According to Hollywood Reporter, Comme un avion with Agnes Jaoui is among the French contenders for Cannes Film festival

As every year, Todd McCarthy has written a piece on Hollywood Reporter, about the movies from all over the world that might be at Cannes Film Festival. Comme un avion by Bruno Podalydes, with Agnes Jaoui, is among the French contenders. Some of the others are the new movies by Rappenau, Desplechin, Audiard, Louis Garrel, Giannoli, Noe:

 Cannes: Todd McCarthy on the Possibilities, Probabilities and Near-Shoo-Ins 


".....The Cannes selection committee always waits until the very end of its deliberations to choose the French films for the competition, so quite a few high-profile filmmakers will have to sweat it out for several more weeks before learning if they're in or out. Among the leading contenders: Veteran 82-year-old director Jean-

Paul Rappeneau, who hasn't made a film in 12 years but now has finished Belle Familles, which stars Mathieu Almaric, Karin Viard, Nicole Garcia, Andre Dussolier and Marine Vacth; Arnaud Desplechin, who also has Almaric in Nos Arcadies (My Golden Years), a “sort-of prequel” to his 1996 My Sex Life...or How I Got Into An Argument; Jacques Audiard, whose last two films, A Prophet and Rust and Bone, played in the Cannes competition, is now pushing hard to finish Erran, a banlieu-set thriller about a Sri Lankan Tamil fighter; and Maiwenn, who scored with her first feature, Polisse, four years ago, and now has completed Mon Roi, a drama starring Vincent Cassel, Louis Garrel and Emmanuelle Bercot. The Garrel family could be omnipresent on the Riviera in May. Louis Garrel has finished his first directorial outing, Les Deux Amis (The Two Friends), in which he also co-stars, while his veteran director father Philippe has wrapped up his latest, L'ombre des Femmes (Women's Shadow).

Among the numerous other French contenders are Bruno Podalydes' Comme Un Avion, featuring Sandrine Kilberlain and Agnes Jaoui; the latest from Xavier Giannoli (whose The Singer and In the Beginning were both in the Cannes competition), Marguerite, about a singer in the 1920s and starring Catherine Frot and Christa Theret; Valerie Donzelli's Marguerite et Julien, based on an unfilmed 1971 screenplay by Francois Truffaut; Gaspar Noe's sex-loaded Love; and Eva Husson's debut feature Bang Gang, reportedly with boundary-pushing teen sex...." To read all the article click here