The 46th edition of the American Festival of Deauville will have to do without the main stakeholders, deprived of travel to Europe due to the coronavirus crisis.
To compensate for this absence, the director of the festival, Bruno Barbe, has chosen to add to its programming some French films, which should have been presented in Cannes last spring.
The Deauville American Film Festival opened on Friday for ten days, but without the Americans, since trips between France and the United States are still interrupted due to the health crisis.
Nine films, deprived of presentation in Cannes because of the Covid-19, are also part of the programming, with the hope of giving the "signal" of a return of the spectators in theaters.
Among the most anticipated films of this 46th edition, let
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Kajillionaire
, the story of parents who train their daughter to defraud her neighbor,
Uncle Frank
on the daily life of a professor of literature who will have to come out in the America in the 1970s, or even
First Cow
on a 19th century cake smuggling in Oregon.
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But to liven up his red carpet, for lack of American stars, the director general Bruno Barbe had an idea: to invite selected French films to Cannes.
“I wanted to unite around me all the hopes of showing films,” he explains to Europe 1. “I invited the Cannes Film Festival so that the party could be complete. Without a film, cinema cannot They don't exist. We have to see them, show them. It's the role of a festival like Deauville to host all the cinemas. "
This is how Maïwenn will present her new film,
ADN
, carried by Fanny Ardent.
Lucas Belvaux will unveil
Des Hommes
with Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Frot and Jean-Pierre Daroussin.
Next weekend, the eagerly awaited
How I became a superhero
, played by Pio Marmaï and Benoît Poelvoorde, will close the festival.