With multi-award-winning films and previews, the French Film Festival is coming

Numbers like Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais, Louis Malle oh Francois Truffaut years ago they sowed an indelible seed in french cinema which makes it unique in the world. In turn, they have a huge, very diverse and prolific production. In 2021 alone, 340 films were made.

In any case, despite the advancement of the platforms, it is still difficult for many of these productions to reach our country, for this reason, whenever the possibility of seeing it arises, it is one of the most most popular in the film community.

“Since the pandemic, it has become increasingly difficult for our cinema, as for all cinemas on the planet, to reach the big screens and stay there. It seemed to us an anomaly that Argentina, a country so cinephile, so curious about what comes from the four horizons, does not have a French film festival. We have therefore decided to offer them with the Festival a journey into the diversity of contemporary French cinema”, he commented . Antoine SebireRegional Attaché of Audiovisual Cooperation of the French Institute of Argentina.

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He French Film Festival will develop in the Cinepolis Recoleta from March 16 to 22 and will exhibit the highest audiovisual references, with films such as the night of the crimeof Dominique Mollwho swept the last Caesar, it is a thriller based on the true story of the murder of a young woman. The detective Yohan Vives he has just been promoted to the post of brigade leader, after several years of service. A few days later, Clara, a 21-year-old girl, was burned alive by a hooded man as she was returning home. The audios and testimonies lead the investigation to interview a gallery of men who have had contact with the victim lately: boyfriends, ex-boyfriends, a stalker, all with the same pattern of violent behavior and abusive, but without any concrete evidence that incriminates them. This film won the award for best film, direction, actor in a supporting role. Actor, Sound and Adapted Screenplay Revelation.

Another of the gems of this edition is La traviata, my brothers and meof Yohan Manca, which centers on the story of Nour, a 14-year-old boy who lives with his older brothers and his mother, who is in a coma. In the midst of his misadventures, he meets Sarah, a young opera singer who offers him new horizons through opera.

For its part, sofa businessof Manele Labid, brings a dramatic comedy where its protagonist opens a psychological clinic in his native Tunisia and ends up with a varied list of patients. Along the same lines, there is also the jokeof Nicolas Bedos which surprises with a film full of entanglements and love conflicts, which marks the return to the big screen of the famous actress Isabelle Adjani who plays a cinematic glory that financially supports Adriel, the protagonist. This is a dancer whose career ended after suffering an accident. In this future, he will meet Margot, a fascinating creature who lives on sentimental deception and manipulation.

With a more documentary side is Simone, the woman of the centuryof Olivier Dahan is a biopic about Simone Veil, former President of the European Parliament and survivor of the Holocaust. It shows his childhood, his political fight, his dramas. An epic and intimate portrait of a woman with an atypical life, who marked her time. He received two Cesars for Best Costume Design and Best Art Direction.

For theater lovers, they will be able to enjoy, on the one hand, Kompromat: the Russian fileof Jerome Hall, deals with the spectacular escape of a French diplomat from Siberia. The intellectual will have to become a man of action to escape his destiny. On the other hand, it is Memories of Parisof Alice Winocourtis an award-winning drama in the Cannes film festival and awarded in the Caesar for Best Actress for Virginie Efira. She plays Mia, the victim of a bomb attack in a Parisian bar who, three months later, is still unable to lead a normal life and only remembers snippets of this event.

Virginie Efira will surprise again as a multifaceted actress in other people’s childrenof Rebecca Zlotowski. She plays Rachel, a 40-year-old childless woman who completely changes her idyllic reality when she falls in love with Ali, and begins to become attached to Leila, her 4-year-old daughter. She dresses her, takes care of her and loves her as if she were her daughter. This drama seeks to reflect on motherhood, sisterhood, and the mandates women must be locked into.

The triumphof Emmanuel Courcol, shows the more social side of French comedy, where Etienne, a theater teacher from a prison who tries to make a play against all odds. Gather an unlikely group of inmates to act out the famous play Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot. When he gets permission to get out of prison with his colorful troupe of actors, Etienne finally has a chance to prosper.

To pay homage to the great Jean-Luc Godardwho died last September, will be screened Two or three things I know about her. The film centers on Juliette, a married woman with two children who works as a housewife by day and a prostitute by night. we will see how Godard He makes a sort of theatrical documentary about the lives, feelings, people and characters that populate the so-called new Paris of the 1960s.

This time, we see it on the big screen. Vortexby the famous Argentinian director based in France, gaspar noah, which in this strip breaks away from the formats she had done to tell a more intimate and somewhat heartbreaking story. It is a portrait of old age, of an elderly couple who say goodbye little by little and she has Alzheimer’s disease, played by the greats Dario Argento and Françoise Lebrun. It tries to reflect the finiteness of life and how we are just moments.

There will also be an entertainment area with Calamityof Remi Chaye. Set in the United States in the mid-1800s, it freely reenacts the legend of Martha Jane Canary. Of an aesthetic beauty that marks a continuity of the director with his previous film The roof of the world (2017). An adventure full of dangers and encounters in which, step by step, we will get to know the mythical Calamity Jane.

* The French Film Festival will take place from March 16 to 22 at Cinépolis de Recoleta (Vicente López 2050, CABA). Tickets will cost $1,300 and can be purchased at the Web Of which.

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