May 27, 2006

Cannes. Awards. Critics' Week.

"Europe made a clean sweep at this year's 45th International Critics' Week awards ceremony yesterday evening," Fabien Lemercier happily announces at Cineuropa.

Poison Friends

Emmanuel Bourdieu's Les amitiés maléfiques (Poison Friends) won the Grand Prix, the Grand Rail d'Or and shared the SACD Award with Matthias Luthardt's Pingpong, which also won the OFAJ (Very) Young Critic Award.

The Bothersome Man

Jens Lien's Den Brysomme mannen (The Bothersome Man) won the ACID Award, of which Salon's Andrew O'Hehir writes, "on first viewing I thought it was great, or at least highly original, or at least funny and creepy and highly worth seeing." Or something.

Lemercier's got the list of winning shorts as well.



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Posted by dwhudson at May 27, 2006 12:11 PM

Comments

I'm really relieved that Fipresci, a federation with which I have some connection, gave the International critics Prize to Climates and not to one of the more hyped films. I hear from a reliable source i.e. someone whose opinions I respect, that it is as good as Uzak. It seems the sort of film that should be getting prizes at festivals. I will supress my scorn if Volver wins the Palme d'Or. I wandered lonely as a cloud through the critics raining praise on it. If Marie Antoinette wins anything, I'll just laugh ironically.

Posted by: Ronald Bergan at May 28, 2006 5:52 AM

Marie Antoinette has won an award at Cannes. Every year an award, the Palme Dog, an inscribed dog collar, is given to the best dog in a film. No, not Kirsten thingy but Mops, the dog that is rudely taken away from M.A. when she arrives in France.

Posted by: Ronald Bergan at May 28, 2006 8:45 AM

That's... sweet?

Posted by: David Hudson at May 28, 2006 9:27 AM