25/11/2010

A coveted prize and benchmark of high cinematic quality, the Louis-Delluc Award will be presented on December 17 by a jury of film critics and personalities presided by Gilles Jacob. This year, eight features will vie for Best Film of the Year.

These include three titles shown in competition at the latest Cannes Film Festival: Xavier Beauvois’s Of Gods and Men [+see also:
film review
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interview: Xavier Beauvois
film profile], Mathieu Amalric’s On Tour [+see also:
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interview: Mathieu Amalric
interview: Mathieu Amalric
film profile] and Bertrand Tavernier’s The Princess of Montpensier [+see also:
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film profile] (see review and interview). Two other titles unveiled on the Croisette in May will vie for honours: the long version of Olivier Assayas’s Carlos [+see also:
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film profile] (see review); and Jean-Paul Civeyrac’s Young Girls in Black [+see also:
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film profile] (see review).

The list of contenders is completed by Claire Denis’s White Material [+see also:
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film profile] (prize-winner at San Sebastian – see news); and Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer [+see also:
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film profile] (Berlinale 2010 award-winner – see review).

As a reminder, the 2009 Louis-Delluc Award went to Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet [+see also:
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interview: Jacques Audiard
interview: Jacques Audiard and Tahar R…
film profile]. Among this year’s nominees, only Tavernier has previously won the award (in 1973 for The Clockmaker of Saint-Paul).

Six features have been selected to vie for the Louis Delluc Award for Best Debut Film, including three helmed by young women directors: Dear Prudence [+see also:
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film profile] by Rebecca Zlotowski (see video interview and review); Love Like Poison [+see also:
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film profile] by Katell Quillévéré (see review); and Chicks [+see also:
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film profile] by Sophie Letourneur (see news and review). Also competing are Patric Chiha’s Domain [+see also:
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film profile] (see review); Marc Dugain’s An Ordinary Execution (see news); and Joann Sfar’s Je T’Aime, Moi Non Plus [+see also:
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Interview with Joann Sfar, director of…
interview: Kacey Mottet Klein
film profile] (see news and video interview).

(Translated from French)