Champagne.
The 2020 European Cinema of the Year Awards ceremony honored
Drunk.
Created by the European Cinema Academy, this event rewards and promotes each year the best films and actors of European cinema.
For this thirty-third edition, Thomas Vinterberg's film won the day.
The Swedish film won four major awards including Best Picture, Best Actor for its lead performer Mads Mikkelsen, Best Director and Best Screenwriter for Thomas Vinterberg and Tobias Lind-Holm.
A half-surprise for
Drunk
who was named as one of the big favorites.
The feature film explores the experience of a 50-year-old history teacher, worn out, who decides to live daily with 0.5 grams of alcohol in his blood.
But after drunkenness comes a hangover ...
To read also: Mads Mikkelsen: with
Drunk
, "Thomas Vinterberg wanted to provoke an electroshock"
In the category of best actress, Paula Beer wins once again.
After receiving a Silver Bear in the same category, the 25-year-old German actress made an impression in the film
Ondine
.
Two French films were also honored during the ceremony.
A triumph
by Emmanuel Courcol, at the cinema on January 20, 2021 with Kad Merad as the headliner, won the prize for best comedy.
She is interested in the fate of prisoners who will find meaning in their existence thanks to the theater.
And finally
Josep
by designer Aurel, a French, Belgian and Spanish co-production, won the prize for best animated film.
Read also: Paula Beer, elusive siren of German cinema
The European Cinema Awards are also an opportunity to highlight new talents, such as Carlo Sironi.
The 37-year-old Italian director wins the Discovery Prize with his film
Sole
, featuring a drama that has already won many festival awards.
The opportunity also to explore the cinema of Eastern Europe, rarer in our theaters.
With
L'Affaire Collective
, Romanian director Alexander Nanau opens a window on the massive corruption of the Romanian public health system after a tragic fire at the Colectiv Club in Bucharest.
The documentary, due on February 24, 2021, wins the first prize in its category.
