October 24, 2022

France Odeon 2022

Until November 1 the festival dedicated to French cinema returns to Florence

France Odeon is back. From October 28 to November 1st 2022, the 14th edition of the Florence’s French film festival, directed by Francesco Ranieri Martinotti, with the presidency of Enrico Castaldi and made in collaboration with Institut Français Firenze and Fondazione Sistema Toscana. The inauguration will take place at the cinema La Compagnia on Friday 28 at 6.45 p.m. with the film Maestro(s) by Bruno Chiche and interpreted by Yvan Attal and Pierre Arditi in which is told a conflictual hand over between two orchestra directors, father and son in the real life. The festival decided to dedicate the opening night to Yuriy Kerpatenko, the director of the Philharmonic of Kherson murdered by the Russian occupation in Ukraine, inviting some of the directors of the national scene to express their indignation by doing a minute of silence.

In the Italian premier, the festival presents a selection of the best transalpine film production in front of directors, actors and producers. Even this year the films in competition will be in lists for the Foglia d’oro award– Manetti Battiloro, assigned by a professional jury of the cinema, and the Regards Méditerranéens award, commissioned by the president Enrico Castaldi who wants to enhance the themes linked with the culture of the Mediterranean countries.

In the 2022 jury the director Fabio Grassadonia, the producer Riccardo Neri and the Italian song legend Caterina Caselli, people who will judge the 14° edition films from different sides and in different roles. This year, the young jury is coordinate again from the critic Alain Bichon.

Another news is the collaboration with the Angoulême film festival, the most important festival of the cinema in the French-speaking world, directed by Marie-France Brière e Dominique Besnehard.

France Odeon has also undertaken in a film production: Passion cinema, a rare case for a festival. Directed by Francesco Ranieri Martinotti and produced by Enrico Castaldi (cinema la Compagnia, Sunday 30 October, 7 p.m.), the film includes 23 testimonies of the most important festival friends, Italians and French who describe how the cinema of the other Country has affected its own artistic career.

To conclude the event the film of François Ozon, a famous author of the international cinema, Peter von Kant, presented at the last Berlin Festival and interpreted by Denis Ménochet, Isabelle Adjani and Hanna Schygulla (cinema la Compagnia, Tuesday 1 November, 7 p.m.). Peter, a successful director, lives with Karl, all do attendant who adores him and apologizes each abuse of power. But then arrives the young and seductive Amir, and it is love at first sight with Peter and everything change.

THE PROGRAMME

FRIDAY 28 OCTOBER
LA COMPAGNIA CINEMA
18.45 - OPENING CEREMONY
FOLLOWING OPENING FILM Maestro(s) by Bruno Chiche
21:30 - Tirailleurs by Mathieu Vadepied

SATURDAY 29 OCTOBER
FRENCH INSTITUTE
10.30 a.m. - HOMAGE TO GODARD Détectivedi Jean-Luc Godard
CINEMA THE COMPANY
16.30 - Annie Colère by Blandine Lenoir
FRENCH INSTITUTE
17:30 - BOOK PRESENTATION A smile and an enigma - a monograph on Michel Piccoli - by Marco Luceri
LA COMPAGNIA CINEMA
20:30 - Chronique d'une liaison passagère by Emmanuel Mouret
22:30 - OUT OF COMPETITION L'innocent by Louis Garrel

SUNDAY 30 OCTOBER
FRENCH INSTITUTE
11:00 am - OUT OF COMPETITION Sur les pas de celui qui a tué trosky. Ramòn Mercader by Marie-France Brière
CINEMA LA COMPAGNIA
16:30 - OUT OF COMPETITION Youssef salem a du succès by Baya Kasmi
19:00 - OUT OF COMPETITION Passion cinéma by Francesco Ranieri Martinotti
21:15 - Stella est amoureuse by Sylvie Verheyde

MONDAY 31 OCTOBER
CINEMA THE COMPANY
16.30 - La grande magie by Noémie Lvovsky
20.30 -L'année du requin by Ludovic Boukherma and Zoran Boukherma
22.25 - En même temps by Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern

TUESDAY 1 NOVEMBER
CINEMA THE COMPANY
16.30 - Les amandiers by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
19.00 - AWARD CEREMONY
Presentation of the Manetti Battiloro Golden Leaf Awards
FOLLOWING CLOSING FILM Peter Von Kant by François Ozon