Festivals - FCAD 2020 : Deauville welcomes Cannes

By Mulder, 28 july 2020

"A city, beaches, a landscape? No, it's not Cannes, it's Deauville. The one that hosts one of the oldest film festivals in France will exceptionally take on the allure of the Croisette in this year that is so special for cinema. With Pierre Lescure and the Cannes teams, we are very happy with the hospitality offered to us to screen the films of the Official Selection on the boards of Deauville. We share with Bruno Barde the same high standards for cinema, the same passion for artists, and a similar tradition of generosity and openness to the world. " Thierry Frémaux, General Delegate of the Cannes Film Festival

Exceptional circumstances, exceptional edition: the American Film Festival invites this year the Cannes Film Festival, in its nature of international dimension. 10 films were thus selected among the 56 titles of the Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival. An intense moment to make the world's largest festival in Deauville come alive and palpitate. All audiences will be able to discover these films on the big screen, in the presence of its General Delegate Thierry Frémaux and its President Pierre Lescure. The films from Cannes will thus irrigate all the sections of this 2020 edition, giving an original and cosmopolitan hue to the program. Numerous film teams, most of them French, will be present to exchange with the public. For lovers of cinema from across the Atlantic, in addition to the Cannes selection, the festival will, as usual, offer some 70 American films. And as Philippe Augier, Mayor of Deauville, says, "This year, the Deauville Festival is above all the rendezvous of the cinema".

ADN (France: 90mns)
Written and Directed by Maïwenn
Produced by Pascal Caucheteux
Starring Maïwenn, Fanny Ardant, Louis Garrel, Marine Vacth, Alain Françon, Caroline Chaniolleau, Dylan Robert, Henri-Noël Tabary, Omar Marwan
Music by Stephen Warbeck
Cinematography: Sylvestre Dedise
Edited by Laure Gardette
Production: Why Not Productions
Distribution: Le Pacte (France)
Release date: October 28 2020 (France)
Synopsis: Neige, a divorced mother of three children, regularly visits her Algerian grandfather Emir, who now lives in a retirement home. She adores and admires this pillar of the family, who raised her and above all protected her from the toxicity of her parents. The relationships between the many members of the family are complicated and there are many resentments... Fortunately Neige can count on the support and humour of François, her ex. The grandfather's death will trigger a family storm and a deep identity crisis for Neige. From then on, she will want to understand and know his DNA.

Ammonite (United Kingdom, Australia & United States; 120mns)
Written and Directed by Francis Lee
Produced by Iain Canning, Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly, Emile Sherman
Starring Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan, Emma Jones, James McArdle, Alec Secareanu, Fiona Shaw
Music by Volker Bertelmann, Dustin O'Halloran
Cinematography: Stéphane Fontaine
Edited by Chris Wyatt
Production: See-Saw-Films
Distribution : Stage 6 Films, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Pyramide Distribution (France)
Release date: March 31 2020 (France)
Synopsis: Mary Anning was a renowned paleontologist but now lives modestly with her mother on the wild south coast of England. Mary gathers ammonites on the beach and sells them to wealthy tourists. One of them, leaving on a business trip, asks her to board his convalescent wife, Charlotte Murchison. This is the beginning of a passionate love story that will defy all social barriers and change their lives forever.

Des Hommes (France & Belgium; 101mns)
A Lucas Belvaux film
Produced by David Frenkel
Starring Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Frot, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Yoann Zimmer, Félix Kysyl, Edouard Sulpice, Fleur Fitoussi
Cinematography: Guillaume Deffontaines
Edited by Ludo Troch
Production: Synecdoche, Artémis Productions, France 3 Cinéma
Distribution: Ad Vitam (France)
Release date: November 11 2020 (France)
Synopsis: They were called to Algeria at the time of the "events" in 1960. Two years later, Bernard, Rabut, Février and others returned to France. They kept quiet, they lived their lives. But sometimes all it takes is almost nothing, a birthday, a gift that fits in the pocket, for forty years later, the past to burst into the lives of those who thought they could deny it.

Les deux Alfred (France: 92mns)
Written and Directed by Bruno Podalydès
Produced by Olivier Père
Starring Sandrine Kiberlain, Denis Podalydès, Bruno Podalydès, Yann Frisch, Luana Bajrami, Leslie Menu, Michel Vuillermoz, Vanessa Paradis
Cinematography: Patrick Blossier
Production: Why Not Productions, Arte France Cinéma
Distribution: UGC Dsitribution (France)
Release date: NC
Synopsis: Alexandre, an unemployed decommissioned worker, has two months to prove to his wife that he can take care of his two young children and be financially independent. Problem: The Box, the very friendly start-up that wants to hire him on a trial basis, has a dogma: "No children! "and Séverine, his future superior, is a "killer" with an eruptive character. To get this job, Alexandre has to lie... Will meeting Arcimboldo, "entrepreneur of his own free will" and king of small jobs on appis help this brave and disoriented man to overcome all these challenges?

