The race for the Golden Bear launched this Thursday in Berlin, the French in the spotlight

It's off to the Berlin film festival, and as often French cinema has a place of choice.

The race for the prestigious Golden Bear is launched this Thursday with a first film in competition by François Ozon.

After an ersatz festival, only via the Internet in 2021, the Berlinale is back with red carpets, official screenings and an international jury, chaired by the great American name in thriller Night Shyamalan (

,

), who will debate “face-to-face ".

Eighteen films are in competition until the February 16 ceremony.

Absence of the Americans

François Ozon therefore opens the ball, as a regular at this event where he received the Grand Jury Prize in 2019 for

.

The most eclectic Stakhanovist of French cinema promises a beautiful story of devouring passion and a (self) portrait of a filmmaker, through a rereading

, the work of one of his models, the German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died forty years ago.

The presence in the credits of Isabelle Adjani, brings a modest touch of glamor to the beginning of the festival which is likely to be lacking: the big American productions and their processions of stars will be largely lacking in Berlin where the number of contaminations linked to the Omicron variant of Covid-19 is at its highest.

A film about the Bataclan attack

Among the other films in the running to succeed the Golden Bear 2021, awarded to the Romanian Radu Jude, a promotion of eighteen filmmakers including seven directors.

The Berlinale finds in competition well-known personalities, sometimes already awarded, like the Italian veteran Paolo Taviani, 90, with

, his first film since the death of his brother and lifelong sidekick, Vittorio.

They had together won the Golden Bear ten years ago.

The presentation of the first feature film around the attacks of November 13 in Paris, centered on a story by a survivor of the Bataclan, will necessarily be scrutinized.

is signed by the Spaniard Isaki Lacuesta, with the Argentinian Nahuel Perez Biscayart and the French Noémie Merlant.

Claire Denis and Christine Angot four hands

The filmmaker Claire Denis will be in competition for the first time, for a film co-written with the author Christine Angot (

) and, in general, French cinema and actors (Juliette Binoche at Claire Denis, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Emmanuelle Beart at Mikhaël Hers…) will be well represented.

Outside the official competition, the Berlinale awaits the sulphurous king of the Italian "giallo" Dario Argento for a new film

, where he once again directs his daughter Asia, or the latest absurd comedy by Frenchman Quentin Dupieux,

.

French actress Isabelle Huppert is due to receive an honorary Golden Bear for her entire career.

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