Jo Vermaercke

Leos Carax is back in Cannes’s Official Competition nine years after Holy Motors with Annette, a sung-through film written and scored by the musical duo Sparks. Telling the story of a star couple (Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard) and their young daughter, Annette is Carax’s most spectacular work. The director’s faithful companion in arms since the medium-length movie Merde (2008), cinematographer Caroline Champetier, AFC, recounts here the making of Annette, whose every sequence was a technical and artistic challenge. (YT)

Leos Carax est de retour en Compétition officielle à Cannes, neuf ans après Holy Motors, avec Annette, film chanté dont le livret est signé par le duo musical Sparks. Racontant l’histoire d’un couple vedette (Adam Driver et Marion Cotillard) et de leur petite fille, Annette est l’œuvre la plus spectaculaire de Leos Carax. Fidèle compagne d’armes du réalisateur depuis le moyen métrage Merde (2008), la directrice de la photographie Caroline Champetier, AFC, retrace ici la fabrication d’Annette, dont chaque séquence a été un défi technique et artistique. (YT)

For his fourth movie, The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012), director Felix Van Groeningen once more teamed up with director of photography Ruben Impens. The movie tells the love story of Elise and Didier (Veerle Baetens en Johan Heldenbergh). They couldn’t be happier when their daughter Maybelle is born.
However, when Maybelle turns six, she becomes seriously ill and her illness impacts Didier and Elise’s relationship. Both of them react differently to the diagnosis, but don’t have any other choice but to fight together for their daughter. The Broken Circle Breakdown was an enormous success and the movie won many international prices, one of which was a César for the Best Foreign Film. It was also nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Foreign Language Film.