Six French movies that every one premiered at this 12 months’s Cannes Movie Pageant are within the operating for France’s prestigious Louis Delluc prize for greatest movie of the 12 months.
They’re: Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Obscure, Hafsia Herzi’s The Little Sister and Dominik Moll’s Case 137, which all premiered in Cannes Competitors; Anna Cazenave Cambet’s Un Sure Regard choice Love Me Tender, Laurent Cantet’s Administrators’ Fortnight opener Enzo directed by Robin Campillo, and ACID premiere Drifting Laurent from directing trio Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture and Mattéo Eustachon.
The nominations for a second Louis Delluc prize to greatest first characteristic are: Ugo Bienveu’s Arco, a robust contender for greatest animated characteristic on the Oscars this 12 months; Pauline Loques’ Nino, which earned this 12 months’s Prix d’Ornano-Valenti for greatest French characteristic on the Deauville American Movie Pageant after premiering at Cannes’ Critics’ Week; Alexe Poukine’s Cannes’ Critics’ Week comedy drama Kika, Valentine Cadic’s Berlin premiere That Summer season In Paris and Aurelien Peyre’s L’Epreuve Du Feu.
The Louis Delluc prize was based in 1936 and is awarded by a jury of movie critics and professionals and presided over by former Cannes Movie Pageant director Gilles Jacob. It historically kicks off awards season in France, setting the stage for contenders prone to determine in ceremonies together with the César awards and the Lumières. A number of of this 12 months’s movies additionally characteristic within the shortlist for the upcoming European Movie Awards together with Case 137, The Little Sister, Love Me Tender and Arco.
Final 12 months’s Louis Delluc prizes went to Alain Guiraudie’s Misericordia for greatest movie and Jonathan Millet’s Ghost Path for greatest debut characteristic.
The profitable 2025 Prix Louis Delluc movies shall be introduced on December 10 and offered at a ceremony on January 26 on the French Cinematheque.
