The news has combined the past and the present on the screens

• The problems of the world came to Deauville this weekend.

• Jesse Eisenberg and Lucy Boynton, honored by the festival, were very concerned.

• French directors also tackled social issues.

The Deauville Festival focused on world issues this weekend.

American and French films like the stars present preferred to talk about the harsh reality of life than to play on glitter.

From the opening film,

by Phillys Nagy, the subject of abortion was on the table, or rather on the screen.

It was impossible not to be moved by the fight of these women of the 1960s fighting for their rights when these are severely threatened in present-day America.

The importance of cinema

Lucy Boynton, 28, heroine of

and the series The Politician attended the session after receiving the “New Hollywood” award, celebrating the most promising stars of the moment.

“A film like Call Jane touches me because it shows what we have lost, confides the young woman to

.

Cinema's mission is to entertain but also to make people think without asserting opinions and truths in a peremptory way.

Art can gently change mentalities.

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Jesse Eisenberg, to whom the festival pays tribute when he has just signed his first film,

, also speaks of activism when he directs Julianne Moore as an activist defending battered women, even if it means neglecting her family and her quarrel with his son tired of his fight.

The French too

For several years, Deauville has also opened up to French cinema with previews.

The filmmakers have also looked at society through genre cinema.

In

, Guillaume Nicloux tries his hand at horror film by locking up the inhabitants of a building isolated by a threatening fog.

Under cover of a horror film, he speaks of “living together” by showing how racism quickly takes precedence over solidarity.

It was while making a period film that Jimmy Laporal-Trésor also evoked racism and xenophobia with

, an original work about a group of young people from housing estates confronted with skinheads in the 1980s. things have not evolved in the right direction today.

I would like the spectators to make a parallel between my film, ”explains the director to

s.

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