23 05 2007 - Cannes Fim Festival: The Banishment, a film based on a William Saroyan's story

Jean Eckian / Paris
Cannes Fim Festival: The Banishment, a film based on a William Saroyan's story
« The Banishment » directed by Andreï Zvyagintsev takes part in the official selection of Cannes's Festival. The film is based on "The Laughing Matter", a novel by William Saroyan on a script by Artem Melkoumian.

The story: A husband, wife and two children (a boy and a girl) come from an industrial city to the countryside, to the husband's birthplace, to stay in his father's old house. In the center of this nature, the woman reveals to her husband that it is pregnant of another man.

This film is about all of us – kind, beautiful people in the tragic circumstances of hopelessness.

It has been four years since Andrey Zvyagintsev was honoured with the Golden Lion at the Venice Festival for his first film, The Return. his second film, The Banishment, screening in Competition brings the Russian director to Cannes for the first time. With Konstantin Lavronenko (Alex), Maria Bonnevie (Maria) and Alexander Baluev (Mark).

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