2023-08-31 18:03:03
Welcomed to the applause of a particularly enthusiastic press room, Luc Besson presented “DogMan” at the Mostra this Thursday. A return to directing through the front door. And a film that is arguably one of his best in a long time. Article reserved for subscribers Journalist in the Culture department By Gaëlle Moury Published on 08/31/2023 at 20:03 Reading time: 2 min
Face closed, features drawn, Luc Besson was visibly tense when he arrived at a press conference on the Lido on Thursday. In the trough of the wave for years, the star French director, screenwriter and producer of the 1990s faced legal setbacks, with several accusations of abuse and a complaint for rape from actress Sand Van Roy, dismissed definitively. by the courts last June following five years of proceedings. But also commercial, chaining the failures with his last films, in particular Anna (in 2019) and Valerian (in 2017), plunging EuropaCorp, its production company, into turmoil (placed in safeguard procedure in 2019).
It is therefore an almost unexpected return, through the front door, that he operates in Venice, presenting there in competition DogMan, his 19th feature film. The story of a bruised child, who finds salvation thanks to the love of his dogs… A story inspired by an article that the French director read in the press.
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