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‘The Sisters Brothers’ Western wins big at Paris film awards
PARIS, Feb 5, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – “The Sisters Brothers” was the big winner
at the Paris foreign press film awards late Monday, taking best film, best
director, and best cinematography.
The Western starring Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly had already pipped
Alfonso Cuaron and “Roma” to best director at the Venice film festival last
year.
It is the first film French director Jacques Audiard, best known for the
Oscar-nominated “A Prophet”, has made in the US.
The other big winner was comedian Alex Lutz who won best actor and best
music for “Guy”, his homage to the glories of French 1970s pop music in which
he also stars.
Elodie Bouchez won best actress for “Pupille” (“In Safe Hands”), an
adoption drama which has been one of the big French critical hits of the
year, with Ophelie Bau winning best female newcomer for her performance in
“Mektoub My Love” by Abdellatif Kechiche of “Blue Is the Warmest Colour”
fame.
Best male newcomer was won by Felix Maritaud for his remarkable turn as a
male prostitute in “Sauvage”. He had earlier won the rising star award at the
Cannes film festival.
“Samouni Road”, a partly animated film about an Israeli atrocity in the
Gaza Strip by Italian Stefano Savona, won best documentary.
BSS/AFP/FI/ 1545 hrs