12/12/2006

The true story of J.J. Hollywood, brought to the screen by Nick Cassavetes in Alpha Dog ultimately conquered the jury of the Courmayeur Noir in Festival, which presented the film, starring Emile Hirsch, Bruce Willis, Sharon Stone and Harry Dean Stanton, with the Valle d'Aosta Cinema Award. The film will be distributed in Italy by Moviemax on February 23, 2007 on 250-300 screens.

The Special Jury Prize went to another film on desperate youth, Iceland’s Children [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] by Ragnar Bragason, while Deborah François, the lead in Denis Dercourt’s The Page Turner [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Denis Dercourt
interview: Michel Saint-Jean
film profile] (see Film Focus) won the Napapijri Award for Best Performance.

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Audiences, on the other hand, singled out Kevin Macdonald’s The Last King of Scotland, which offers a look at Idi Amin, the bloody Ugandan dictator who died in 2003. The audiences’ second runner-up, Michel Hazanavicius’s OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies, a sophisticated French parody of James Bond, was instead awarded the Mystery Prize.