Les Damnés by Roberto Minervini, in the Un Certain Regard selection at the Cannes Festival 2024

The Cannes Film Festival highlights singular works in its Un Certain Regard selection. Roberto Minervini's Les Damnés (The Damned), a historical film about the American Civil War, offers a fresh look at this period.

The Damned is set in thewinter of 1862, during the American Civil War. The U.S. Army sends a company of volunteers west to patrol unexplored regions. As their mission changes course, they question the meaning of their commitment.

Roberto Minervini, a director renowned for his documentaries previously presented at the Cannes Film Festival, notably Le Cœur battant, signs with Les Damnés a historical film. The cast, including Jeremiah Knupp, René W. Solomon and Cuyler Ballenger, portrays these young soldiers confronted with the realities of war.

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Thierry Frémaux declared: "Roberto Minervini is also a documentary filmmaker, whom we've already welcomed to the Cannes Festival. An American-Italian filmmaker, his film is called The Damned and it's a war film, or rather a Civil War film, about young soldiers on a mission with an invisible enemy. Obviously, one of the film's great interests is its form, the way Roberto Minervini renews the way we look at the daily life of war and the feelings of young soldiers".

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