The jury of the Cannes Film Festival is due to hand over its awards on Saturday evening, including the famous Palme d'Or.
With "Les Olympiades", Jacques Audiard can claim a new Palme after the one obtained in 2015 for Dheepan.
Léa Seydoux and Virginie Efira, they will be serious candidates for the price of female interpretation.
Who will be the big winners of the evening?
On Saturday evening, during the closing ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival, the jury chaired by American filmmaker Spike Lee will present the long-awaited awards, first of which is the prestigious Palme d'Or.
And this year, among the 24 films in official competition, no favorite stands out clearly.
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The last French Palme d'Or dates back to 2015, for the film
Dheepan
, directed by Jacques Audiard. The director is in the running again this year with
The Olympics
, which follows the amorous tribulations of four thirty-something more comfortable flirting behind their screens than during the first date. Mixity, diversity, gender, shot in a magnificent black and white ... She is a serious candidate for the supreme award. For the prize for female interpretation, Léa Seydoux has every chance. The actress is featured in three films from the selection:
The French Dispatch
,
L'Histoire de ma femme
,
France
.
But the competition is tough, with notably in front of her Virginie Efira, in the new film by Paul Verhoeven,
Benedetta
.
Will the radicality of Titanium seduce the jury?
We must also not forget
Titane
, by Julia Ducournau, which begins with the story of a young woman eager for violence and attracted by titanium, then slips into a rambling again on gender, body, family ties. The form could speak to the jury, in particular to Mylène Farmer. We can also cite
Everything happened well
, by François Ozon, in which André Dussolier plays an old man who calls for an assisted suicide, and can claim an interpretation prize, or the
fracture,
by Catherine Corsini, on a night in an emergency department in the midst of the yellow vests crisis, and
High and strong
, by Nabil Ayouch, who films a year of hip hop lessons in a cultural center in Casablanca. This year again, France presented a great diversity of films rooted in their time. It remains to be seen whether the jury will have been sensitive to it.