Deauville Festival of American Cinema 2021

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Flag Day Flag Day
Flag Day and Compartment No 6
The Beta Test (Country: US, UK; Year: 2021; Director: Jim Cummings, PJ McCabe; Writer: Jim Cummings, PJ McCabe; Stars: Jim Cummings, Virginia Newcomb, PJ McCabe, Kevin Changaris, Olivia Grace Applegate, Jessie Barr, Christian Hillborg, Malin Barr, Jacqueline Doke, Wilky Lau, Grant Rosenmeyer, Keith Powell, Monroe Cline, Laura Coover, Boni Mata)
A man's life starts to fracture after he receives an unusual invitation.
The Card Counter (Country: UK, China, US; Year: 2021; Director: Paul Schrader; Writer: Paul Schrader; Stars: Oscar Isaac, Willem Dafoe, Tye Sheridan, Tiffany Haddish, Joel Michaely, Ekaterina Baker, Billy Slaughter, Amye Gousset, Hassel Kromer, Calvin Williams, Marlon Hayes, Bobby C. King, Adrienne Lau, Dylan Flashner, Alexander Babara)
William Tell, a for­mer ser­vice­man who became a pok­er play­er, leads a soli­tary exis­tence on the casi­no trail. His path cross­es with Cirk, a vul­ner­a­ble and angry young man obsessed with his plan for revenge and he tries to steer him away from violence.
City Of Lies (Country: UK, US; Year: 2018; Director: Brad Furman; Writer: Randall Sullivan, Christian Contreras; Stars: Johnny Depp, Forest Whitaker, Toby Huss, Dayton Callie, Neil Brown Jr., Louis Herthum, Shea Whigham, Xander Berkeley, Shamier Anderson, Laurence Mason, Christian George, Michael Paré, Amin Joseph, Josh Hardwick, Glenn Plummer)
At the end of the 1990s, 2Pac and The Noto­ri­ous B.I.G. were murdered. Detec­tive Rus­sell Poole spent near­ly 20 years in search of the elu­sive truth with jour­nal­ist Jack Jack­son.
Compartment No 6 (Hytti Nro 6) (Country: Finland, Estonia, Germany, Russia; Year: 2021; Director: Juho Kuosmanen; Writer: Andris Feldmanis, Juho Kuosmanen and Livia Ulman, based on the book by Rosa Liksom; Stars: Yuriy Borisov, Dinara Drukarova, Seidi Haarla, Vladimir Lysenko, Dmitriy Belenikhin)
A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of Murmansk, but is forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a Russian miner.
The Divide (La Fracture) (Country: France; Year: 2021; Director: Catherine Corsini; Writer: Catherine Corsini, Agnès Feuvre, Laurette Polmanss; Stars: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Marina Foïs, Pio Marmaï, Jean-Louis Coulloc'h)
Two women on the verge of a breakup, in a hospital, are further stressed on the night of a big demonstration by the overwhelmed staff and by angry, injured protestors who land up besieging the building.
The Card Counter The Card Counter
The Card Counter and A Hero
Dune (Country: US, Canada; Year: 2021; Director: Denis Villeneuve; Writer: Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve, Eric Roth, based on the novel by Frank Herbert; Stars: Rebecca Ferguson, David Dastmalchian, Jason Momoa, Zendaya, Timothée Chalamet, Josh Brolin, Oscar Isaac, Dave Bautista, Javier Bardem, Stellan Skarsgård, Charlotte Rampling, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Chen Chang, Michael Nardone)
A young man must survive on the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people.
Flag Day (red flag) (Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Sean Penn; Writer: Jez Butterworth, based on the book by Jennifer Vogel; Stars: Katheryn Winnick, Miles Teller, Josh Brolin, Eddie Marsan, Sean Penn, Dale Dickey)
A father lives a double life as a counterfeiter, bank robber and conman in order to provide for his daughter.
A Hero (Ghahreman) (Country: Iran; Year: 2021; Director: Asghar Farhadi; Writer: Asghar Farhadi; Stars: Amir Jadidi, Mohsen Tanabandeh, Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy, Sarina Farhadi)
When an ex-con's decides to try and rehabilitate himself by returning a lost bag of coins and exploiting the media attention, nothing goes to plan.
Kate (Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Cedric Nicolas-Troyan; Writer: Umair Aleem; Stars: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Woody Harrelson, Michiel Huisman, Elysia Rotaru, Tadanobu Asano, Miyavi, Miku Patricia Martineau, Jun Kunimura, Amelia Crouch, Mari Yamamoto, Gemma Brooke Allen, Ulf Pilblad, Ava Caryofyllis, Eoin O'Brien, Cindy Sirinya Bishop)
When an assassin blows an assign­ment, she dis­cov­ers she’s been poi­soned and has less than 24 hours to exact revenge on her killers.
Oslo (Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Bartlett Sher; Writer: JT Rogers; Stars: Ruth Wilson, David Olah, Sam Goldin, Andrew Scott, Karel Dobrý, Tobias Zilliacus, Itzik Cohen, Salim Dau, Doval'e Glickman, Waleed Zuaiter, Zdenek Pecha, Geraldine Alexander, Joachim Paul Assböck, Rotem Keinan, Jeff Wilbusch)
Behind secret back-chan­nel talks, unlike­ly friend­ships, and qui­et hero­ics, a small but com­mit­ted group of Israelis, Pales­tini­ans and one Nor­we­gian cou­ple secret­ly con­duct nego­ti­a­tions that led to the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords.
Dune Dune
Dune and Stillwater
Son Of The South (Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Barry Alexander Brown; Writer: Barry Alexander Brown, Constance Curry, based on the book by Bob Zellner; Stars: Lucas Till, Jim Klock, Michael Sirow, Jake Abel, Cian Genaro, Mike Manning, Lucy Hale, Cedric the Entertainer, Sharonne Lanier, Nicole Ansari-Cox, Bram Fuller, Brendon Fuller, Gina Cielo, Joey Thurmond, Rodney Clark)
A Klansman's grandson is forced to face up to the racism in his own background.
Stillwater (Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Tom McCarthy; Writer: Thomas Bidegain, Noé Debré, Marcus Hinchey, Tom McCarthy; Stars: Matt Damon, Abigail Breslin, Camille Cottin, Deanna Dunagan, Ginifer Ree, Robert Peters, Lena Harmon, Ryan Music, Moussa Maaskri, Dustin Wilson, Justin France, Thomas Rivas, April Warren, Gary Sievers, Lisandro Boccacci)
An American oil rig worker attempts to clear his daughter's name in France, where she is imprisoned.
Two By Two: Overboard! (Ooops The Adventure Continues) (Country: Ireland, Luxembourg; Year: 2020; Director: Toby Genkel, Sean McCormack; Writer: Richie Conroy, Mark Hodkinson; Stars: Max Carolan, Dermot Magennis, Ava Connolly, Tara Flynn, Mary Murray, Brendan McDonald, Carly Kane, Alan Stanford, Aileen Mythen, Paul Tylak, Luke Griffin, Alisha Weir, Joe McDonald, Jacob Mason, Rebecca Walsh)
After the Flood, as Noah’s Ark drifts land­less on the hori­zon, Finny and Leah are pro­pelled over­board marking the start of a race against time.
The Worst Person In The World (Verdens Verste Menneske) (Country: Norway, France, Sweden; Year: 2021; Director: Joachim Trier; Writer: Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt; Stars: Anders Danielsen Lie, Renate Reinsve, Herbert Nordrum)
Four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.
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