2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 6 – Valeria Bruni‑Tedeschi’s Les Amandiers (aka Forever Young)

A decade after presenting A Castle in Italy (2013), Valeria Bruni‑Tedeschi returns to the competition with Les Amandiers (Forever Young). Starring Louis Garrel as Patrice Chéreau and a slew of students lucky (or unlucky) to make it into the infamous school of actors in Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Alexia Chardard and Oscar Lesage, this is Bruni‑Tedeschi’s third trip to the fest as a director – she showcased 2007’s Actresses in the Un Certain Regard section. Having not seen that film – I wonder if both films speak to one another.

Simply put this follows a group of students admitted into Patrice Chéreau’s Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre in the 1980s. Lots of close-up shots and drama in these young people’s lives.

With a dozen critic scores coming in…we’re looking at a notch just below the average 3 mark.

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