Critics’ week has just unveiled the winners of its 60th edition held from July 7 to 15, 2021.
It’s the Egyptian film Feathers (Feathers) which won the Nespresso Grand Prix. A deserved reward for a beautiful, very special and well -mastered film.
Synopsis: a passive mother, devoted body and soul to her husband and children. Locked in a monotonous daily life, punctuated by banal and repetitive tasks, it is as small as possible. A simple magic round runs badly during the birthday of his four -year -old son and it is an avalanche of absurd and improbable disasters that falls on the family. The magician transforms her husband, an authoritarian father, into a hen. The mother has no choice but to get out of her reserve and assume the role of family chief, stirring heaven and earth to find her husband. Fighting for her survival and that of her children, she gradually becomes an independent and strong woman.
The poster for the film feathers (feathers) (/caption)
Prize awarded by the Jury of the Critics Week
The Romanian director, Cristian Mungiu, president of the jury and the members Camelia Jordana, Didar Domehri, Michel Merkt & Karel Och. Grand Prix Nespresso: Feathers (feathers) Omar El Zohairi Price of the rising star of the Louis Roederer Foundation: Sandra Melissa Torres in Amparo from Simón Mesa Soto Leitz Cine Prix Discovery of the short film: Duo li (Lili alone | lili, all alone) of zou jing
Price awarded by partners
GAN Foundation Prize for Distribution Condor, French distributor of Nothing to fuck (Zero Fucks Given) by Julie Lecoustre & Emmanuel Marre Price Sacd Elie Grappe and Raphaëlle Raphaëlle Desplechin, writers ofOlga Elie Grappe Canal+ price of short film Brutalia, Days of Labor (Brutalia, working days) of Manolis Mavris
The Egyptian film “Feathers” won the Nespresso Grand Prix.
Parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival, the criticism has been devoted, since its inception, to discover young talents. From its creation by the French union of film criticism in 1962, it has set itself the mission of honoring the first and second works of filmmakers around the world. Bernardo Bertolucci, Jean Eustache, Otar Iosseliani, Ken Loach, Wong Kar Wai, Jacques Audiard, Arnaud Desplechin, Bertrand Bonello, Rebecca Zlotowski, Quentin Dupieux, Jeff Nichols or Valérie Donzelli, made their criticism.
Each edition gives the Critique Week an opportunity to introduce around twenty directors, through 10 feature films (including 7 presented in competition) and 10 short and medium -sized films in competition.
Neïla Driss
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