One of the movies that will premiere In Competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival is an upcoming French drama titled Polisse, and we're here today to have a little chat about a project that definitely deserves our attention.
And no, it's not just because Maiwenn Le Besco was in charge for this one, although I'm sure you all remember her as the Diva from Luc Besson‘s The Fifth Element.
Polisse is a movie that follows a journalist covering the juvenile unit of a police force, and it's a story both written and directed by Maiwenn Le Besco (or, simply Maiwenn). As usual, she's the part of the cast, too, and the rest of the cast includes Karin Viard, Marina Foïs, Joey Starr, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Karole Rocher and Lou Doillon.
Here' the synopsis for Polisse: Fred, a rebel at the juvenile division in Paris, falls for Mélissa, a photographer appointed by the Ministry for the Interior to do a documentary on him. Torn between Fred and the world that is open to him, and her fickle and rich conductor husband, François, how will Mélissa, from her very bourgeois 16th arrondissement of Paris cope with understanding the violent reality of Fred's life?
This project is produced by Les Productions du Trésor' Alain Attal who looks quite excited about the whole thing saying:
“By following the path of ‘Polisse', I've above all been following the path of a filmmaker whose first films touched me, shocked me and intrigued me. The subject matter and the images of the first days of the shoot proved to me right away that I hadn't made a mistake with this filmmaker, and that the film would be powerful and true. Today, I am looking at a finished film that to me appears so modern and staggering that every day I thank Maiwenn for giving me the chance to be her accompanist.”
At the end, let us remind you that Maiwenn's 2006 title Pardonnez-Moi received two Cesar nominations and 2008 title The Actress' Ball brought together several famous French femmes for the faux documentary.
So we have no doubt that Polisse will have a good luck at Cannes this time as well.
