Twenty-three feature films, good new stuff (with nine first films), and here we go! The 54and edition of the Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes parallel section, will take place from May 18 to 27. Its general delegate, Paolo Moretti, appointed in 2018, unveils, Tuesday April 19, his last selection, the board of directors of the Society of French directors (SRF), elected in September 2021, having announced its desire to “rethink in depth” the Fortnight, until “its name, its singularity and its strategic and militant place”. Questioned, during the press conference, on the meaning of this upcoming reform, the co-president of the SRF, Frédéric Farrucci, postponed the text explanation to a later date: “Let’s not spoil the pleasure of this beautiful selection”, he reacted. The name of the new general delegate could be announced after the Cannes Film Festival. Frédéric Farrucci also announced that the Carrosse d’or – a special Fortnight award – will be awarded this year to Kelly Reichardt, director of First Cow (2021), which revisits the founding myths of America with great political and aesthetic acumen.
The festivities will begin as they should with the opening film, Flightby the Italian Pietro Marcello, popular, musical and historical tale, freely inspired by the work Scarlet Sails (1923), by Alexandre Grine. Flightas a nod to the poster of this 54and editing, BlueFlight (“Blue Flight”), or a photo of Cecilia Paredes, where the silhouette of the Peruvian performer blends into a sky blue fabric printed with birds. Look for the artist, look for the woman: the female directors, precisely, will be numerous (eleven in total), with a few “ghosts” – Mia Hansen-Løve, Alice Winocour – and new signatures, such as the actress Charlotte Le Bon, who signs his first “long”: Falcon Lakean adaptation of the comic strip by Bastien Vivès, A sister (Casterman, 2017). Or, another surprise, the novelist Annie Ernaux, born in 1940, who signs with her son, David Ernaux, The Super-8 Yearsfamily archive montage film.
The directors will be numerous (eleven in total), with a few “returnees” – Mia Hansen-Løve, Alice Winocour – and new signatures
After having competed in official competition, in 2021, with Bergman IslandMia Hansen-Løve is therefore returning to the Fortnight (where she presented all is forgiven in 2007), with A nice morning (One Fine Morning) and its shock cast – Léa Seydoux, in the role of a woman taking care of her sick father (Pascal Greggory), as well as Melvil Poupaud and Nicole Garcia. Alice Winocour, whose first feature film, augustine (2012), had been selected for the Semaine de la critique, arrives at the Fortnight with See Paris again (Paris Memories): Virginie Efira plays an American journalist who finds herself in the French capital at the time of a terrorist attack… (Benoît Magimel and Grégoire Colin complete the cast).
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