Bardot, Netflix, Cumberbatch, Seydoux… The most enticing projects discovered at Cannes

The Cannes Film Festival is not just a race for the Palme. Alongside competition, the film market is a source of funding for new works. Here are some films and series in preparation that have stood out this year.

The Cannes Film Festival is also four thousand films and projects presented to professionals in the field to find funding and put new works on the rails. Here are some of the fictions whose existence we discovered as part of the Film Market, which ends Wednesday, May 25.

Léa Seydoux will be Emmanuelle. “ Audrey Diwan told me that she wanted to talk about a woman these days that she sees, that she knows, but that she doesn’t see on screen. I understand what she means. » Léa Seydoux has returned on the adaptation announced, on the eve of the opening of the Cannes Film Festival, of the erotic book Emmanuellealready become a cult film in 1974. The subject will now be“offering a feminine look at a woman’s relationship to her sexuality”.

Anthony Hopkins will be Freud. After Viggo Mortensen, Montgomery Clift or Alec Guinness, it’s the 84-year-old actor’s turn to sit in Sigmund Freud’s chair. Freud’s Last Session will tell the story of the last days of the father of psychoanalysis, on the eve of the Second World War. We will meet his writer friend CS Lewis there (The world of Narnia) with whom he discusses the existence of God, and his lesbian daughter Anna, in a story mixing past, present and daydreams, reports The Hollywood Reporter.

Will Benedict Cumberbatch be Robin Hood? A peasant revolt in the XIV^and century in England, a rebel who helps the poor, and The Hood for film title, you see? Benedict Cumberbatch might not quite be Robin Hood in the next film by Paul Greengrass (director of Jason Bourne) as we still lack details on the project, but almost.

David Duchovny, total artist. The star of X Files and Californication will adapt his own book Bucky F*cking Tooth and direct the film, announcement variety. And guess who is the main performer? The story of this confused forty-something son who returns to live with his father was a bestseller in 2016 in the United States. To avoid weakening his father, victim of an incurable disease, the man makes him believe that his favorite baseball team does not lose and mobilizes his neighborhood around this deception.

Bardot remains Bardot. A documentary on Brigitte Bardot will see the light of day with the full support of the person concerned: the former actress will tell her own story. Director Alain Berliner wants to give him the opportunity “to talk openly about her life and to revisit certain subjects that she cares about passionately”. “She was and remains a rebel with a cause”, says the director. Will political discourse be addressed?

Netflix is ​​having a blast. The biggest transaction in this film market would be the work of… Netflix. The platform bought for over $50 million Bread Hustlers. Director David Yates (Harry Potter, Fantastic Beasts) will direct Emily Blunt there this summer for a feature film “in the vein of wolf of wall street Where The Big Short “.

Apple TV+ is no slouch. The platform acquired the science fiction film Fingernails, one of Cannes’ most popular projects according to Deadline. In a world where a test can reveal if married couples are truly in love, companies offer to find the right partner. A solution that Jessie Buckley looks at with skepticism while Riz Ahmed is a love coach in the company.

The CIA in Beirut. The Good Spy is the adaptation of a Pulitzer prize centered on Robert Ames, head of the CIA office in Lebanon in 1983, one of the sixty-three victims of the attack against the American embassy in Beirut. The film will be directed by Palestinian Hany Abu-Assad (Paradise Now).

A series and a film about Putin. For the film, Polish director Patryk Vega – a successful filmmaker in his country – is looking “an American star” for the title role, or at least international, and wants an English-language shoot, says The Hollywood Reporter. It intends to retrace the rise of the master of the Kremlin, like a gangster film.

Series All The Kremlin’s Men (“all the men in the Kremlin”) is inspired by the book of an expelled Russian journalist – a series of interviews with those close to Vladimir Putin. Ukrainian producer Alexandre Rodnianski wants to make it ” a House of Cards Russian”, ensures variety.

At least two beautiful subjects in animation. Rudyard Kipling’s book Kim will be adapted into animation by the Indian Ketan Mehta while Marion Cotillard (in French) and Keira Knightley (in English) will lend their voices to Charlotteanimated feature film on Charlotte Salomon, a singular young German painter deported from Nice to Auschwitz.