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The star discusses playing "a crippled, bitter villainess with a deep resentment toward progress" in her first big role since 'Emilia Pérez' and that Oscar season controversy, with CEO Silvia Carvalho touting the film as "distinctive" and a "statement" title heading into the company's first Cannes market.

Premiering in competition tonight at the 79th Cannes Film Festival is one of this year’s French entries, and this new film from Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet, one of several female directors in this year’s lineup, is a strong portrait of the many facets of one woman’s life which may well be why that has become the English […]

“Anaïs in Love,” the 2021 debut feature by writer-director Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet, was a sunny portrait of idealized French womanhood that turned cooler and stranger the longer you stayed with it: Its title character, outwardly a maddeningly winsome ingenue of a particularly Gallic stripe, revealed layers of insecurity and instability we didn’t see coming, and the […]

Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet's Cannes competition entry revolves around a 55-year-old Parisian doctor who begins questioning her life choices after a novelist takes an interest in her.