the 10 directors who will make French cinema shine

the 10 directors who will make French cinema shine
the 10 directors who will make French cinema shine

From left to right: Gilles Lellouche, Lætitia Dosch, Quentin Dupieux and Jessica Palud.
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Big names, unknowns, regulars, novices… Featured in the official competition or in parallel sections, some of them have a real chance of finding themselves on the winners of the 2024 edition.

Gilles Lellouche, for Love phew

Drowned six years ago under a deluge of praise for his formidable Great Bath, Gilles Lellouche is back on the Croisette with an even more ambitious and promising (long) film. A story of crazy, feverish, fiery (and violent, we are assured) love at the end of the 1980s. Nolds And boomers are impatiently awaiting the soundtrack since it is a teen movie coupled with a musical comedy with a bit of dancing. Adèle Exarchopoulos and François Civil share the poster, surrounded by several swords of French cinema.

In competition / In theaters October 16.

Christophe Honoré, for Marcello Mio

What is the weight of heritage when you are an actress and your parents are two icons of the 7e art ? This is the question that Christophe Honoré asks in this comedy which starts from a preposterous idea – that of transforming Chiara Mastroianni into his father – and mixes reality with fiction with panache. While the girl joyfully embarks on an apparent identity delirium, her loved ones (Deneuve, Biolay, Poupaud) and her partners…

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