The closing Ceremony is dead, long live the «Last Session». In a press release issued Monday, 6 may, the Festival de Cannes has announced that it has renamed the last evening of the festivities as the film of Peter Bogdanovich and the song of Eddy Mitchel. The reason for this? He wants to «reconnect with its tradition of ultimate great projection, with the image of memorable evenings which have been shown E. T., the extraterrestrial of Steven Spielberg (in the old Palace, in 1982), Thelma and Louise Ridley Scott (again in 1991) or the Don Quixote of Terry Gilliam last year.»
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This is a duo of film directors very much appreciated by the French public, which will dry up the plaster on the 25th of may next: Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache. The filmmakers of the Untouchables and the Meaning of the feast shall come up the steps of the Palais des Festivals, alongside Vincent Cassel and Reda Kateb to present nonstandard , their new movie. The pitch? Bruno and Malik lived for 20 years in another world, that of children and adolescents with autism. Within their two respective associations, they are forming young people from difficult neighborhoods in which to frame these cases classified as «hyper-complex». An alliance is out of the ordinary to personalities outside the norm. With this film, viewers should find all the keys to the success of the tandem of filmmakers, to find humor and humanity.
On may 25, during the evening of the Charts, the #DernièreSéance will be an event with the projection of Outside the Norms, the new film by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano with Vincent Cassel and Reda Kateb ! #Cannes2019 @Gaumont @ToledanoNakache
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— Festival de Cannes (@Festival_Cannes) May 6, 2019
«Like the characters, the viewer is immersed in these associations, with these families, the doctors, the volunteers, the interns, these heroes of the solidarity and love of others,» said Pierre Lescure, President of the Festival.
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«This work an ultra-contemporary door is a beautiful promise for the future, stresses Thierry Frémaux, general Delegate of the Festival. With nonstandard screened at this Last Meeting, as with the others French films presented in the official Selection, the film will show in 2019 its ability to evoke the cities, the streets and malls, the faces of young people, their commitments, their music and their places, their will to live and their questioning of the world.»
A «Last Session» in history on the Croisette announcing another first: nonstandard , by Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache will be out in the hall, for the general public, on 23 October 2019.