Valeria Golino’s Un Certain Regard selected Miele, Felix Van Groeningen’s Berlin Film Fest entry The Broken Circle Breakdown and Clio Barnard’s Directors’ Fortnight selected The Selfish Giant are the remaining three selections for the 2013 edition of the Lux Prize (the top ten was once again announced at Karlovy Vary this year). Promoting break-thru Euro cinema with film narratives that “illustrate the diversity of European traditions, shed light on the process of European integration and provide insights into the building of Europe“, the annual Lux Prize Official Selection which nominates ten films (the 17 member selection panel which includes Karlovy Vary’s Karel Och and former Directors’ Fortnight head-honcho Olivier Père) and then dwindles down the process to a vulnerable three, before crowning one winner in the final month of the calender year, has been awarding the prize since 2007 with winners that include the originally titled: Io sono Li...
- 7/24/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
One of the rare truly committed left-wing film-makers around (his few peers include Ken Loach and John Sayles), Guédiguian laid into Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris when it was shown out of competition at Cannes last year where his own Les neiges du Kilimandjaro was in the Un Certain Regard section. He accused it of ignoring "poor Parisians earning below the minimum wage". Well, he's earned the right to say that after years spent making movies dealing sympathetically with the poor, the insulted and the injured of the working class, mainly in and around Marseille, and his new film is characteristically honest and affecting. The central character is the middle-aged factory worker and socialist shop steward, Michel, a man so honest that he puts his own name in a ballot over enforced redundancy he organises and finds himself taking early retirement. Then one night, while he's playing cards with...
- 9/15/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
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