A Cannes label title which screens in Toronto and San Sebastian, Spring Blossom should find further interest on the festival circuit. 73 mins. By using this site you are agreeing to our privacy and cookie policy. This FAQ is empty. The sylph-slight story is given weight by Lindon’s performance. Dea Kulumbegashvili • Director of Beginning“In Georgia, as a woman, you're trained to accept that you don't really matter”, Gregory Kershaw and Michael Dweck • Directors of The Truffle Hunters“Truffle hunters would never tell another truffle hunter that they’d found a truffle”, Ben Sharrock • Director of Limbo“I started to question the dehumanising representations of refugees”, Imanol Rayo • Director of Death Knell"My film eschews the commonplace", Pascal Rabaté • Director of The Voiceless"They try to move forwards and have fun in spaces which are forbidden to others", Subscribe to our newsletter to receive the most important daily or weekly news on European cinema, FERA celebrates 40-year anniversary online, FOCAL’s Audience & Market Strategies wraps in Zurich, Beginning triumphs at San Sebastián with four awards, San Sebastián 2020 San Sebastián Industry, San Sebastián 2020 San Sebastián Industry/Awards, Argentina shines at San Sebastián's industry events, Arte France Cinéma to co-produce Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Les herbes sèches, Watch on Cineuropa: A brave new world - Films championing diversity, migration and new ways of being, An all-out recovery plan is announced for French cinema.

Lindon’s extreme youth is one selling point, but certainly not the only one – this is a film with real charm which should serve as a launchpad for her career both as a director and, perhaps more so, as an actor. Suzanne Lindon makes her acting and directorial debut with remarkable assurance - and success, Dir/scr Suzanne Lindon.

The story revolves around Suzanne (Suzanne Lindon), a sixteen-year-old who longs for more stimulating interaction than she gets from her … There’s a point in adolescence at which time seems to slow down. It's autobiographical because when I was 15 – so one year younger than the character in the film, but it's the same, really – I think I was more interested in my fantasies than I was in the life I was living. Film Festival Review, Filmfest Hamburg’s Albert Wiederspiel on the importance of introducing new talent to audiences, Filmfest Hamberg’s Albert Wiederspiel on the importance of introducing new talent to audiences. Suzanne (Suzanne Lindon) is sixteen. At a Jewish funeral service with her parents, a college student runs into her sugar daddy. All of the generations. Did you enjoy reading this article? I was obsessed with things that I wasn't able to experience. 73 mins.

Search for "Spring Blossom" on Amazon.com, Title: There’s a point in adolescence at which time seems to slow down. A teenager discovers the world of urban horseback riding when he moves in with his estranged father in North Philadelphia. How does that change the story?It's important because she is bored with people her age, and she has no tools to fight against the fact that she is bored: no phones, no games, no social media, no way to talk to anyone else.

Suzanne (Lindon) is a 16-year-old Parisian schoolgirl who has grown bored with the offerings of her peers.

Did you see yourself as an actor or a director?I really wanted to act – that was the first thing I wanted to do – but my parents [Vincent Lindon and Sandrine Kiberlain] are actors. W&H: Describe the film for us in your own words. Little by little, I discovered that I had many passions and that I could create a film in which I could do it all at the same time. 2020. Suzanne Lindon’s debut feature, Spring Blossom [+ see also: film review trailer interview: Suzanne Lindon film profile], is a personal tale of love between a teenage girl and a thirty-something man, which was awarded the Cannes 2020 label and is now unspooling in …

France. Cineuropa: What made you want to write a film, which you direct and star in, about a young girl's emotional connection with an older guy?Suzanne Lindon: Everything started naturally for me because I was 15 when I wrote the script, and it was the summer before starting high school. A new documentary from Werner Herzog about meteors and comets and their influence on ancient religions and other cultural and physical impacts they've had on Earth. Use the HTML below. Every day to go to high school, she walks past a theater. I didn't want anything to tell the audience which period the film was taking place in. My Working From Home Life: Kim Yutani, Sundance Film Festival director of programming, ‘Limbo’ director Ben Sharrock aims his lens at the refugee crisis, Cannes Film Festival 2020 returns to the Croisette with compact edition; confirms 2021 dates, Six talking points from the Zurich Summit, ‘Forgotten We’ll Be’: San Sebastian Review (closing film), Copyright © 2019 Media Business Insight Limited, Stars of Tomorrow and exclusive supplements. (as Arthur Giusi-Périer). Part of the official selection at this year’s Cannes Film Festival that never was, Spring Blossom sees Suzanne Lindon, daughter of renowned French actors Vincent Lindon and Sandrine Kiberlain, direct and star in a debut feature about first love. “Spring Blossom” is her first film.

Lindon is the daughter of two of France’s most renowned actors, Vincent Lindon and Sandrine Kiberlain, and the harmony of Suzanne’s bourgeois household — … Directed by Suzanne Lindon.

Caught between childhood and the adult world, it’s a moment which stretches out interminably. There’s an angular quality to the way that she holds herself; even her dark hair sets her apart from the pastel-hues of the others. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Why?It was very important for me that the movie should not have any connection with all these social media or phones, or anything that is linked to our present time, because I wanted everybody to be able to recognise themselves in the feature. The agonies of anticipation of something – anything – happening make the daily routine seem suddenly unbearable.