Cinema: two novels, two eras, France at the Venice Film Festival

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Director and novelist Audrey Diwan, September 6, 2021 at the Venice Film Festival.

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By: Sophie Torlotin Follow

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This year at the 78th Venice Film Festival, three French films are in competition.

Two of them are adaptations of novels:

Illusions perdues

by Balzac, and 

L'Événement

by Annie Ernaux.

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