No official announcement has been made yet by the fest, but it looks les films du losange, the French distibution co. will see a fourth film in this year’s Cannes line-up (added to the previously announced Chantrapas, Des filles en noir and Cleveland Vs. Wall Street). The culprit is a former winner of the Camera D’or back in 1982 for Mourir à 30 ans in Romain Goupil, a name I’m not familiar with would return to the fest with Les mains en L’air (a.k.a. “Hands Up”) a drama starring Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Hippolyte Girardot and loads of child actors. This focuses on Milana who remembers a life when she was a young Chechen immigrant in Paris, struggling for a better life along with her school friends. Question is: If Julie Bertucelli’s The Tree has indeed declined the closing night slot, would this picture follow suit?
