{
  "id": 3529680,
  "title": "France Faces Thorny Oscar Submission Choice With Andrey Zvyagintsev’s ‘Minotaur’ and Homegrown Contenders",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/france-faces-thorny-oscar-submission-choice-with-andrey-zvyagintsevs",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-26T14:34:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/film/global/france-oscar-submission-choices-andrey-zvyagintsev-minotaur-1236842911/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "France’s Oscar submission race for 2027 is shaping up around one particularly thorny question: What happens to a major film by an exiled filmmaker when no other country is realistically positioned to claim it? That is the dilemma surrounding Andrey Zvyagintsev’s “Minotaur,” a scathing portrait of corruption in Putin’s Russia that won the Grand Prize […]",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}