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

#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.