10/05/2023 - Spearheading the line-up are About Dry Grasses by Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Homecoming by Catherine Corsini, both battling it out for the Palme d’Or, and No Love Lost gracing Critics’ Week

As in 2015 and 2021, the French international sales agent Playtime is wielding two contenders for the Palme d’Or in a line-up which it wholly intends to bring to fruition at the Marché du Film (running 16 – 24 May), unspooling within the 76th Cannes Film Festival.

At the front of the pack is About Dry Grasses [+see also:
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interview: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
film profile] by the Turkish maestro Nuri Bilge Ceylan, who’ll be taking up position in competition for the 7th time in Cannes, where he previously scooped the 2014 Palme d’Or, the 2003 and 2011 Grand Prizes, and the 2008 Best Director Award). The movie is produced by Turkey’s NBC Film, France’s Memento Production, Playtime and Arte France Cinéma, Germany’s Komplizen Film, and Sweden’s Second Land and Film i Väst.

The second jewel in the Playtime crown is Homecoming [+see also:
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interview: Catherine Corsini
interview: Suzy Bemba
film profile] by French director Catherine Corsini, who’ll be taking part in the race for the Palme d’Or for the 3rd time, after Replay in 2001 and The Divide [+see also:
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interview: Catherine Corsini
film profile] in 2021. Her film is steered by Chaz Productions.

The team spearheaded by Nicolas Brigaud-Robert, Sébastien Beffa and François Yon also have a third ace in the Cannes showcase: No Love Lost [+see also:
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interview: Erwan Le Duc
film profile] by French director Erwan Le Duc (starring Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Céleste Brunnquell and Maud Wyler), which is set to close Critics’ Week.

Playtime will also have its hands full at the market, with a premiere for Robin Campillo’s Red Island [+see also:
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film profile] and a flurry of promo reels for 9 titles in post-production: Testament by Canada’s Denys Arcand, Carnival Is Over by Brazil’s Fernando Coimbra, The Devil’s Bath [+see also:
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interview: Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala
film profile] by Austria’s Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala (Goodnight Mommy [+see also:
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interview: Severin Fiala and Veronika …
film profile]), the documentary Antarctica Calling [+see also:
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film profile] by Luc Jacquet (March of the Penguins [+see also:
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film profile]), Headwind by Pierre Godeau (starring François Damiens in the lead), It’s Raining Men by Caroline Vignal and first feature films Quitter la nuit [+see also:
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interview: Delphine Girard
film profile] by Belgium’s Delphine Girard, For Night Will Come [+see also:
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interview: Céline Rouzet
film profile] by Céline Rouzet and, last but not least, Molière’s Last Stage by Olivier Py (starring Laurent Lafitte, Stacy Martin and Jeanne Balibar).

(Translated from French)