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Talk: Jacqueline Lentzou & Marine Atlan
Marine Atlan, director of La Gradiva, and Jacqueline Lentzou, director of A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra, come together to discuss their attunement to the frequencies of youth and their idiosyncratic experiments with narrative.
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Marine Atlan’s NYFF64 Main Slate selection La Gradiva and Jacqueline Lentzou’s NYFF64 Currents selection A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra give new and audacious form to the coming-of-age film. La Gradiva, which won the top prize of the Critics’ Week at this year’s Cannes, follows a group of French high-schoolers on a trip to Naples, where the pains and thrills of adolescence play out against a mythic and historic backdrop. In A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra, for which Lentzou won the Best Director prize in the Horizons section of the 2026 Venice Film Festival, what starts as a film about a rebellious teenager navigating friendships and a fraught family turns into something beguilingly strange and mythical. This conversation will bring Atlan and Lentzou together to discuss their exquisite attention to form, their attunement to the frequencies of youth, and their idiosyncratic experiments with narrative.
Marine Atlan’s NYFF64 Main Slate selection La Gradiva and Jacqueline Lentzou’s NYFF64 Currents selection A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra give new and audacious form to the coming-of-age film. La Gradiva, which won the top prize of the Critics’ Week at this year’s Cannes, follows a group of French high-schoolers on a trip to Naples, where the pains and thrills of adolescence play out against a mythic and historic backdrop. In A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra, for which Lentzou won the Best Director prize in the Horizons section of the 2026 Venice Film Festival, what starts as a film about a rebellious teenager navigating friendships and a fraught family turns into something beguilingly strange and mythical. This conversation will bring Atlan and Lentzou together to discuss their exquisite attention to form, their attunement to the frequencies of youth, and their idiosyncratic experiments with narrative.