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AWARDS France

Eight films nominated for the Delluc

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Eight features will battle it out for the prestigious Louis-Delluc Award, to be announced on December 12 by a jury of critics presided by Gilles Jacob, presenting the Best French Film of the Year 2007.

The nominated films include three titles lauded at the most recent Cannes Film Festival – in official competition (Christophe Honoré’s Love Songs [+see also:
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), Un Certain Regard (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi’s Actresses [+see also:
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) and in the Directors’ Fortnight (Jacques Nolot’s Before I Forget [+see also:
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).

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Other hopefuls include Berlinale film The Witnesses [+see also:
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by André Téchiné and four titles at Venice this year: Abdellatif Kechiche’s prize-winning The Secret of the Grain [+see also:
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interview: Hafsia Herzi
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, The Romance of Astree and Celadon [+see also:
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by Eric Rohmer, Belle toujours [+see also:
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by Manoel de Oliveira and Claude Chabrol’s A Girl Cut In Two [+see also:
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Five nominees will vie for the Louis-Delluc Award for Best First Film, including favourite Persepolis [+see also:
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interview: Marc-Antoine Robert
interview: Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Pa…
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by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud (see Focus), which won acclaim at Cannes and is the French nominee for the 2008 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar shortlist, as well as a hopeful for the 2008 Best Animated Film Oscar nomination.

Also in the running are three features by young female directors who attracted attention at Cannes – All Is Forgiven [+see also:
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interview: David Thion
interview: Mia Hansen-Löve
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]
by Mia Hansen-Love (see Focus), Just About Love? [+see also:
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by Lou Doillon and Water Lilies [+see also:
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by Céline Sciamma (see interview) – as well as Olivier Meyrou’s documentary Beyond Hatred [+see also:
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, screened at the latest Berlinale.

Created in 1937 in memory of the director-critic-writer Louis Delluc, the award has honoured the greatest French directors, from Jean Renoir to Claude Sautet, not to mention Henri-Georges Clouzot, Robert Bresson, Francois Truffaut, Maurice Pialat and in recent years Patrice Chéreau, Nicolas Philibert, Noémie Lvovsky, Lucas Belvaux, Arnaud Desplechin and Philippe Garrel.

Last year, the award went to Pascale Ferran’s Lady Chatterley [+see also:
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while Jean-Pierre Darroussin received the Louis Delluc Award for Best First Film for Premonition [+see also:
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.

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(Translated from French)

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