Emmanuelle Bercort’s “La Tête Haute” (Standing Tall) has a positive message and an expectedly fine performance from Catherine Deneuve but is an overly long mixed bag of troubled youth clichés.
Review: Cannes' opener 'Standing Tall' can't avoid the courtroom clichés
Posted by Gregory Ellwood · 4:27 am · May 13th, 2015
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A female directed film will open the Cannes Film Festival for the first time in 28 years
Posted by Gregory Ellwood · 10:52 am · April 13th, 2015
“La Tête haute” will open the 2015 Cannes Film Festival and that makes Emmanuelle Bercot the first woman to direct the opening night film since Diane Kurys’ “A Man in Love” in 1987.
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