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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2012: #40. Laurent Cantet’s Foxfire

It’ll be a great 2012 for fans of the Palme d’Or winning director Laurent Cantet, as he explores both Havana (La Fuente) with his Sunday piece in 7 Days and with this English language first. With The Class, the filmmaker certainly felt at ease working with teens, and something tells me that this 50’s piece will be just as poignant.

Eric Lavallée

Published on January 7, 2012

#40. Foxfire

Director/Writer: Laurent Cantet
Producers: Simon Arnal, Caroline Benjo, Barbara Letellier, Carole Scotta, Simone Urdl and Jennifer Weiss
Distributor: Rights Available

The Gist: Based on Joyce Carole Oates’s novel Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang, this is set in a working-class district of a small town in New York State in the 1950s. In this violent post-war culture controlled by men, a group of headstrong teenage girls unite into a sisterhood of blood: they form the Foxfire gang, a secret female-only society, recognized by the flame tattooed on the back of its members’ shoulders...(more)

Cast: Comprised of unknown actresses.

List Worthy Reasons…: It’ll be a great 2012 for fans of the Palme d’Or winning director Laurent Cantet, as he explores both Havana (La Fuente) with his Sunday piece in 7 Days and with this English language first. With The Class, the filmmaker certainly felt at ease working with teens, and something tells me that this 50’s piece will be just as poignant.

Release Date/Status?: Cannes 2012 is obviously a huge possibilty.

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Eric Lavallée

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).