| César
winners star in French Film Festival UK
Several of the winning
films in this year's César awards (France's
answer to the Oscars) will feature in the upcoming French
Film
Festival UK (7 to 20 March) while Olivier Dahan, the director
of Ma
Vie en Rose, the Piaf biopic and the big winner with no less
than five
prizes including best actress for Marion Cottillard, has been
a
frequent visitor to the festival in the past.
The famous Depardieu name was given a new face as the ubiquitous
Julie
Depardieu (Gerard's daughter) took home the best supporting
actress
award for her performance in Claude Miller's A Secret / Un
Secret
(15), based on Philippe Grimbert's fact-inspired novel. This
fine
drama by Claude Miller (subject of an FFF UK retro in 1998)
deals with
a Jewish family torn asunder during the Second World War.
The cast
also features Mathieu Amalric who won best actor Cesar for
his
performance for his role as paralysed Elle editor Dominique
Bauby in
Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. The absent
Amalric, off shooting the next Bond film, sent a speech for
master of
ceremonies Antoine de Caunes (FFF UK guest in 1998) to read
aloud.
The Academy of Film, Arts and Sciences on Saturday gave its
top prize
for best French film of the year to Abdellatif Kechiche's
The Secret
of the Grain, which continued its romp through the Gallic
awards
season starting with the Louis Delluc Prize in December and
followed
by statues at the Lumiere Awards, the Globes du Cristal, the
Jacques
Prevert awards, the Daniel Toscan du Plantier producer's prize
and the
Golden Star Awards. Kechiche travelled to the FFF UK in 2005
for his
previous film L'Esquive which also won four Cesars that year.
Laurent Stocker was named Best Male Newcomer for his role
in Claude
Berri's Hunting and Gathering which will be shown in the French
Film
Festival's Panorama selection.
The academy also paid homage to Jeanne Moreau with a special
tribute
spanning the French actress' 60-year movie career, a prelude
to
Moreau's already announced focus during this year's Edinburgh
International Film Festival in June. Actor Melvil Poupaud,
who shared
screen time with Moreau in Francois Ozon's Time to Leave,
and is among
this year's festival guests for two films A Lost Man and Towards
Zero,
paid her tribute.
The full list of winners:
FILM
Abdellatif Kechiche, The Secret of the Grain
ACTRESS
Marion Cotillard, La Vie en rose
ACTOR
Mathieu Amalric, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
DIRECTOR
Abdellatif Kechiche, The Secret of the Grain
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Abdellatif Kechiche, The Secret of the Grain
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, "Persepolis"
FIRST FILM
Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, Persepolis
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Julie Depardieu, A Secret
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Sami Bouajila, The Witnesses
BEST FEMALE NEWCOMER
Hafsia Herzi, The Secret of the Grain
BEST MALE NEWCOMER
Laurent Stocker, Hunting and Gathering
SOUND
Laurent Zellig, Pascal Villard and Jean-Paul Hurier, La Vie
en rose
MUSICAL SCORE
Alex Beaupain, Les chansons d'amour
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Tetsuo Nagata, La Vie en rose
ART DIRECTION
Olivier Raoux, La Vie en rose
COSTUME DESIGN
Marit Allen, La Vie en rose
EDITING
Juliette Welfing, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
SHORT
Le Mozart des pickpockets, Philippe Pollet-Villard
FOREIGN FILM
The Lives of Others, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (Germany)
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Terror's Advocate, Barbet Schroeder
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