In the absence of Lukas Dhont,
"already campaigning"
for the Oscars in Los Angeles according to the film team,
Close
won seven awards, out of ten nominations, including those for best screenplay, best Flemish film, and best hope. masculine for Eden Dabrine, who embodies Leo.
In this feature film shot at the height of children, two boys, Léo and Rémi, live a close friendship that will be upset by entering college and the looks of their classmates.
Close
won two technical awards (best image and scenery), and those for best actor and actress in a supporting role, respectively for Igor Van Dessel and Emilie Dequenne, the Rosetta
revealed
25 years ago by the Dardenne brothers - the last of which Nine-time nominated
Tori and Lokita
film
walked away with no awards on Saturday.
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In the film by Lukas Dhont, himself Dutch-speaking but who has filmed in French with a good number of French-speaking actors, Emilie Dequenne plays Rémi's mother, whom Léo will approach to appease his torments.
Featured Bouli Lanners
A week after his remarkable performance at the Césars (best actor in a supporting role) Bouli Lanners was the other star of the evening.
But in Brussels his role in
La nuit du 12
by Dominik Moll won him the Magritte for best actor.
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Those for best film and best director went to his feature film
Nobody has to know
, shot in English on a Scottish island, and which tells the gradual return to life and love of a man victim of a memory loss after a stroke.
The 57-year-old from Liège is a familiar figure to the Magrittes.
As a director, he had already received the prize for best film for
Les Géants
(2011).
And his performance as a father hen raising two teenage girls alone (
C'est ça l'amour
) has already won him the Magritte for best actor three years ago.
The big annual celebration of French-speaking Belgian cinema welcomed the public for the first time since 2020. The 2021 ceremony had been canceled in the midst of a pandemic, and that of last year restricted to the nominees only.
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This edition chaired by the Belgian actress Lubna Azabal (who toured with André Téchiné, Tony Gatlif, Denis Villeneuve) made it possible to award an honorary Magritte to the French actress and director Agnès Jaoui, very moved by a long standing ovation.
As at the Césars last week, the Franco-Belgian Virginie Efira was crowned best actress for her role in
Revoir Paris
.