09/02/2011

Four features unveiled at last May’s Cannes Film Festival are among the winners of the 2010 French Union of Film Critics Awards. Best French Film of the Year went to Xavier Beauvois’s Of Gods and Men [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Xavier Beauvois
film profile], while UK director Mike Leigh’s Another Year [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Mike Leigh
film profile] picked up Best Foreign Film.

Created in 2008 to honour a French-language co-production, the Unusual Francophone Film Award went to Mathieu Amalric’s On Tour [+see also:
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interview: Mathieu Amalric
interview: Mathieu Amalric
film profile]. Meanwhile, Rebecca Zlotowski’s Dear Prudence [+see also:
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trailer
film profile] was crowned Best Debut Feature.

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Finally, the Best Short Film Award was presented to Julien Hallard’s Hair. In the TV category, there was triumph for Hervé Hadmar’s drama Pigalle, La Nuit (“Pigalle By Night”) and Jean-Robert Viallet’s documentary La Mise à Mort du Travail (“The Death of Work”).

(Translated from French)