• “Les Olympiades” is the title of Jacques Audiard's new film, but also a district of the 13th arrondissement of Paris.

  • The director explores the loves of a little lost Parisian youth.

  • The film brought a breath of freshness and sensuality to the competition and could earn the filmmaker a second Palme d'Or after “Dheepan”.

Jacques Audiard is at home in Cannes.

And not just because he's been there six times already and won the Jury Prize in 2009 for

A Prophet

and the Palme d'Or in 2015 for

Dheepan

.

The filmmaker brought a breath of freedom and desire to the

Les Olympiades

festival

, a sensual and cruel film filmed in superb black and white.

“I chose to shoot at the Olympiades, a district of the 13th arrondissement of Paris, because what I lived there for a long time, told

20 Minutes

.

It is a place that is constantly evolving, one of the few in Paris that does not give the impression of filming in a museum.

The spectator lets himself be drawn into this setting conducive to the games of love and chance.

Not yet classified

Everything is fresh and alive in these love stories of young people a little lost, trying to compose between their impulses and their feelings.

We can think that the jury will be carried away by this column where diversity is presented as obvious and where multiculturalism enriches souls and hearts.

“We often show the downgraded in the cinema,” specifies Jacques Audiard.

I wanted to show young people who are not yet classified, who have diplomas but have not yet found their place in society.

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Our articles on Cannes are here

Noémie Merlant, back in Cannes after

Portrait of the Girl on Fire

by Céline Sciamma, is the best-known actress in an impeccable star-seed cast.

"I wanted youth" jokes Jacques Audiard.

His virtuosity to make us breathe the air of the times.

We wouldn't be surprised if Spike Lee found his youth again by visiting the Olympics.

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