Same omnipresence for Léa Seydoux, expected for Gentle Monster of Marie Kreutzer as well as for The Unknown. Marion Cotillard should also increase her appearances on the Croisette with Karma de Guillaume Canet, présenté hors compétition, et Elastic Rome of Bertrand Mandico.
De son côté, Adèle Exarchopoulos défendra Warranty of Jeanne Herrypresented in competition, but also Wedding with the taste of orange of Christophe Honoré in the Cannes Premiere selection. Gilles Lellouche, Benoît Magimel, Daniel AuteuilPierre Niney or even Pio Marmaï should also climb the steps several times during this edition.
Behind the prestige of the red carpet, this concentration of familiar faces once again questions the functioning of French cinema. The Cannes Festival, a world showcase for the seventh art, also reflects an industry which continues to rely on a restricted circle of ultra-identified actors, who have become essential to the visibility – and sometimes the financing – of French productions. A mechanism identified by our colleagues at Télérama in one of their covers last February. This famous “A List” of “bankable” and popular actors seems to be confirmed in Cannes once again.
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