As every year and just before the awards César ceremony (next Friday) the more than 400 specialized press journalists that belong to l’Académie des Étoiles d’Or du Cinéma Français announced their award winners and as everyone has been expecting Kechiche's master opus won the top awards.Perhaps what is more interesting is that last year top award was given to Audiard's film instead of Haneke's which did not happen at the César, so does this means that Kechiche will not win next Friday? Well, I do not think so as his movie, La Vie d' Adèle, will surely collect honors at the upcoming César awards.
These are the winners that you can also check at the official site.
Best Film: La vie d’Adèle chapitres 1 & 2
Best Director: Abdellatif Kechiche for La vie d’Adèle chapitres 1 & 2
Best Debut Film: Les garçons et Guillaume, à table !, Guillaume Gallienne
Best Actress: Adèle Exarchopoulos in La vie d’Adèle chapitres 1 & 2
Best Actor: Guillaume Gallienne in Les garçons et Guillaume, à table !
Best Female Newcomer: Adèle Exarchopoulos in La vie d’Adèle chapitres 1 & 2
Best Male Newcomer: Vincent Macaigne in La Bataille de Solférino
Best Screenplay: Albert Dupontel and Laurent Turner for 9 mois ferme
Original Score Compositor: Alexandre Desplat
Best Documentary: La Maison de la Radio, Nicolas Philibert
Industry Awards
Production: Wild Bunch
Distributor: Wild Bunch Distribution
Indeed last year Audiard's film won top award and Michael Haneke won best director, but this year we can clearly see that Kechiche master opus won four awards which undoubtedly suggests that the Cannes Palm d'Or winner has really good chances to be highly honored next Friday. Let's hope so and also let's hope that we can see the live streaming, sigh.
I must confess that I wasn't all that crazy about Kechiche's The Life Of Adele/Blue Is The Warmest Color, and think it is over-rated. I felt similarly about Games Of Love & Chance and The Secret Of The Grain. I think Kechiche is an average filmmaker, with modest skills. Adele was very repetitious, over-long, and only came alive sporadically. I'm hoping it loses on Friday; haven't seen enough of the films to know what deserves to win, but of the films I have seen I loved L'inconnu du lac (Stranger By The Lake) the most (hypnotic, haunting, fascinating, intense, beautiful, suspenseful, and esp. PIERRE DELADONCHAMPS!!! (:
ReplyDeleteLa vie d'Adele HAS to WIN tomorrow and will win. Definitively do not agree as I find Kechiche very daring with all the themes he has done in his movies, daring as a filmmaker and a storyteller; his latest is just the best he has done up to now, but I'm looking forward to his next. I hated L'innconu du Lac, one the most repulsive movies I have seen lately, almost got sick with film. Sigh. The other movie that will do good tomorrow is a comedy and ALSO has a homosexual theme, Les garçons et Guillaume, à table ! It is funny.
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