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The Cabourg festival closes its doors today after 5 days of crowded rooms at all sessions and a game of cat and mouse from its organizing team with more than capricious weather. And last night, the awards ceremony took place, divided as usual into two parts. On the one hand, Les Swann d'Or, the prizes rewarding the best romantic films released in theaters between June 2023 and June 2024, awarded by a jury of professionals. On the other, the trophies rewarding the feature films presented in competition since the middle of the week
The Swann d’Or 2024 had a big winner: Out of season, the great and beautiful love film by Stéphane Brizé featuring two ex-lovers who happen to cross paths again in a seaside resort in the Atlantic Ocean. He actually left with no less than three trophies: best director, best actor (Guillaume Canet for his second victory in this category… 20 years after that for Child games !) and best actress (Alba Rohrwacher who has just finished filming the new Noah Baumbach, still untitled, in New York, alongside Greta Gerwig, George Clooney and Adam Sandler)
For the rest of the list, it's The count of Monte Cristo, the romantic epic by the Alexandre De La Patellière-Matthieu Delaporte duo, adapted from Alexandre Dumas which was named romantic film of the year. Céleste Brunnquell (for the very beautiful and too unnoticed Fifi by Jeanne Aslan and Paul Saintillan) and Xavier Lacaille (for his irresistible composition as a doctoral student in classics, keen on Latin, in another film which would have deserved more success: Again by Emilie Noblet) have taken him away with revelations. The Premier Rendez-vous category, celebrating a first major role on the big screen, dedicated Stéphane Caillard, the interpreter of Florence Arthaud in Flo by Géraldine Danon and Michael Zindel, the hero of Last of the Jews by Noé Debré, alongside Agnès Jaoui. Raphaël Thiéry (The Man of Clay by Anaïs Tellenne) received a Favorite Prize. A few days no more by Julie Navarro, a love story set against the backdrop of welcoming and defending undocumented exiles, won in the first film category, Jessica Palud and her co-screenwriter Laurette Polmanss in the Gonzague Saint-Bris Prize for best adaptation For Maria where the love story between the actress Maria Schneider (played by an exceptional Anamaria Vartolomei) and the one (played by the always perfect Céleste Brunnquell) who shared part of her life is developed.
As for the films presented in competition, the jury chaired by Virginie Efira awarded a special prize to Eat the night by Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel (in theaters July 17) with a video game backdrop. And awarded his Grand Prize to My favorite cake signed by two Iranian directors, Maryam Moghadam and Behtash Sanaeeha, under house arrest following the confiscation of their passports and under the threat of a prison sentence who sent a moving message of hope in gratitude for this prize. This film featuring a septuagenarian who, tired of living alone, decides to rekindle her love life does not yet have a release date but will be distributed in France by Arizona Distribution.
The Youth Jury chose to celebrate When the light breaks by Runar Runarsson, who opened the Un Certain Regard section in Cannes. And the public prize rewarded The Panache by Jennifer Devoldère (Wise man), endearing story way Circle of Dead Poets, featuring a young stutterer who will free himself from his complexes thanks to a charismatic and rebellious teacher who ignores the rules (José Garcia, perfect in this role) who offers him the role of Cyrano de Bergerac. We discover an astonishing young actor, Joachim Arseguel. The film will be in theaters on November 20.