"The Olympics" laid bare by Jacques Audiard

• A boy and three girls experience complicated sentimental stories in "Les Olympiades" by Jacques Audiard.

• The director of "Deephan" delivers a romantic comedy that is lighter than his previous films.

• Charismatic performers feed this solar tale shot in the 13th arrondissement of Paris.

The film did not win the Palme d'Or as we predicted at Cannes last July, but

by Jacques Audiard is nonetheless very sexy.

“I wanted to make a solar film that would get out of the gloom created by the pandemic,” the filmmaker told

.

It succeeded.

The romantic crossovers between three girls and a boy in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, which gives its title, are adapted from three new graphics by Adrian Tomine, which the filmmaker has adapted with Céline Sciamma and Léa Mysius.

“I wanted to have a point of view of women younger than me on the characters, he specifies.

That's why I called on them to collaborate on the script.

They also brought their experience as filmmakers.

"

Of the body and the heart

Because there is cinema in

.

The images of the cinematographer Paul Guilhaume envelop the bodies in a black and white which magnifies them while each of the thirty-something tries to compose with his desires.

"I speak of integration in my film: young adults who already have experience of life explore a form of erotic frenzy which seems to me to be the prerogative of their generation", specifies Jacques Audiard.

Love is not absent, far from it, in the exchanges between characters who seek each other more than they think to find a soul mate.

Jacques Audiard had the good inspiration to find impeccable performers.

If we recognize Noémie Merland (

) and Jehnny Beth (seen as Sting's partner in

), the director reveals Lucy Zhang and Makita Samba, dazzling naturally.

“They represent Parisian diversity in what it offers that is rich and abundant,” explains the filmmaker.

After the dark

(Palme d'Or in 2015) and

, Jacques Audiard opens his heart and that of the spectator.

An Eric Rohmer 2.0.

It is a romantic comedy full of life that he signs with

in which he explores romantic relationships that pass through the bedroom before the protagonists get to know each other.

"In my generation, we practiced rather the opposite" laughs the director.

At 70 spring, Jacques Audiard seizes the spirit of the times as would do an Eric Rohmer of the new millennium.

We like to explore the Carte du Tendre with him.

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