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AWARDS France

Seven contenders for Delluc

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A coveted prize and benchmark of high cinematic quality, the Louis Delluc Award will be presented on December 12 by a jury of around 20 film critics and personalities presided by Gilles Jacob. This year, seven features will vie for honours.

Among them is Cannes Palme d’Or-winner The Class [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Carole Scotta
interview: Laurent Cantet
film profile
]
(which has amassed almost 1.5m admissions in France) by Laurent Cantet (who won the Delluc for Best Debut Film in 2000 for Human Resources). Arnaud Desplechin (who won the award in 2004 for Kings and Queen [+see also:
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) has been selected this year with A Christmas Tale [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
, and former winner Jacques Doillon (The Little Gangster in 1990) will compete with Just Anybody [+see also:
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film profile
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The remaining four contenders are Olivier AssayasSummer Hours [+see also:
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; Adhen [+see also:
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film profile
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(unveiled in the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and released October 22) by Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche (Delluc for Best Debut Film in 2002 for Wesh wesh, qu'est-ce qui se passe?); Raymond Depardon’s documentary Country Profiles: Modern Life [+see also:
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trailer
film profile
]
(lauded in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes and released on October 29); and Martin Provost’s Séraphine [+see also:
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film profile
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, which is currently enjoying box office success (322,000 admissions after five weeks on release).

The three contenders for the Louis Delluc Award for Best Debut Film are Pierre Schoeller’s Versailles [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Geraldine Michelot
interview: Pierre Schoeller
film profile
]
(presented in Un Certain Regard at this year’s Cannes); Le tueur (“The Killer”) by Cédric Anger (see interview); and Sandrine Bonnaire’s documentary Her Name Is Sabine [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
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Created in 1937, the Louis Delluc Award has honoured the greatest French directors. Last year, the jury crowned Abdellatif Kechiche’s The Secret of the Grain [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Hafsia Herzi
film profile
]
with the award.

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(Translated from French)

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