Off Screen and Jan Decleir, crowned in Montréal
Off Screen from Dutchman Pieter Kuijpers received on Monday the "Grand Prix of the Americas", the most prestigious award given by the World Film Festival of Montreal, at the closing ceremony of the 29th edition.
The jury presided over by Théo Angélopoulos and some notable European film personalities such as the Godardian muse Anna Karina, Spanish author and scriptwriter Vicente Molina Foix, actress Amira Casar and Swedish DoP Jörgen Persson, doubly rewarded this second cinematic feature since Jan Decleir, Flemish actor, who plays the principal role, received Best Male Actor.
Born in 1946, Jan Decleir has recently becoming an unassailable actor in Belgian and Dutch cinema. This Flemish actor, from the theatre, who has walked the boards in many guises and has made more than a hundred TV and cinema appearances among them two Oscar films (Antonia, Marleen Gorris, 1995; Karakter, Mike van Diem, 1997) has turned over with luminary directors such as Stijn Coninx, Hugo Claus and Robbe de Hert and has discovered new leading roles with a generation of young filmmakers such as Pieter Kuijpers and Erick Van Looy (The Alzheimer Case [+see also:
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(Translated from French)
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