The 2022 Cannes Film Festival adds 17 films to the selection of Louis Garrel, Emmanuel Moretti, Dominic Molly …

At a press conference on April 14 to select the 75th Cannes Film Festival, General Delegate Thierry Fremo promised a film-less edition after the 2021 vintage was slightly bottled due to the cancellation of “Cinema for Two Years”. Previous edition.

However, the announced “few additions” are more than expected, at least seventeen new feature films (!) Are included in the official selection, including three films (and two female directors) in the Palme d’Or competition.

Our editorial office presents these works, which will open on the cruise from 17 to 28 May.

Competition – Otto Montan of Charlotte Vandermersch and Felix van Greningen

After Lucas Dont and the Darden brothers Tory and Lokita, the third Belgian film to enter the competition. Inspired by the Italian bestseller Paolo Cognetti, Le Otto Montagne (or Les Huit Montagnes) tells the story of a young town kid and shepherd friendship we find twenty years later. Late when the first returns to childhood places and tries to reconcile with his past.

Drama directed by actress Charlotte Vandermer and My Pretty Boy and Alabama Monroe directed by Felix van Grenningen.

Competition – Leonor Serel’s younger brother

Five years after extracting the Golden Camera Root in Cannes for a young woman chosen for “certain views”, French woman Leonor Serai enters a competition with her younger brother, the story of a woman who arrives from Africa and settles with him on the outskirts of Paris. Two sons.

A portrait of the ordinary family we have been following for more than thirty years, led by actors Anabel Langron (La fine team), Ahmed Sila (revealed by Ascension) and Stephen Buck, also featured in the November casting without competition by Cedric Jimenez. .

Competition – Suffering on the Islands by Albert Serra

The third choice for Albert Serra, but this is the first in the official selection competition. Following the death of Louis XIV (Special Screening, 2016) and Freedom (Un Certain Regard, 2019), the Spanish filmmaker presents suffering on the islands.

On the Pacific island, a broken love story between a French diplomat and a Polynesian writer, amid racial tensions, political crisis and espionage. Starring Benoit Magimel, Sergi Lopez and Laura Pulvet.

Without competition – Louis Garrel innocent

A year after the introduction of the Crusades, Louis Garell is already back in the new section dedicated to environmental films without competition. He will present his fourth film, L’Innocent, at the Crossroads of Romantic Comedy and Gangster Films, starring Roshdi Zem, Anuk Greenberg, Naomi Merland, and Louis Garrel himself.

Playground: When Abel learns that his mother Sylvie, 60, is about to marry a man in prison, he panics. With the support of Clemens, his best friend, he will do everything he can to protect her. But meeting Michelle, her new father-in-law, may offer Abel new perspectives …

Cannes Premiere – Don Juan Serge Bozon

Tahar Rahim and Virgin Efira are going to put on a song! In this revision of Moliere’s classics, Don Juan is no longer the tempter we know, but the man obsessed with a lonely woman: the one who abandoned him on his wedding day. Despair forces him to see his ex-companion almost everywhere, which makes him even more upset when he is called upon to play the role of Don Juan.

Four years later Madame Heidi with Isabel Hooper, for which she was already viewing literary classics, so Serge Bozon returns with an amazing musical comedy that promises sparks between its two main actors.

CANNES PREMIÈRE – 12th Night by Dominic Mall

Having twice competed at the Cannes Film Festival with Harry, a friend who wishes you good luck, and with Lemming, Dominique Molly returns to the Cruise premiere section this time to present his new film based on the novel. 18.3 – One year in PJ.

The detective thriller, La Nuit du 12, tells the story of how Johann, the leader of a newly appointed gang in the Grenoble criminal brigade, gets upset by the investigation into the murder of a certain Clara, which will be a case for him like no other. In the casting we meet Bastien Bouillon, Bully Lanner and Anuk Greenberg.

CANNES PREMIÈRE – Chronicle of Emmanuel Moretti Temporary Relationship

After a missed appointment for the 2020 edition, which was canceled due to a pandemic and which was supposed to be part of The Things We Say, The Things We Do, Emmanuel More will try to seduce the competition with the Temporary Union Chronicle.

The title, which is both gentle and literary, follows the sequence of this researcher of love feelings in the film, which follows the meetings of two lovers Vincent McCain and Sandrine Cyberlen. The beginning of a great love affair with the festival or a short adventure for a film director?

Midnight Show – by Rebel Adil El Arbi and Bilal Fallah

From bad guys for life … to a cruise! The duet of Belgian filmmakers Adil El Arbi and Bilal Fallah is among the additions to the midnight screening where they will reveal Rebel. The film tells the story of Nasim, a 13-year-old Moroccan from the Molenbeek of the Muslim faith who is in the midst of an identity crisis after the death of his father. His mother Leila tries to stay away from her “badly gone” big brother Karim.

Special Show – Le Petit Nicolas, What Do We Expect for Happiness? By Amandin Fredon and Benjamin Masubri

After a few live action adaptations, Little Nicholas There will be a theme for the animated version for the cinema. A movie called Le Petit Nicolas – What Do We Expect for Happiness? And co-directors Amandine Fredon and Benjamin Masubri, will take on the mise en abyme form of creating this character.

Throughout the story, we can see that little Nicholas’s character enters the workshop of its creators and provokes them with humor. Sempe and Goskin tell him about their meeting, friendship, but also about their travels, secrets and childhood.

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