Four films, including “The Count of Monte Cristo”, have already been chosen to represent France at the Oscars

2024-09-11 21:00:05

Le Comte de Monte Cristo, Emilia Perez, All We Imagine is Light etc Mercy are the four films already selected to represent France at the Oscars in March 2025, the National Cinema Center (CNC) announced 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 2025it is specified in the release button.

Le Comte de Monte Cristoby Alexandre de La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte, which is still in theaters after eleven weeks of release, is one of the biggest successes of the year in France. The adaptation of the novel by Alexandre Dumas, with Pierre Niney in the role of Edmond Dantès, exceeded eight million admissions, according to CBO Box-Office data published on Thursday.

Emilia PerezThe musical comedy by Jacques Audiard, won the Jury Prize at the last Cannes Film Festival and won the joint performance award for Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez and the leading transgender actress Karla Sofia Gascon.

Read the review: This article is reserved for our subscribers In “Emilia Perez”, Jacques Audiard films a transgender leader in the world of Mexican cars

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“All We Imagine as Light”, Grand Prix à Cannes

The CNC board is still on hold All We Imagine is Lightby the young Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia, a sociologist and feminist who won the Grand Prix at Cannes, and whose production is mainly French. Suburban thriller Mercywith Catherine Frot and Félix Kysyl, is the seventh feature film by Alain Guiraudie.

For the 2024 edition, France, which has been proposed Love of Dodin Bouffantby Tran Anh Hung, to the exact destruction ofAnatomy of a fallIt was not nominated in the category of the best foreign film by the Academy of Oscars.

The Palme d’Or of the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, however, has been nominated in the category “the best movie” by the Academy and won the prize for the best original screenplay. Its co-producer is part of a selection committee made up of eleven film professionals with an equal gender balance and chaired by Charles Tesson, former general representative of the Critics’ Week in Cannes.

Read also This article is reserved for our subscribers “The Count of Monte Cristo”, a large bold fresco painted by Pierre Niney

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