No, Jacques Audiard is not a dead director and he wants to let it be known.
Particularly at a press conference on the question of whether he considered
The Olympics
as a rebirth.
"So for you I'm dead?"
»Jacques Audiard questioned with humor.
Before adding: “I will try to consider all my films as firsts.
It will be my hallmark and it's always better than specializing in the latest movies.
“Later one-on-one, Jacques Audiard confided to
20 Minutes
his joy in coming back to Cannes to present this cruel and funny film about thirty-something in search of sex and tenderness.
“I hope it gives festival-goers some naughty ideas,” he added.
If the movie makes them want sex, that's fine with me.
"
Radiant Noémie Merlant
Noémie Merlant was more radiant than ever to evoke
Les Olympiades
by Jacques Audiard in which she plays a young woman who rediscovers desire.
After
Portrait of the young girl on fire
by Céline Sciamma, she finds a role sparkling with freedom.
“Cannes is a festival open to all senses of the term,” she told
20 Minutes
.
And this film which celebrates sex in all its diversity, without taboos or guilt, is perfectly in its place.
"
Absent Léa Seydoux
The craziest rumors have spread about a possible secret arrival of Léa Seydoux, diagnosed positive for Covid last weekend.
And then no, we had to resolve it, even if she is luminous as an object of desire in
The Story of My Wife
by Idilko Enyedi, in the role of a woman who finds herself married to a sea captain merchant following a bet.
"It was a collective work to which Léa contributed so much that we are terribly sad that she cannot present the film with us", regretted the Hungarian director.
Winner of the Camera d'Or in 1989, Idilko Enyedi could be rewarded for this new romantic film with breathtaking images.
Mathieu Amalric encumbered
He climbed the steps as an actor for
The French Dispatch
by Wes Anderson.
But Mathieu Amalric also presented his own film
Serre-moi fort
, in the Cannes Premieres section.
"It seems to be the story of a woman who is leaving" announces the press kit of this beautiful, spellbinding film whose press conference did not take place, the actor-director having been caught in traffic jams .
Simon Rex well equipped
Sean Baker, director of the excellent
The Florida Project
, is back on the Croisette with the equally successful
Red Rocket
.
This story of a porn actor who returns to squat with his ex-wife is all the more successful as the former MTV host Simon Rex delivers a stunning performance by making this irresponsible loser sympathetic.
The actor, however, refused to lift the veil on the stage where he galloped naked in a city street.
"I prefer to keep it a secret," he said when asked if he had a prosthesis.
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Le Fil de Cannes (8/10): Valérie Lemercier, Gilles Lellouche and Asghar Farhadi echoing on the Croisette
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Le Fil de Cannes (7/10): Bill Murray, Noomi Rapace and “Fast & Furious 9” fans echoed on the Croisette
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