Amira Casar as president and Once Upon a Time in a Cinema opening at the Dinard Festival

She was born in London, grew up between France, Ireland and the United Kingdom. Amira Casar was predestined for this role. The Franco-English actress, seen in The Truth If I Mens or as the caring mother of Timothée Chalamet in Call Me By Your Name, will chair the jury of the 37^th edition of the British and Irish film festival in Dinard, which will take place from October 7 to 11.

“In the cinema, she appeared in more than 80 films. AfterThe Truth if I Lie which earned her a César nomination, she worked with major directors including the Quay brothers, Catherine Breillat(Anatomy of Hell),Carlos Saura, Bertrand Bonello(Saint Laurent),Lucas Guadagnino(Call Me by Your Name,Oscar for Best Screenplay). And more recently: Sarah Bernhardt, the divine,Honeyjoon awarded at the Tribeca Festival, and The Wild Party”, recall the organizers. Amira Casar knows the Dinard festival well. In 2000, invited to the closing ceremony, she presented the king trophy for best, the Hitchcock d’Or, to Billy Elliot.

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An Irish film opens

The Dinard festival also announced on Friday that it would be the Irish comedy Once Upon a Time in a Cinema which would open the festivities. Directed by David Gleeson, screenwriter of the controversial biopicTolkien, this film summons nostalgia for the 80s when “going to the cinema every week, and preferably on a Friday evening was an essential ritual”. Bringing together veterans of the Irish cinema and young up-and-comers,Once Upon a Time In a Cinematakes place during a screening.

The twists and turns that take place off-screen are as revealing as those projected on-screen. Colin Morgan (Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Merlin) plays Earl Clancy, the cinema operator in a small town, who tries to deal with a hellish Friday night caused by a succession of disasters (rats, water damage, etc.), while considering the sale of the establishment to an unsavory politician. What future exists for its cinema when these spectators swear by the arrival of VHS in their homes?

The rest of the programming for this 37^th edition and the names of the stars who will be able to travel to the Emerald Coast will be announced at the start of the school year.