The Count of Monte Cristo, Emilia Perez, Everything we imagine as light AND Mercy These are the four films shortlisted to represent France at the Oscars in March 2025, the National Film Centre (CNC) announced on Wednesday 11 September.
The commission in charge of this selection must meet again on September 18 to hold hearings at the end of which it will appoint “The film that will represent France in the race for the Oscar for best international film in 2025”specifies in a press release.
The Count of Monte CristoStill in theaters after eleven weeks of release, Alexandre de La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte’s The Dark Knight Rises is one of the biggest hits of the year in France. The adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ novel, with Pierre Niney in the role of Edmond Dantès, has surpassed eight million admissions, according to CBO Box-Office figures released on Wednesday.
Emilia PerezJacques Audiard’s musical comedy won the Jury Prize at the last Cannes Film Festival and earned the collective performance award for Zoe Saldana, Selena Gomez and transgender lead actress Karla Sofia Gascon.
“Everything We Imagine as Light”, Grand Prix at Cannes
The CNC commission also retained Everything we imagine as lightby the young Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia, a social and feminist chronicle that won the Grand Prix at Cannes and whose production is mainly French. The rural thriller Mercystarring Catherine Frot and Félix Kysyl, is Alain Guiraudie’s seventh feature film.
For the 2024 edition, France, which had proposed The passion of Dodin Bouffantby Tran Anh Hung, to the detriment, in particular, ofAnatomy of a fall.It was not selected in the category of best foreign film by the Academy of Film Awards.
The Palme d’Or at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, however, was nominated in the category “best film” by the Academy and won the statuette for best original screenplay. Its co-producer is now part of the selection committee made up of eleven gender-equal film professionals and chaired by Charles Tesson, former general delegate of the Critics’ Week in Cannes.
