Jacques Audiard and Makita Samba, the Olympics of desire

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Jacques Audiard's “Les Olympiades” will be released tomorrow (Wednesday, November 3, 2021) in French cinemas.

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By: Jean-François Cadet Follow

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Jacques Audiard returns with a new black and white film which features connected thirty-somethings living in the little-known, and no less photogenic, district of Paris: Les Olympiades.

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If Roland Barthes had lived in the 21st century, we can bet that he would have watched this film with attention.

Because

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is a bit like “The fragments of a romantic discourse” in the era of porn, social networks and Internet dating applications.

With a cast of choice that gives pride of place to new talents.

As often with this filmmaker who made Tahar Rahim known with his film “A Prophet”, or who shot “Dheepan”, Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival with non-professional Sri Lankan actors.

In this new film, are reunited on the screen: Noémie Merlant who already has many films to her credit.

But also the very young Lucie Zhang who bursts the screen in what will remain as her first feature film, Jehnny Beth already better known and finally

accustomed to theater sets, both small and large screen, who impresses with its accuracy and who accompanies Jacques Audiard today.

All are the actors of a modern tale in a black and white Paris, in the heart of a little-known district, which gives its name to the film.

“Les Olympiades” will be released tomorrow (Wednesday November 3, 2021) on French screens.

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In Singapore, it has been 19 months since the 320,000 migrant workers who live in dormitories are still confined.

In this context of confinement, the voice of a worker nevertheless tries to emerge.

Zakir Hossain is originally from Bangladesh, and he never stopped writing poetry.

In the confined dormitories, his need for poetry is contagious since many other workers have joined his writing workshops, and have since tried to put words into their anxieties and disarray.

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