For its 45th edition, the american film Festival of Deauville rolls out the red carpet to the women directors and actresses. The artistic director of the event Bruno Barde has unveiled the programme for the event this Thursday. With six films out of fourteen in competition directed by women, the Festival, which will be based in the seaside resort of normandy from 6 to 15 September, is nearly at parity, where Venice and Cannes are still up the straps. Out-of-competition, in which will be projected thirty-six films in before-first, eleven of the talents behind the camera are women.
Two years after #MeToo, the majority of the prizes awarded by the Festival celebrate actresses. Already made public, the Deauville Talent Award will be awarded to Kristen Stewart, revealed by the saga teenage girl Twilight before becoming a pillar of the 7th art american independent. Will also be distinguished from Sophie Turner, Geena Davis and Sienna Miller. The heroine English of the cult series of HBO’s Game of Thrones and of the franchise, X-Men will be awarded the prize New Hollywood. His compatriot Sienna Miller and star of Thelma and Louise , the American Geena Davis, will be the other two recipients of Deauville Talent Awards of this edition 2019 at the side of one and only one man, former James Bond Pierce Brosnan.
Very committed, Geena Davis has created as early as 2004 the association of See Jane to fight against the representations of gender in audiovisual media and the american media. It will present in Deauville on the documentary This Changes Everything, of which it is the producer. An analysis of the gender disparities in Hollywood, where Meryl Streep, Sharon Stone, Jessica Chastain, Natalie Portman and Cate Blanchett.
A jury of 100% women
The jury is 100% female. Anna Mouglalis will lead the discussions of the jury of the Revelation, to the sides of Alice Belaïdi, Marie-Louise Khondji, Damien Bonnard and Roman Kolinka. As announced, Catherine Deneuve will head the main jury, which is surrounded by Clear Burger, Valéria Golino, Vicky Krieps, Antonin Baudry, Jean-Pierre Duret, Gaël Morel, Orelsan, Nicolas Saada, and Gaspard Ulliel. The icon of the young girls of Rochefort will be presented with the Distinction digital the INA to the opening of the Festival on the 6th. It will be a new time in the spotlight the following day at the premiere of the comedy Music of My Life of Gurinder Chadha, a tribute to the repertoire of Bruce Springsteen in the gloom of thatcher’s britain.
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As in past editions, the official competition is the best of the early films of auteur cinema. Adolescence and the transition to adulthood will be, it seems, a common denominator of many of them. In Bull Annie Silverstein, a teenage vandal, discovers a new appetite for life under the orders of a former star of the rodeo. In Ham on Rye of Tyler Taormina, students must submit to a strange rite of passage that will decide the fate of their generation, causing some to escape their suburban and condemning the others to stay there… Mickey and the Bear Annabelle Attanasio sees a young girl caring for her widowed father, addicted to opiates.
Jamie Bell, with Skins by Guy Nattiv, will immerse the viewer into the world of skinheads. In The Peanut Butter Falcon with Shia LeBeouf, a down syndrome runs away from him to meet an ex-star in the wrestling. One of the young shoots of Dunkirk Nolan, Fionn Whitehead, camped in the Port Authority Danielle Lessovitz a young man who tries to find refuge in a troupe of dancers from Harlem practicing the voguing. In Share of Pippa Bianco produced by HBO and discovered at Cannes where it was nominated for the golden camera, a teenager must be reminded of his evening, something that is not easy.
The lovers of strange atmosphere will not want to miss another good surprise seen on the Croisette: The Lighthouse . Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson camped out in this closed-door black-and-white two lighthouse keepers from a remote island of New britain in the 1890s. Judy-and-Punch , with the Alice of Tim Burton Mia Wasikowska, dates back to the Seventeenth century and follows the puppeteers-making with a moral stickler. The Wolf’s Hour will feature Naomi Watts in writer-recluse in the heart of the riots and the heat wave in the New York of 1977.
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Terrence Malick and Woody Allen
The front section-first will be more general public, the image of the film opening A rainy day in New york city , Woody Allen, and closing Wasp-Network Olivier Assayas with Penélope Cruz. In addition to Music of My Life , you will be able to discover the second component, Friends like pigs , the animated film from the video game Angry Birds. Just introduced to Venice, Waiting for the Barbarians , the dystopia is based on the novel of J. M. Coetzee waiting for the barbarians will confront Johnny Depp and Mark Rylance. After Mindhunter and Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, Charles Manson will be screen again Charlie Says. The serial killer will take this time features Matt Smith (Doctor Who). After having upset the Cannes film Festival, the dream A hidden life by Terrence Malick about a conscientious objector to the era of the Third Reich will be the next. Those who like to be scared go see the western almost supernatural cursed Earth Emma Tammi. Nate Parker, director of the highly acclaimed Birth of A Nation, award-winning at Sundance, will present his new film American Skin.
fans of Kristen Stewart are in for a treat with the screening of two of his new films: Seberg , the biopic about the icon of the New Wave and JT LeRoy , the story of one of the most famous impostures of the literary 2000s. Sophie Turner will also be ubiquitous. The actress will present Heavy , a thriller in which she portrays the great love of a dealer, destabilized by the return of a childhood friend, and will be, of course, displays the integral of Game of Thrones. , The Festival organizes a marathon one season per day — at the cinema The Morny. The opportunity finally to discover the obscure battle of Winterfell on the big screen or to relive the thrills of the battle of the Batards.
Winner of the jury prize at Cannes, Les Misérables of Ladj Ly walk away with the prize’ornano-Valenti qiu is awarded to a first French film, in order to help its recognition, promotion and export.
