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Hold Up One Minute: Romain Goupil’s Latest Should Crack Cannes Line-Up

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

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?

Romain Goupil Les mains en L'air

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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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