We know the program for Cinéroman 2025, scheduled from September 29 to October 4 in Nice.
Sandrine Kiberlain, president of the jury for this year's edition of Cinéroman, the literary film festival organized by Daniel and Nathalie Benoin, is gradually revealing herself. We already knew that the actress would be joined by Vassili Schneider, Justine Levy, Alice Taglioni, Sayyid El Alami, Pierre Deladonchamps, and a Cinéroman regular, Danièle Thompson, a member of the jury for the seventh time—in as many editions—including once as president. Now, we're starting to get a little more insight into the competition, with the films that will be screened at the Pathé Gare du Sud cinema.
Melanie Thierry, Cecile de France, Michel Blanc...We begin with Dalloway by Yann Gozlan with Cécile de France based on the work Les Fleurs de l'ombre by Tatiana de Rosnay. Answering Machine , based on the work by Luc Blanvillain and Fabienne Godet, allows the duo Salif Cissé-Denis Podalydès to shine. Attachment , by Carine Tardieu based on L'Intimité by Alice Ferney, features Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Juliette Armanet, Vimala Pons, Pio Marmaï and Raphaël Quenard. My Mother, God and Sylvie Vartan by Ken Scott gives Leïla Bekhti the opportunity to sublimate the eponymous autobiography by Roland Perez.
La Cache , an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Christophe Boltanski, is Michel Blanc's latest film. Recently released in theaters, Alex Lutz's Connemara is an adaptation of the book by Nicolas Mathieu, former Goncourt winner, starring Bastien Bouillon and Mélanie Thierry.
The latter will also be featured in Emmanuel Finkiel's film Mariana's Room , an adaptation of Aharon Appelfeld's book. Laurent Petitmangin's book What the Night Takes is being brought to the screen by the Coulin sisters, Delphine and Muriel, with Vincent Lindon in the lead role. Finally, to finish, an adaptation of Amélie Nothomb's book, Metaphysics of Tubes , will be in the running for animation, a first. It is a film by Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han.
But the other big attraction of Cinéroman remains its numerous previews with its many talents present at the cinema to greet the audience before each screening. We begin with T'as pas changé , a film by and starring Jérôme Commandeur in which we will also find François Damiens, Vanessa Paradis and Laurent Laffite around a promo meeting and reunion-review.
The atmosphere changes completely with Pascal Elbé's La Bonne Étoile , starring Benoît Poelvoorde, Audrey Lamy, Zabou Breitman, and Hugo Becker, about the transition to the free zone in 1940. Presented at Cannes and shot in particular in the Alpes-Maritimes, Joséphine Japy's film, Qui brille au combat , starring Mélanie Laurent, tells, with simplicity, the daily life of a family around a child with a severe disability. Melissa Drigeard will present Le gang des Amazones , the story of five childhood friends who are bank robbers in Avignon in the 90s. A story of sisterhood carried by Izia Higelin, Lyna Khoudri, Laura Felpin, Mallory Wanecque, and Kenza Fortas.
Make way for comedy with D-Day , a war comedy with a twist starring Kev Adams and Brahim Bouhlel, in which Claude Zidi Jr. tells a buddy movie about June 6, 1944. Another film presented at Cannes is The Richest Woman in the World by Thierry Klifa, starring Isabelle Huppert, and loosely inspired by the Banier-Bettencourt affair. Six Days, That Spring, starring Eye Haïdara, takes place on the French Riviera, allowing Joachim Lafosse to film family ties, his specialty. Abd Al Malik offers Furcy, Born Free , an adaptation of a true story, namely the book The Affair of the Slave Furcy by Mohammed Aïssaoui. A film set on Reunion Island in 1817, starring Makita Samba, Romain Duris, and Ana Girardot.
Now a regular on the Côte d'Azur, Muriel Robin will be coming to present her latest film, The Worst Mother in the World , in which she plays opposite Louise Bourgoin under the camera of Pierre Mazingarbe.
A dense program but which does not stop there since other major events are planned, we think of the preview of the poignant documentary about the mourning of Jérémie Rénier - From one world to another - to the film by Isabelle Carré, The dreamers , with Bernard Campan, the discovery of the film by Julien Hosmalin, Without pitiful , with the Grassois Adam Bessa and Tewfik Jallab, a meeting with Thierry Frémaux, general delegate of the Cannes Film Festival, around the documentary Lumière, the adventure continue, the latest film by Valérie Donzelli, At work , with Bastien Bouillon and Virginie Ledoyen.
Not forgetting, and for the first time, an association between Cinéroman and the Rialto cinema with an adapted program with previews including the next film by Kristen Stewart, Chronology of Water but also the screening of cult films like Dead Poets Society by Peter Weir and Dangerous Liaisons by Stephen Fears.
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