Paris – Honing its Academy Award and Cesar credentials, France’s Oscar short-listed “Mustang” topped the 21st Lumiere Awards, whose biggest highlight was a tribute to Isabelle Huppert.
Unspooling at a gala ceremony Monday night in Paris, and France’s equivalent of the Golden Globes and often a bellwether of sorts for France’s Cesar awards, which take place Feb. 26, the Lumiere Awards crowned “Mustang,” from Turkish-born but Paris-based Deniz Gamze Erguven, with the best picture plaudit.
“Mustang” beat out three other best picture nominees for the French Academy Cesars that take place Feb. 27: Cannes Palme d’Or winner “Dheepan,” from Jacques Audiard; Olivier Delbosc’s “Marguerite”; and Arnaud Desplechin’s “My Golden Years,” a Directors’ Fortnight standout.
The tale of five Turkish sisters battling to not be married off by their traditionalist father, “Mustang” also scored the Lumieres’ Heike Hurst award for best first film and cinematography, for David Chizallet,...
Unspooling at a gala ceremony Monday night in Paris, and France’s equivalent of the Golden Globes and often a bellwether of sorts for France’s Cesar awards, which take place Feb. 26, the Lumiere Awards crowned “Mustang,” from Turkish-born but Paris-based Deniz Gamze Erguven, with the best picture plaudit.
“Mustang” beat out three other best picture nominees for the French Academy Cesars that take place Feb. 27: Cannes Palme d’Or winner “Dheepan,” from Jacques Audiard; Olivier Delbosc’s “Marguerite”; and Arnaud Desplechin’s “My Golden Years,” a Directors’ Fortnight standout.
The tale of five Turkish sisters battling to not be married off by their traditionalist father, “Mustang” also scored the Lumieres’ Heike Hurst award for best first film and cinematography, for David Chizallet,...
- 2/9/2016
- by John Hopewell
- Variety - Film News
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