Tomorrow the director Laurent Cantet presents his “L'Atelier” at the cinema around Vesuvius

Director Laurent Cantet presents his “L'atelier” on July 6th, for the first time in Campania; with him Consul General Jean-Paul Seytre introduced by Antonella Di Nocera
On Friday 6 July at 21.15:XNUMX pm, director Laurent Cantet, winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes for “La classe”, will be a guest at “Cinema intorno al Vesuvio”, the film festival organised by Arci Movie at Villa Bruno, where he will present, for the first time in Campania, his “L'atelier”; the director will be joined by Consul General Jean-Paul Seytre, introduced by Antonella Di Nocera. The evenings with guests are curated by Antonella Di Nocera and Roberto D'Avascio.
Ten years after winning the Palme d'Or for the extraordinary “The Class”, Laurent Cantet returns to tell the story of today's political and generational conflicts with a highly original thriller, “L'Atelier”, written with Robin Campillo (“BPM”), which was successfully received at the last Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section.
The film's protagonist is Olivia Dejazet, an established crime writer who has to hold a writing workshop in La Ciotat, a city in the south of France once known for its shipyards but now in the midst of an economic crisis. Among her young students, Antoine stands out, an introverted and talented boy, often at odds with the others on political issues due to his racist and aggressive positions. Antoine's attitude becomes increasingly violent as the days go by and Olivia seems to be scared and attracted by him at the same time, until the situation dramatically gets out of hand for both of them...
“The film is set in La Ciotat,” says Laurent Cantet, “a city that at the end of the 80s experienced a great season of workers’ struggles after the closure of the shipyards. Our aim was to bear witness to the radical transformation of a society that, probably due to the political and economic crisis, no longer has any relationship with that world of the past – a world that the older generations would like not to disappear. What the young participants in the writing workshop say is that they do not want to take on that past, which does not belong to them in any way. Today, in fact, they have to deal with a series of completely different problems: finding their place in a world that holds them in low regard, the feeling of having no control over things and much less over their own lives. But, above all, they are forced to deal with a violent society torn apart by terrible political and social issues, such as economic instability, terrorism or the rise of the far right. The cast is mostly made up of young newcomers, selected through open castings in bars, gyms, theaters, and schools. Among them, Matthieu Lucci, who plays Antoine, was truly an incredible discovery. One day he confessed to me how much he hated what his character did and how much it made him suffer to play him, but on set he was always open to tackling the most difficult things I asked of him. He has the ability to attack and confront five or six people with such conviction that, after finishing a scene, he had to go and apologize to those who still didn't know him, explaining that it was just his character.
LAURENT CANTET
direction and screenplay
Born in 1961, the son of teachers, he graduated from the prestigious film school La Fémis in Paris. After working as Marcel Ophuls' assistant, he directed his first short film, Tous à la manif, in 1994, winning the Jean Vigo Award. His feature film debut came in 1999 with Human Resources, which, together with the subsequent Full Time, made him one of the most appreciated European directors. In 2008, he brought the Palme d'Or back to France after 20 years thanks to The Class, which, in addition to its triumph at Cannes, received an Oscar nomination and was a huge success with audiences and critics around the world. After participating in the collective film 7 Days in Havana, he shot Foxfire in the United States, based on the novel by Joyce Carol Oates, while the following year he was back in Cuba for Return to Havana. L'Atelier, presented at Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section, is his latest film. Show start time > 21.15 pm

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