A relative newcomer to cinema with only the co-directed Zero Fucks Given (with Julie Lecoustre) selected for the 2021 edition of Critics’ Week, Emmanuel Marre’s cinema looks at marginalized lives andf reedom versus responsibility. With A Man of His Time aka Notre Salut is a 1940s period drama drawn from the filmmaker’s own family history, Un homme de son temps stars Swann Arlaud as Henri Marre — a man who arrives in Vichy carrying a political manuscript, convinced that publishing it will earn him a place in the new regime and, in doing so, save both France and himself from ruin. This third of four French films in comp counts as film number Competition film #17 of 22.
A dozen members in our Cannes Critics’ Panel managed to see the film and it has a lot of strong supporters assuring that it will stay in the top tier of the grid. The average score is gave 3.4 which moves it in a tie for fourth place.
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