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Richard Linklater’s Latest Film to Open Chanel-Backed Nouvelles Vagues Festival in Biarritz With Sofia Coppola Set as Guest of Honor
Supported by Chanel, Nouvelles Vagues Festival in Biarritz will open with Richard Linklater's film and host Sofia Coppola as its guest of honor.
On the following day, Sofia Coppola, the festival’s guest of honor, will attend a screening of “Virgin Suicides” to celebrate its 25-year anniversary and take part in a masterclass before an audience filled with film students. Along with Nouvelles Vagues founder and president Jérôme Pulis, general delegate Sandrine Brauer and programming director Lili Hinstin, and Chanel president of fashion Bruno Pavlovsky, many friends and ambassadors of the fashion house, as well as leading industry figures turned up at the celebratory Grand Café dinner, notably “Happening” director Audrey Diwan, author Anne Berest (“Vie Privée”), filmmaker Ramata Toulaye Sy (“Banel & Adama”), MK2 Films co-CEO Elisha Karmitz (“It Was Just an Accident”), Michele Halberstadt (“Nouvelle Vague”), producer Hugo Selignac from Paris-based Chi-Fou-Mi (“Beating Hearts”), actors Ana Girardot (“The Count of Monte Cristo”), Dali Benssalah (“Athena”), Virginie Ledoyen (“Just the Two of Us”), Finnegan Oldfield (“Alpha”) and Rebecca Marder (“Mon crime”). Several members of this year’s jury also showed up at the event, including the filmmakers Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma (“And Their Children After Them”) and Mallory Wanecque (“Beating Hearts”).
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