Festival Predictions

2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Claire Simon’s Gare du Nord

Published on April 6, 2013

#42. Claire Simon’s Gare du Nord

Gist: Claire Simon’s fourth feature film will see her applying her documentary style to the Gare du Nord railway station, a “Tower of Babel” where immigrants, European travelers and the French populous all intermingle. A multitude of characters and intersecting stories should be a given, and Simon has amassed a significant number of names for her cast, including Nicole Garcia, Monia Chakri, Francois Damiens, and Reda Kateb.

Prediction: Writer, actress, cinematographer and director Simon has been selected twice before for the Directors’ Fortnight lineup (Ca Brule, 2006; God’s Offices, 2008), but we are predicting an Un Certain Regard selection for this feature.

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Nicholas Bell

Los Angeles based Nicholas Bell is IONCINEMA.com's Chief Film Critic and covers film festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Cannes and TIFF. He is part of the critic groups on Rotten Tomatoes, The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) and GALECA. His top 3 for 2021: France (Bruno Dumont), Passing (Rebecca Hall) and Nightmare Alley (Guillermo Del Toro). He was a jury member at the 2019 Cleveland International Film Festival.