Four films have already been chosen to represent France at the Oscars in 2025 – Libération

2024-09-12 12:07:09

“The Count of Monte Cristo”, “Emilia Pérez”, “All that we imagined as fire” and “Miséricorde” are running to represent France at the Oscars in March 2025, the National Cinema Center announced on Wednesday September 11, 2024 .

In the end, only one will die. Le Comte de Monte Cristo, Emilia Perez, Everything we think of as light etc Mercy are the four films already selected to represent France at the Oscars ceremony scheduled for March 2025, as announced by the National Cinema Center (CNC) on Wednesday September 11.

The committee responsible for this selection must meet again on September 18 to hold hearings, at the end of which it will be selected The film that will represent France in the race for the Oscar for the best international film 2025”.

Four movies, four worlds

The 2025 selection includes one of the biggest achievements of the year in France: The Count of Monte Cristosigned Alexandre de La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte, still in theaters after eleven weeks of operation. The adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ novel, with Pierre Niney in the role of Edmond Dantès, has surpassed 8 million downloads, according to CBO Box-Office data.

Another contender, a musical comedy by Jacques Audiard, Emilia PerezJury Prize at the last Cannes Film Festival and collective actress prize for Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez as well as for the transgender leading actress Karla Sofía Gascón.

The CNC board is still on hold Everything we think of as lightby the young Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia, a sociologist and feminist who won the Grand Prix at Cannes, whose production is French. Suburban thriller MercyAlain Guiraudie’s seventh feature film with Catherine Frot and Félix Kysyl, completes the selection of possible candidates.

Ancient demons

For the 2024 edition, the controversial choice of the passion of Dodin Bouffant by Tran Anh Hung, at the expense of the Palme d’Or has 1.9 million admissions Anatomy of a fall by Justine Triet, has created controversy. In the end it was not selected among the finalists who competed for the Oscar while the other, rejected by the seven members of the Commission, became the biggest French success of 2023 on the North American market.

The Palme d’Or of the Cannes Film Festival of 2023 also won the prize for the best original film at the Oscars, in addition to many other international awards, such as two Golden Globes.

This year, the selection committee has changed. It will now consist of eleven members and five substitutes, compared to seven previously. “in order to promote the collegiality of debates, the diversity of points of view and the confidentiality of each member’s vote” as CNC said.