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Cannes 2010’s Top 10 New Faces: Introducing Monia Chokri

What a way to begin a long film career. Bang Bang…this baby shot me down. I’m referring to actress Monia Chokri who had the great fortune of being sprinkled with gold dust, offered the Jeanne Moreau with touches of Jackie O role in Xavier Dolan’s stylized sophomore feature.
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#3. Monia Chokri

What a way to begin a long film career. Bang Bang…this baby shot me down. I’m referring to actress Monia Chokri who had the great fortune of being sprinkled with gold dust, offered the Jeanne Moreau with touches of Jackie O role in Xavier Dolan’s stylized sophomore feature. Her character – an eccentric highly articulated femme fatale is easily the film’s more interesting character – and now Chokri is on her way to a very long and prosperous career on the local Quebecois scene with possibilities of moving onto the market in France. Heartbeats will be shown stateside this year and this will have a long film festival life that Dolan’s debut film had. 

 
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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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