Rencontres de Gérardmer : ask for the program!
18 films will be previewed from April 8 to 12 in the Vosges, where several directors are expected, including Artus, Bruno Podalydès… and Antoine Raimbault, who will be accompanied by José Bové!
18 films will be previewed from April 8 to 12 in the Vosges, where several directors are expected, including Artus, Bruno Podalydès… and Antoine Raimbault, who will be accompanied by José Bové!
“I wanted to talk about people in their fifties and a woman facing this age,” says director Cécile Telerman, who came to present her film at the Rencontres du Cinéma de Gérardmer.
Shot in the region of Gérardmer, Anne Le Ny directed a film “100% Vosges”, with José Garcia and André Dussolier. “I needed the mountains,” says the actress and director.
Kieron J.Walsh takes us into the peloton of the 1998 Tour de France, with a rider at the end of his career.
Javier Bardem plays a cynical boss in “El Buen Patron”, a delightful tragicomedy by Fernando Leon de Aranoa, a success in Spanish cinema.
Telling the daily life of a mother and her daughter, this Japanese animated film is as funny as it is touching.
The actor-director plays a kind of “Forrest Gump,” a kind man who fades away, and exposes “a way of looking at life” in his film “It’s Beautiful !”
The actress-director wanted to “take a feminine look” at guys with “Men on the verge of a nervous breakdown”, a tender and benevolent group comedy.
“I still have two films to make”, confided the filmmaker at the Rencontres du Cinéma de Gérardmer. This time he is the filmmaker filmed by Philippe Azoulay, who has dedicated a documentary to him, “Tourner pour vivre”.
“It’s a film that brings together all my passions,” confides MB 14, who plays a young rapper with a talent for operatic singing. “Our reference is Billy Elliot,” adds director Claude Zidi Jr.
A courtroom film, Marco Kreuzpainter is a gripping tale of post-war Germany and the failed denazification.
“This is not a film about #MeToo,” assures actress-director Monia Chokri, who shot a modern, offbeat tale, dealing with male-female relationships with humor.