Usually organized in June, the Jean Vigo Prize, postponed to October due to the pandemic, this year greeted the audacious comedy
Énorme
.
Signed Sophie Letourneur, it features the duo Jonathan Cohen and Marina Foïs, in an improbable farce.
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Marina Foïs plays Claire, an internationally renowned pianist whose agent is her own husband, Frédéric, a handyman, funny and caring.
But Frédéric suffers from not having children.
By dint of replacing his pill with a sweetener, Frédéric manages to have a child behind Claire's back.
Nine difficult months follow for the mother-to-be.
The forty-year-old director was distinguished
"for her insolent way of turning over clichés and inverting genres, rubbing burlesque with documentary, for its trivial tenderness and invigorating rawness
", underlined in a press release, the jury of the Prize which since 1951 has established independence of mind, quality and originality.
The award was presented to him by Denis Lavant, at the Center Pompidou, Friday, October 9.
Sophie Letourneur succeeds Stéphane Batut, consecrated last year for
Quicksilver.
The director joins the prestigious line of winners crowned by the Jean Vigo Prize, from the legendary Alain Resnais for
Nuit et Brouillard
in 1956 to Jean-Luc Godard for
Breathless
in 1960, passing by Yves Robert for
The War of the Buttons
in 1962.
As for the Short Film Prize, it was awarded to Mathilde Profit, for her first production,
Un Adieu,
the story of a father who takes his daughter to study in Paris.
A first one-on-one trip which will perhaps be the last.
The jury's decision was motivated by
"sensitivity, tact, but also a keen sense of space and time, with which the director deploys a universal equation,
this rite of passage which sees a young girl emancipating herself from family cocoon. "
In
A Farewell
, the young Luna Carpiaux is about to stand on her own feet.
Copyright Mathilde Profit
Finally, the Honorary Vigo was awarded to the Larrieu brothers.
Between short, medium and feature films, the filmmaker brothers can be proud of a filmography comprising around fifteen films.
In 2000, they directed Mathieu Amalric in
La Brèche de Roland
, the story of a family hike that turns into settling scores.
This quirky charming medium-length film is very noticed at the Directors' Fortnight during the Cannes Film Festival.
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“
Although sensitive to spaces, to nature, to the material of the world as much as to the disturbance of feelings, the cinema of the Larrieu brothers escapes naturalism.
On the outskirts of the strange, sometimes dreamlike, their staging, all in a clear line, appears above all anxious to preserve the sensitive vibration that the camera can record and the veil of mystery that they have arranged ”,
emphasized the jurors.