Nine contenders for the Delluc

22/11/2011

The prestigious Louis Delluc Prize will be awarded on December 16 by a jury of film critics and personalities presided over by Gilles Jacob (pictured). This year, nine features will vie for the title of Best Film.

Among them are eight films unveiled at the latest Cannes Film Festival: four in competition (Bertrand Bonello’s House of Tolerance [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Adèle Haenel
film profile] - see review, Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Michel Hazanavicius
film profile], Alain Cavalier’s Pater [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Alain Cavalier
film profile] and Finnish helmer Aki Kaurismäki’s French co-production Le Havre [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Aki Kaurismäki
film profile] - see review); three in the Un Certain Regard section (Pierre Schoeller’s The Minister [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Pierre Schoeller
film profile], Bruno Dumont’s Outside Satan [+see also:
trailer
film profile] - see review, and Robert Guédiguian’s The Snows of Kilimanjaro [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Robert Guédiguian
interview: Robert Guédiguian
film profile]); and one in Critics’ Week (Valérie Donzelli’s Declaration of War [+see also:
trailer
film profile] - see review - which is also France’s entry in the race for the 2012 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar). Alongside this Cannes crop is a title presented in the Berlinale Panorama: Céline Sciamma’s Tomboy [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Céline Sciamma
film profile].

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Five titles have been selected to compete for the Louis Delluc Prize for Best Debut Film: Djinn Carrenard’s Donoma [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] (see news); 17 Girls [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by sisters Muriel and Delphine Coulin (see review); Teddy Lussi-Modeste’s Jimmy Rivière [+see also:
trailer
interview: Teddy Lussi-Modeste
film profile] (see video interview); and the documentaries Mafrouza (5 films) by Emmanuelle Demoris and We, Princesses of Cleves by Régis Sauder.