relationship, and Ziggy, a teenager who seeks Its origin …

In the competition:

• After the Sun by Charlotte Wales

“Normal People” star Paul Mescal plays “After the Sun” by Charlotte Wales. This film tells the story of how Sophie discusses moments of shared joy and intimate nostalgia for the holidays she spent with her father twenty years ago. Memories, real and imaginary, fill the gap between the recordings with his miniDV as he tries to reconcile a father he knew and a man he did not know.

• Drinking Emmanuel Nicot

Simon Riet’s first feature film, Our Ceremonies, tells the story of brotherhood as another. Royan, 2011. When summer ends on a fiery day, two young brothers, Tony and Noah, play a game of death and chance … until an accident that changes their lives forever. Ten years later and now adults, they return to Royan and meet Cassandra, a childhood sweetheart. But the brothers have been hiding a secret all this time …

Special sessions:

Celine Devot’s new film, which was already in Cannes, combines Blanche Garden and Laurent Lafitte. Everyone has always loved Jana. Today he hates himself. Over-indebted should go to Lisbon and sell the apartment of a deceased mother a year earlier. At the airport, he ran into Jean, a whimsical and somewhat intrusive former high school friend.

After Ni Le Ciel Ni La Terre and Les Indes Galantes, Clement Cogitore returns with a golden gut worn by Karim Leklu. Ramses, 35, practices divination at the Golden Gut in Paris. A clever manipulator and a bit of a poet on the edges has created a solid consolation business. The arrival of children from the streets of Tangier, as dangerous as it is, upsets the balance of his business and the whole neighborhood. Until the day when Ramses will have a real vision.

Close movie:

By Doona Bae, Next Sohee follows a high school student who chooses practical vocational training. Hoping to get a good job, he starts training at a call center, but he has to deal with the strong pressures of this fierce business. This situation is very difficult for a high school student who has died from it. Inspector O. Yu-jin, who has something in common with Sohe, leads the case and begins to trace the cause of his death.

Course films

In the competition:

• Manta Ray By Anton Bialas

• Cuerdas By Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren

• Nice to meet you here By Robert-Jonathan Koer

• On the throne of Xerxes By Evi Kalogiropoulos

• Swan in the center By Iris Chasein

• I was not made to love her By Anna Fernandez de Paco

Special sessions:

• Despicable By Ian Gonzalez

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