Robinson rewarded
Selected for official competition at the eleventh hour at the Locarno Film Festival, Vendredi ou un autre jour by Belgian Yvan Le Moine allowed Philippe Nahon to win the Acting award given by The Association of Independent Critics, made up of critics from several Italian publications.
The French actor, whose career started with Jean-Pierre Melville in 1961 in Le Doulos, is better known for his roles as a sinister villain in young French cinema (notably Carne and Seul contre tous by Gaspard Noé and La Haine by Mathieu Kassovitz and more recently Calvaire by Belgian Fabrice du Welz). Here he plays the main part, that of Robinson Crusoe in an adaptation of Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique by French novelist Michel Tournier.
The film should be screened at Montreal, during the first Montreal International Film Festival which runs from the 18th 25th of September 2005, then on to London for the London Film Festival. The film is sold internationally by f for film.
(Translated from French)
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