Here are the two French films acclaimed by Barack Obama in 2022 – OI Canadian

Former President of the United States, Barack Obama, has unveiled the list of films he liked in 2022. Surprise: two French directors are in this selection.

For several years, Barack Obama has been sharing, always at the end of December, his musical, literary and cinema selection of the year which is about to end. The former president of the United States has everything of a movie buff according to his 2022 list published on social networks on Christmas Eve.

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“Little Mom” ​​and “The Event”

17 films particularly caught the attention of Barack Obama in 2022. There are “Top Gun Maverick” with Tom Cruise, “The Woman King”, with Viola Davis, or even “A Hero” by Iranian director Asghar Farhadi. “Tar” by Todd Field and “The Fabelmans” by Steven Spielberg, which will arrive in France in a few weeks, are also in the selection.

More amazing choices are in this list. Two French films – released in France in 2021 and in 2022 in the United States – pleased the husband of Michelle Obama. These are “Little Mum” by Céline Sciamma (“Portrait of the young girl on fire”), selected for the BAFTA 2022 in the category “best foreign language film”, and “L’Événement”, (“Happening », in English) by Audrey Diwan.

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The latter is adapted from the novel by Annie Ernaux (Nobel Prize for Literature 2022). It was very well received in the United States, a few…

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