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By Emma Jones
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image captionSuzanne Lindon plays a schoolgirl in a platonic relationship with the 30-something Raphael, played by Arnaud Valois
Chloé Zhao may have just won her first best director Oscar at the age of 39 for Nomadland - but away from the awards ceremonies, a younger French woman is celebrating simply having made her first feature film aged 19.
Suzanne Lindon, who turned 21 this month, wrote the screenplay for Spring Blossom at the age of 15, and then directed and starred in the film while she was still a teenager. I think what gave me confidence to try directing was my desire to act, she says. I always wanted to do it and I m from an acting family in France. I needed to feel legitimate in choosing that path, so the way I found was to write my own role.
Á Nos Amours changed its name from
Suzanne just ahead of its theatrical release.
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“I was lucky to be 19 when I directed it, because I had clear ideas on adolescence,” says Lindon, who is now 20, over Zoom from Paris in the middle of April. “Sometimes when you watch movies about young people by adults, they write about what they remember, and it’s beautiful to have their memories. But I wanted to give my point of view of that age, because it’s a complicated period when you discover yourself, and when you’re more interested in fantasies than real life.
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The French Film Festival (FFF) in Romania celebrates 25 years of existence with an anniversary summer edition that will take place July 1 - 11, in the cities of Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Iasi, Timisoara, Brasov, Braila, Constanta, Sfantu Gheorghe, Sibiu and Suceava, reports agerpres.
According to a press statement released by the French Institute on Tuesday, moviegoers are invited to this year s edition to watch the newest and most remarkable French films, both in cinemas and outdoors, in compliance with the COVID-19 health regulations, as well as on line, for the first time in the history of the festival.
Organisers have designed five sections of five films each. The festival also brings a lot of novelties for this edition.
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