02/04/2007

Norwegian film Reprise [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Joachim Trier
interview: Karin Julsrud
film profile] by Joachim Trier snapped up further awards this weekend with a double win at the 20th Nordic Film Festival held in Rouen (see news).

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award in the Norman city, the debut feature from the slate of 4 1⁄2 Production started off with a double win last summer at Karlovy Vary (Best Director and the Don Quixote Award) before going on to win the Discovery Award at Toronto and the recent Norwegian Film Critics Prize (see news).

However, the title is still without a French distributor despite excellent international sales (see news).

The festival jury also voted Denmark’s Sidse Babett Knudsen Best Actress (After the Wedding [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Sisse Graum Jørgensen
interview: Susanne Bier
film profile], see Focus) and the Netherlands’ Raymond Thiry Best Actor (Northern Light [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: David Lammers
interview: Jeroen Beker
film profile], see Focus).

The Youth European Jury Award went to Jens Lien’s Norwegian feature The Bothersome Man [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Jens Lien
interview: Jørgen Storm Rosenberg
film profile] (Focus), which opened last Wednesday in French cinemas.

(Translated from French)