The Festival de Cannes 2026, which runs from May 12 to 23, has unveiled its official selection, and the new film from Agnès Jaoui, L'Objet du délit is set to be shown in Cannes Première, a section devoted to premieres, outside the official competition, which spotlights much-anticipated works often led by established directors. The film will then hit French theaters on May 27, 2026.
Nearly a decade after sitting on the jury under the presidency of Pedro Almodóvar (who is in competition this year himself), and more than twenty years after she and Jean-Pierre Bacri won the Best Screenplay Award for her second film, Like a Image, the French director is set for a high-profile return to the Croisette, alongside the team of her new movie: Daniel Auteuil and Eye Haidara, the ceremony host for this 79th Cannes Film Festival.
Synopsis : In the backstage world of an ambitious staging of the opera "The Marriage of Figaro," tensions flare as a sexual assault accusation surfaces, threatening the production and forcing everyone to take a stand. Conflicts of opinion and generational divides come to light, and as always with Agnès Jaoui, laughter sits close to tragedy.
Trailer:
The Object of the Offense
Film | 2026
In cinemas: May 27, 2026
Dramedy | Runtime :
Directed by Agnès Jaoui | Starring Daniel Auteuil, Agnès Jaoui, Eye Haïdara
Nationality: France, Belgium
