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Day 6: Live from Cannes: France invades Sweden in ‘Les Grandes Personnes’

One of my last screenings at this year’s Critic’s Week sidebar, Grown Ups is a sappy story about an imperfect father/daughter relationship that geographical takes place in the roughage offered in some Swedish connecting islands. Anna Novion’s Swedish-French co-production had all the players in attendance including Jean-Pierre Darroussin.
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One of my last screenings at this year’s Critic’s Week sidebar, Grown Ups is a sappy story about an imperfect father/daughter relationship that geographical takes place in the roughage offered in some Swedish connecting islands. Anna Novion‘s Swedish-French co-production had all the players in attendance including Jean-Pierre Darroussin.

 Anna Novion - Grandes Personnes

Director Anna Novion

 Anna Novion Grandes Personnes

Director and lead actor….

Jean Pierre Darroussin - Grandes Personnes

Veteran actor Jean-Pierre Darroussin

Anaïs Demoustier Grandes Personnes

Typical French girl: Anaïs Demoustier

 

Judith Henry Grandes Personnes

Demoustier (female lead) and Judith Henry (supporting actress)

Lia Boysen and Björn Gustafsson

Swedish cast: Lia Boysen and Björn Gustafsson

Nicholas Engel

Nicolas Engel and fellow actress presented the short film La copie de Coralie, a musical set in a photo copy shop.

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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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