Interview: Marine Atlan – La Gravida | 2026 Cannes Film Festival (opens in new tab)

This year, the Critics’ Week gifted us a feature debut that layers a visual sensibility to a coming-of-age film that captures the fragile moment when adolescence fractures into adulthood. Most recently praised for other Cannes showcases in The Girl in the Snow and The Rapture, cinematographer Marine Atlan gives us La Gradiva, which is set against the volcanic landscapes of Naples and Pompeii, and follows a group of teenagers navigating friendship, desire, belonging, and self-invention, observ...