A Good man (France: 108mns)
Directed by Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar
Produced by Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar
Written by Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar, Christain Sonderegger
Starring Noémie Merlant, Soko, Vincent Dedienne, Gabriel Almer, Alysson Paradis, Anne Loiret, Genevieve Mnich, Jonas Ben Ahmed
Cinematography: Myriam Vinocour
Edited by Benoit Quinon
Production: Willow Films, Score Pictures, France 2 Cinema
Distribution: Pyramide Distribution
Release date: March 3 2021 (France)
Synopsis : Aude and Benjamin love each other and have been living together for 6 years. Aude suffers from not being able to have a child so Benjamin decides that he will be the one to bear it.

Last Words (Italy, France and USA; 126mns)
Written and Directed by Jonathan Nossiter
Produced by Serge Lalou
Starring Kalipha Touray, Nick Nolte, Charlotte Rampling, Alba Rohrwacher, Stellan Skarsgard
Cinematography: Clarissa Cappellani
Synopsis: In 2085, the Earth is nothing more than an immense desert. The last survivors meet in Athens, called by a last hope... What if Humanity managed to find plenitude while everything is collapsing and is doomed? The astonishing story of the end of the world, lived in a tender and joyful way, by the last five human beings.

Peninsula (South Korea: 114mns)
Directed by Yeon Sang-ho
Written by Joo-Suk Park and Sang-ho Yeon
Starring Gang Dong Won, Kim Do Yoon, Lee Jung Hyun, Kwon Hae Hyo, Lee Re, Lee Ye Won, Kim Min Jae, Koo Gyo Hwan
Production: Redpeter Films
Distribution: ARP Selection (France)
Release date: October 28 2020 (France)
Synopsis: Four years after the events described in Last Train to Busan, there are only zombies left in the peninsula. A group of soldiers forced to return discover that uncontaminated survivors have regrouped in a band far more dangerous than the zombies...

Red (France & Belgium: 88mns)
Directed by Farid Bentoumi
Produced by Frédéric Jouve
Written by Farid Bentoumi and Samuel Doux
Starring Zita Hanrot, Sami Bouajila, Céline Sallette, Olivier Gourmet, Henri-Noël Tabary, Alka Balbir
Cinematography: Georges Lechaptois
Edited by Damien Kayeux
Production: Les Films Velvet, Les Films du Fleuve, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Cinéma
Distribution: Ad Vitam (France)
Release date: November 25 2020 (France)
Synopsis: Nour has just been hired as a nurse in the chemical plant where his father works. He has been a staff representative and has always been the backbone of the company. While the factory is under full health control, a journalist is investigating the waste management. The two young women will gradually discover that this factory, a pillar of the local economy, hides many secrets. Nour has to choose between lying about the pollution, doctored medical records and hidden accidents: keep quiet or betray her father to get the truth out.

Slalom (France & Belgium 92mns)
Written and Directed by Charlène Favier
Produced by Edouard Mauriat
Starring Noée Abita, Jérémie Renier, Catherine Marchal, Muriel Combeau, Axel Auriant, Maïra Schmitt
Music by Alexandre Lier, Sylvain Ohrel, Nicolas Weil
Cinematography: Yann Maritaud
Edited by Maxime Pozzi-Garcia
Release date: NC
Synopsis: Lyz, 15 years old, has just joined a prestigious ski-study section of the Bourg-Saint-Maurice high school. Fred, ex-champion and now coach, has decided to bet everything on his new recruit. Lyz, galvanized by Fred's support, is working hard and going from success to success. At 15, there are no physical or emotional limits. Lyz falls under Fred's absolute control. Will the explosive energy of adolescence give Lyz the strength to regain her freedom?

Teddy (France; 88mns)
Directed by Ludovic & Zoran Boukherma
Produced by Pierre-Louis Gamon, Frédéroc Jouve
Written by Ludovic Boukherma, Zoran Boukherma
Starring Anthony Bajon, Ludovic Torrent, Christine Gautier, Noémie Lvovsky, Guillaume Mattera, Jean-Paul Fabre
Music by Amaury Chabauty
Cinematography: Augustin Barbaroux
Production: Baxter Films, Les Films Velvet
Distribution: The jokers (France)
Release date: January 13 2021 (France)
Synopsis : In the Pyrenees, a wolf stirs up the anger of the villagers. 19-year-old Teddy, without a diploma, lives with his adopted uncle and works in a massage parlour. His girlfriend Rebecca is about to graduate from high school and has a bright future ahead of her. For them, it's an ordinary summer ahead. But one night of full moon, Teddy is scratched by an unknown beast. In the weeks that follow, he is taken by strange animal impulses...

(Source: Press release)