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Cannes 2009: Spring Fever defies odds to Grab Best Screenplay

I can assure you that Lou Ye’s seriously problematic screenplay was far from everyone’s minds for this category.

Published on May 24, 2009

I can assure you that Lou Ye’s latest offering was not the odds on favorite for best screenplay. In fact, the film has a couple of loose ends, enough for it to have been one of the least favorite films from the Main Comp category. Spring Fever is a tale about a young threesome overcome with erotic longings, and with this award the jury of nine officially confirm that this is not a popularity contest decision.

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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).