Marine Atlan’s directorial debut, “La Gradiva,” wins the top Ami Paris Grand Prize at Cannes Critics’ Week. Across coverage, the film is described as a first feature by the French filmmaker that centers on a group of French high-school seniors traveling on a school trip to Naples. In Naples, the students explore historical sites connected to Pompeii and Vesuvius, including the ruins of Pompeii and the bodies said to be petrified by the eruption. Multiple outlets also highlight the film’s focus on the inner lives of the teenagers, describing them as fully realized characters and emphasizing an emotionally grounded depiction of youth, rather than relying on standard high-school movie tropes. The Hollywood Reporter and Deadline both report that the film takes the highest honor within the Critics’ Week sidebar for first and second features, while IndieWire characterizes the overall story as “wholly transporting,” underlining its restraint and attention to character. Together, the reports frame “La Gradiva” as both an acclaimed entry in Cannes parallel programming and a youth-centered drama shaped by art, place, and adolescent emotion.
Marine Atlan’s ‘La Gradiva’ wins Cannes Critics’ Week top prize
Marine Atlan’s directorial debut, “La Gradiva,” wins the top Ami Paris Grand Prize at Cannes Critics’ Week. Across coverage, the film is described as a first feature by the French filmmaker that cente...
- “La Gradiva,” directed by Marine Atlan, wins the top Ami Paris Grand Prize at Cannes Critics’ Week.
- The film is Atlan’s directorial debut and is set around French high-school seniors on a school trip to Naples.
- The trip involves the ruins of Pompeii and the petrified bodies associated with Vesuvius.
- Reviewers describe the teenage characters as fully developed and the film as avoiding typical high-school movie tropes.
- Coverage presents the film as a Cannes Critics’ Week standout, with some outlets specifically noting its emotional honesty and transportive storytelling.
Cannes: Mercifully free of typical high school movie tropes, the teenagers at the heart of Marine Atlan’s film are fully realized people, allowing this stunning work to reach toward the sublime.
3 months agoCinematographer turned director Marine Atlan’s first feature, which won Cannes Critics’ Week prize, follows a class of high school seniors on a school trip to Naples.
3 months agoMarine Atlan's directorial debut, about a group of French teenagers on a school trip to Naples, took top honors in the Cannes sidebar for first and second features.
3 months agoFrench director Marine Atlan’s La Gradiva has scooped the top Ami Paris Grand Prize in the competition of Cannes parallel section Critics’ Week. The first film follows a group of French high-school students who travel to Naples on a school trip to discover the ruins of Pompeii and the bodies petrified by Vesuvius. Emotions and […]
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