EXCLUSIVE: French director Jean-Bernard Marlin made waves in Cannes Critics’ Week in 2018 with Marseille-set feature debut Shéhérazade about the relationship between a young prostitute and an underage ex-convict who becomes her pimp.
The film went on to win best first film alongside most promising actress and actor for Kenza Fortas and Dylan Robert at the 2019 edition of France’s César awards.
Marlin returns to Cannes this year with his second feature Salem which world premieres in Un Certain Regard. Like Shéhérazade, the feature captures the reality of Marseille’s notoriously crime and poverty-ridden northern quarters with a documentary approach but differs in that Marlin has added a layer of fantasy to the tale. “I don’t invent anything in what I am showing, but at the same time, this film is a work of the imagination.
It’s an allegory, with dreamlike and fantasy qualities,” says Marlin. The film follows Comorian teenager Djibril who gets involved with a Romani girl living in a rival neighborhood.
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