uonly documentary in competition Youth by Wang Bing is set in city of Zhili, where young people come from all the rural regions crossed by the Yangtze River, attracted by job opportunities in the textile industry. They are 20 years old, share dormitories and eat in the corridors. They work tirelessly to make their dreams come true, start a family, buy a house or open their own workshop. Friendships and romances are formed and unraveled throughout the seasonsfailures and family pressures.
In Blackflies Of Jean-Stephane Sauvaire Tye Sheridan is a young New York paramedic, Sean Penn, an ER doctor. Together they are faced with an act of extreme violence and discover the risks of a job that every day shakes their certainties about life and death. This too in the main competition.
Sean Penn and Tye Sheridan.
But today is also the day of Indiana Joneschapter 5, i.e The Quadrant of Destiny. Harrison Ford, 81 in Julyis this time joined by Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Mads Mikkelsen. There’s the whip, there’s a lost ark, there’s a villain. Indiana would like to retire, but he has to save the world again.
Ethann Isidore, Harrison Ford and Phoebe Waller-Bridge in INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY.
For Un certain regard it’s time to The nature of love by Monia Chokri, romantic comedy, a genre that is generally under-represented at festivals. Sophia, a 40-year-old philosophy professor, has a stable, if somewhat boring, relationship with Xavier. Sylvain is a craftsman who is renovating Sophia and Xavier’s new country house. When Sophia and Sylvain meet, Sophia’s world turns upside down. Opposites attract, but can they last?
Also Rosalie Of Stephanie Di Giusto with Benjamin Biolay, Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Benoît Magimeltalk about love. Rosalie is a young woman in 1870s France who is hiding a secret. She is what she is referred to as a bearded woman but not wanting to become a carnival phenomenon and for fear of being rejected, she was forced to shave. Until the day Abel, owner of a bar full of debts, marries her for her dowry without knowing her secret. Will Abel be able to love her when he finds out the truth?
The movie to see today at Quinzaine could be Deserts by the Franco-Moroccan Faouzi Bensaidi. Longtime friends, Mehdi and Hamid, work for a debt collection agency. They cross the villages of the great Moroccan south in their old car and share double rooms in shabby hotels. One day, in a gas station in the middle of the desert an extraordinary event breaks the routine and marks the beginning of an unexpected and mystical journey.
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