The 9 most awaited French films of 2022
French cinema, more alive than ever, promises us great emotions this year. Here are 9 films that we can't wait to see.
A Radiant Girl (January 26)
Sandrine Kiberlain steps behind the camera to direct her first feature film. It tells the story of Irene, an aspiring actress whose youth and love life is revealed to be troubled. Selected at the Critics' Week, this successful directorial debut stars the divine Rebecca Marder (from the Comédie-Française) in the role of the amateur actress with a thwarted destiny.
Another World (February 16)
Stéphane Brizé concludes his social trilogy here, after The Measure of Man and At War. Vincent Lindon and Sandrine Kiberlain star alongside upcoming French hopeful, Anthony Bajon, in this drama. The film follows a family damaged by the pressure of work that takes everything away.
Simone Veil, a Woman of the Century (February 23)
After exploring the lives of Edith Piaf and Grace Kelly, Olivier Dahan is interested in another icon: Simone Veil. This biopic, which has been postponed many times, promises to be both grand and intimate. It embraces the life of this great French woman, from the concentration camps to the National Assembly, where she changed the status of women forever by decriminalizing abortions. To embody the feminist icon, the director has chosen the actress Elsa Zylberstein who, as you can already see from the first shots of the film, is playing one of her most beautiful roles.
Goliath (March 9)
Frédéric Tellier takes on the hot topic of GMOs and pesticides in a thrilling film starring Pierre Niney, Gilles Lelouche and Emmanuelle Bercot in which the fates of an activist, a lobbyist and a lawyer specializing in environmental law become intertwined after the radical action of an unknown woman.
Notre-Dame on Fire (March 16)
800 years of existence, 200 years of construction, 13 million visitors and only 2 hours to be ravaged in flames. The yellow smoke that fell on Paris on the evening of April 15, 2019 spread as the Notre-Dame de Paris was ravaged by fire. A terrible sight that Parisians, helplessly witnessed all night, praying that the beloved cathedral would persist as it has always done for over 800 years. Viollet-le-Duc's spire went up in smoke, the roof that made up the famous Forest was burned, and in this tragedy Notre-Dame had lost its beauty. A day engraved in history that the director Jean-Jacques Annaud has reconstructed, minute by minute, to offer us a great cinema experience moving with realism.
En Corps (March 30)
A new Klapisch film is always highly anticipated. His new production promises its share of grace and emotion. En Corps takes us into the world of dance in the footsteps of Élise (Marion Barbeau, principal dancer at the Paris Opera), a young classical dancer wounded in her soul and her flesh, who finds peace in contemporary dance. Rounding out the cast are Pio Marmaï and François Civil, who returns to work with the director after their film Back to Burgundy. Read More…
