The 48th edition of the festival concluded on Saturday with a rousing evening celebrating America’s powerful new guard of female directors. Under the rays of the full moon, the judges of Arnaud Desplechin and Elodie Bouchez (Revelations category) allowed themselves to be carried away by the Deauville night.
“Silence, engine, action.” this is the name of the cocktail invented by Frederic Desmars, the head barman of the Le Normandy hotel, specially for the Deauville American Film Festival. As an invitation to go to the red carpet of the closing ceremony of the 48th edition, which took place this Saturday, September 10, in the city of Normandy. A landmark publication of America’s riots and rifts, it hailed the power of the female gaze upon the nation. Ana de Armas was paying the day before happy tears on stage at the Center international de Deauville, receiving his New Hollywood Award before the screening Blondefrom director Andrew Dominick.
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The Deauville public was still reeling from the Marilyn Monroe biopic 2:55 this Saturday when an awards night dominated by female talent began. The young director Charlotte Wells, whose first film after the sun (with Paul Mescal) won over the jury of Arnaud Desplechin, who awarded him his Grand Prix, as well as the Critique juries. Also directors Gina Gammell and Riley Keon, who after the Camera d’Or at Cannes won a big hit and a Jury Prize here. war ponya disturbing dive in an American reservation.
american dream
The closing show of Do not worryMy dearOlivia Wilde’s film, which premiered Monday night at the Venice Film Festival amid rumors of a feud between the cast (Harry Styles, Florence Pugh, among others), brought a new knife edge to the myth of the American dream. Hopeful bubble or waking nightmare? The guests were still discussing it at the winners’ dinner in the magnificent lounge of the Casino Barrière. A few macaroons later, some followed in the magnificent footsteps of jurors Lea Drucker and Marin Wakht, who headed to the casino terrace to cool off. Others, such as Agathe Roussel or Eddie de Pretto, continued the evening at the O2 sofa bar, translator Bateaux Mouches tall blue cup to match her costume in her hand.
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During the evening’s revelry, Pierre Deladonchamp went behind the bar to serve cocktails himself, while the others recovered their strength around a fondue on the terrace of a room that swung so close to the stem of the Wave. The full moon in the sky lit up the green half-wood of Normandy with its silver rays. How it shone already on the evening of November 1978, when a prince named Charles came to celebrate his 30th birthday. For King Charles III, indiscretion is gone for good, about his new task and new responsibilities.
Source: Le Figaro
