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France has unveiled the five titles in the running to represent it in Best International Feature Film category at the 97th Academy awards.
They are: All We Imagine As Light by Payal Kapadia The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre de La Patellière, Matthieu Delaporte Emilia Pérez by Jacques Audiard Misericorde by Alain Guiraudie This year’s candidate is being decided by a restructured selection committee – featuring Venice Golden Lion winner Audrey Diwan and Oscar winners, writer, director and producer Florian Zeller and producer Patrick Wachsberger – as France attempts to break a 30-year awards drought in the category, even its cinema talents have been feted in other categories.
Frontrunners in the list are Emilia Pérez and The Count of Monte Cristo. Audiard’s Spanish-language musical Emilia Pérez, about a Mexican drug-lord having a sex change, made history in Cannes after its star Karla Sofia Gascón became the first transgender actress to win its Best Actress prize.
The film, which also features Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gomez in cast, also won the Cannes Jury Prize. Swashbuckler The Count of Monte Cristo stars Pierre Niney as the iconic of protagonist of the classic revenge tale, with other members of the cast including Bastien Bouillon, Anaïs Demoustier, Anamaria Vartolomei, Laurent Lafitte and Pierfrancesco Favino Having world premiered Out of Competition at Cannes, the film has sold eight million tickets in France.
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