Wild Diamond

Fresh from the Cannes Film Festival,  Wild Diamond is a reflection on the need to be seen in a world of appearances. Liane, 19, lives with her mother and little sister in a suburban village in the south of France, a reality she hides from her tens of thousands of followers on social media. Agathe Riedinger sets out to show the person behind her online image: a girl full of ferocity who seeks to escape her own life and become ‘somebody’ by competing in a reality show. With a realistic approach and full of humanism, Wild Diamond shows the fragility of the masks we build for ourselves and sheds light on a youth traversed by the anxiety of the ego culture. A powerful debut that, not surprisingly, was the only debut film competing this year for the Palme d'Or.