Deauville Festival of American Cinema 2021

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Birds Of America (Country: France; Year: 2021; Director: Jacques Loeuille; Writer: Jacques Loeuille)
Intent on paint­ing all the birds of Amer­i­ca, John-James Audubon became a cen­tral fig­ure of America’s nation­al iden­ti­ty. But as these birds start­ed dis­ap­pear­ing with the dawn of the indus­tri­al era, so did the original American Dream.
JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass (Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Oliver Stone; Writer: James DiEugenio; Stars: Donald Sutherland, Whoopi Goldberg)
Thirty years after his film JFK, filmmaker Oliver Stone takes viewers on a journey through recently declassified evidence in the assassination of President Kennedy.
Jim Carrey, America Unmasked (Country: France; Year: 2021; Director: Thibaut Sève & Adrien Dénouette)
Documentary profile of the Canadian actor.
Michael Cimino, God Bless America (Michael Cimino, Un mirage américain) (Country: France; Year: 2021; Director: Jean-Baptiste Thoret; Writer: Jean-Baptiste Thoret; Stars: Michael Cimino, Tommy Fitzgerald, Jim Freiling, Kathy Freiling, John Savage, Oliver Stone, Quentin Tarantino, James Toback, Stanley White)
A bio­graph­i­cal jour­ney, into the films, the life and the mem­o­ry of Michael Cimi­no, who passed away in 2016, at the age of 77, after spend­ing 20 years dream­ing of films that nev­er saw the light of the day.
The State of Texas vs Melissa (Country: France; Year: 2020; Director: Sabrina Van Tassel)
Melissa Lucio was the first Hispanic woman sentenced to death in Texas. For ten years she has been awaiting her fate, and now faces her last appeal.
Val (Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Ting Poo, Leo Scott; Stars: Val Kilmer)
Documentary portrait of the actor Val Kilmer.
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