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Eight candidates for the Louis-Delluc Prize

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- Kechiche, Dumont, Desplechin, Guiraudie, Dupeyron, Dupontel, Farhadi and Bercot competing for the 2013 edition of the prestigious award

Eight candidates for the Louis-Delluc Prize
Blue is the Warmest Colour by Abdellatif Kechiche

The prestigious Louis-Delluc Prize, which will be awarded on December 17 by a jury of film personalities and critics presided by Gilles Jacob, will this year see eight features compete for the Best Film Award. Amongst them, four titles were unveiled at the last Cannes Film Festival: the Palme d’Or Blue is the Warmest Colour [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Abdellatif Kechiche
film profile
]
by Abdellatif Kechiche, competitors The Past [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
by Iranian director Asghar Farhadi (read the review – which gave Bérénice Bejo a Best Actress Award on the Croisette) and Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian) [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Arnaud Desplechin
film profile
]
by Arnaud Desplechin, as well as Stranger by the Lake [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Alain Guiraudie
film profile
]
by Alain Guiraudie (Best Director Award at the Certain Regard).

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Two titles from Berlin are also in the game: Camille Claudel 1915 [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Bruno Dumont
film profile
]
by Bruno Dumont and On My Way [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
by Emmanuelle Bercot (read the review). Finally, the pre-selection is completed by two features discovered in San Sebastian (the first in competition, the second in the Pearls section): My Soul Healed by You [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
by François Dupeyron (read the review) and 9 Month Stretch by Albert Dupontel (read the news) which has had a very promising early career in French theatres (885,000 admissions in 11 days).

It is worth noting that Abdellatif Kechiche already won the Louis-Delluc in 2007 with The Secret of the Grain [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Hafsia Herzi
film profile
]
and so did Arnaud Desplechin in 2004 with Kings and Queen [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
. Finally, the pre-selection for the Louis-Delluc Prize for Best First Film will be announced shortly.

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(Translated from French)

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