May 27, 2006

Cannes. Awards. Directors' Fortnight.

The Directors' Fortnight has announced its awards:

Day Night Day Night

  • Prix "Regard Jeune": Julia Loktev's Day Night Day Night. Related: An "extraordinary low-budget accomplishment," writes Salon's Andrew O'Hehir. "Loktev tells the hair-raising story of a would-be suicide bomber in New York's Times Square, but this isn't 'Paradise Now, American Style.' ... A challenging, intelligent film, it got an explosive ovation at its Directors' Fortnight premiere."

Along the Ridge

Fabien Lemercier at Cineuropa: "Lastly, prize-winning shorts included Dans le rang by Cyprien Vial, which won the SACD Award for Best French-speaking short, and Bosilka Simonovitch, voted Best Young Director of French Shorts for Un rat."



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Posted by dwhudson at May 27, 2006 11:41 AM

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I am looking for the title of a French movie, whih I believe won a Cannes Festival Award sometime between 1959-1963.
It is about a clochard clochard (homeless)who right after WW II comes back to his town in France even though he suffers from [war produced] amnesia. At the end of the movie he is about to be run over by a truck, and the town people shout his name as a warning, but all he gets is a flashback to the war, he sees himself surrounded by tanks, stop dead in his tracks with his arms raised, and ... gets killed [run over] by the truck [in peacetime].

Posted by: Freire at June 2, 2006 10:22 AM