Oscars: Alice Diop’s “Saint-Omer” will represent France – The HuffPost

Michael Tullberg/Getty Images LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 22: The Best Actor Oscar awarded to Gary Cooper for “Sergeant York” is on display at a media preview of the new Gary Cooper exhibit at University of Southern California on April 22, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Michael Tullberg/Getty Images) Michael Tullberg / Getty Images Oscars: “Saint-Omer” by Alice Diop will represent France CINEMA – The film “Saint-Omer”, twice awarded at the beginning of September at the Venice Film Festival, from director Alice Diop has been chosen to represent France at the 2023 Oscars, the National Cinema Center (CNC) announced on Friday September 23. Inspired by a true story of a trial for infanticide, “Saint-Omer” seeks to explore the “universal question” of the “relationship to motherhood”, affirmed the director during the Mostra. His film tells the story of Laurence Coly, played by Guslagie Malanda, a Senegalese immigrant accused of having killed her 15-month-old baby by abandoning her on a northern beach at rising tide. The film, centered on the trial, is directly inspired by a news item from 2013 and the trial that followed. A film “emblematic of the renewal of French cinema” This is the first fiction of the 43-year-old director, until then specializing in documentaries, including the remarkable “We” (2021), which took the viewer to meet territory — the one crossed by the RER B — and its inhabitants. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize and the prize for the first film in Venice, “Saint-Omer” is “a powerful film, emblematic of the revival of French cinema that we are proud to have supported in particular by the advance on receipts”, s is congratulated the boss of the CNC, Dominique Boutonnat, quoted in the press release. It will be released in theaters on November 23. The 95th Academy Awards will take place on March 12, 2023 in Los Angeles. Previously, a shortlist of 15 films will be unveiled on December 21, 2022, before the five finalist films on January 24, 2023. At the end of July, the CNC reviewed the organization of its commission responsible for selecting the French film for the Oscars. From now on, the commission is made up of seven professionals appointed each year by the Minister of Culture, Rima Abdul Malak, on the proposal of the president of the CNC. The last French film to win the Oscar for best international film was “Indochine” by Régis Wargnier, in 1993. “Titanium” by Julia Ducournau, tricolor representative in 2022, had not been shortlisted by the Academy of Oscars. See also on The HuffPost: Slap at the Oscars 2022: Will Smith apologizes to Chris Rock You cannot view this content because you have refused cookies associated with third-party content. If you want to view this content, you can change your choices.