Only days after it won the Jean Vigo prize, Dominique Marchais‘ La Rivière will face off against the likes of Justine Triet‘s Anatomie d’une chute, Catherine Breillat‘s L’Été dernier and Mona Achache‘s Little Girl Blue for the annual Louis-Delluc prize. Other contenders include the Quinzaine preemed Cédric Kahn‘s Le Procès Goldman and Pierre Creton‘s Un Prince, Berlinale titles Claire Simon‘s Notre Corps and Patric Chiha‘s La Bête dans la jungle and Un Certain Regard opener Thomas Cailley‘s Le Règne animal. Among the five finalists for Best Debut, we find a trio of Critics’ Week items in Stephan Castang‘s Vincent doit mourir, Iris Kaltenbäck‘s Le ravissementand Simon Rieth‘s Nos cérémonies. Here are the noms in blullet point form. The winners (and it could be a tie like last year) will be unveiled on December 6th. The jury is composed of 20 members, made up of a group of film critics and personalities who are cultural significance. The award was created in 1937.
Prix Louis-Delluc :
Mona Achache pour Little Girl blue
Catherine Breillat pour L’Été dernier
Thomas Cailley pour Le Règne animal
Patric Chiha pour La Bête dans la jungle
Pierre Creton pour Un Prince
Cédric Kahn pour Le Procès Goldman
Dominique Marchais pour La Rivière
Claire Simon pour Notre Corps
Justine Triet pour Anatomie d’une chute
Prix Louis-Delluc – Best First Film:
Fifi de Jeanne Aslan et Paul Saintillan
Vincent doit mourir de Stephan Castang
Chien de la casse de Jean-Baptiste Durand
Le ravissement d’Iris Kaltenbäck
Nos cérémonies de Simon Rieth
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).
