Un Certain Regard, the Cannes Festival 2024 selection showcasing young cinema from France and around the world, has just completed its selection. Niki, the first film by Céline Sallette, has just joined this 2024 vintage.
The film is a biopic of Niki de Saint Phalle, played by Charlotte Le Bon. The Quebec actress is joined by Damien Bonnard, John Robinson (IV) and Judith Chemla. Paris 1952, Niki has settled in France with her husband and daughter, far from a stifling America and family. But despite the distance, Niki is regularly shaken by reminiscences of her childhood that invade her thoughts. From the hell she's about to discover, Niki finds in art a weapon to free herself.
"Catherine Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle, renamed Niki by her mother at the age of four, decided to devote herself fully to art in 1953. Joining the Nouveaux Réalistes group - which included Swiss artist Jean Tinguely, whom she married for the second time in 1971 - Niki de Saint Phalle produced her first Tirs tableaux-performances in 1961, and began creating her famous feminist Nanas sculptures in glued paper and resin in 1964, before working from the 1970s on monumental installation projects such as the Tarot Garden in Italy and the Stravinsky Fountain in Paris... In 1972, she made the experimental film Daddy in collaboration with director Peter Whitehead. "Unifrance reminds us.
Niki, Céline Sallette's first feature film, is in contention for the Caméra d'Or 2024.
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