Cannes Unveils Final 2023 Selections Including Films By Catherine Corsini, Amat Escalante, Robert Rodriguez & Valérie Donzelli
deadline.comThe Cannes Film Festival has announced a raft of new additions to the Official Selection of its 76th edition running May 16 to 27.
Two new films have been added to Competition: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire’s Black Flies and Catherine Corsini’s Le Retour. According to media reports, Corsini’s Le Retour was to have been announced as the seventh female-directed film in Competition during the main line-up press conference on April 13.
Allegations of inappropriate behaviour on the Corsica-based set – detailed in reports by French newspapers Le Parisien and Libération – forced the festival to put its selection on hold, while it looked into the matter.
Cannes Delegate General Thierry Frémaux is reported to have said that he would not be swayed by rumors. The Cannes Premiere section has been bolstered with Amat Escalante’s Perdidos en la Noche and Valérie Donzelli’s L’Amour et Les Forêts and Lisandro Alonso’s Eureka.
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