jackpot for TF1 with Touchées and Lycée Toulouse-Lautrec
These fictions resume with the king trophies for the best television film and the best series. OCS and Arte were also honored in a prize list giving way to young shoots.
From our special correspondents,
Violence against women, disability and school inclusion, power relations in the playground, romance among seniors. At the La Rochelle French Fiction Festival, the jury directed by Sandrine Bonnaire delivered, on Saturday evening, a civic and intimate prize list, listening to young people and women who won the transformations of TF1 fiction.
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These are two headline fictions that have won the king trophies. The statuette of best unit went to Affected , Alexandra Lamy’s first production in which she had her daughter Chloé Jouannet and her thirty-year-old friend Mélanie Doutey turn. Or how sport and fencing restore confidence and control of their bodies to three women of different generations who are victims of abuse. Very moved, Alexandra Lamy had tender words for her daughter whom she led and who blew her away with her maturity.
Highlight blind spots
The other great moment of emotion was the entrance on stage at triple gallop of the winners of the prize for the best series, that of the teenagers of the Toulouse Lautrec high school, semi-autobiographical dive into the only French establishment welcoming equally students with reduced mobility and able-bodied classmates. Developed by Fanny Riedinger, who is inspired by her own schooling, this “teen drama”, expected on the front page rather in 2023, avoid all the pitfalls of the genre. Neither exaltation of surpassing oneself, nor pathos to describe the daily life of disability, the gestures of everyday life and the fierce frankness of his students like the others. Joyful, curious, seductive, worried about the transition to adulthood.
This concern to highlight the blind spots of fiction, to evoke those to whom society too easily turns a blind eye, terrified by unfounded taboos, is also revealed in the distinction required of Seventh heaven. The creation of OCS, voted best 26-minute series, tells the sensual romance between two residents of an Ephad.
In unison with a selection worrying about the malaise of young people, the interpretation prizes rewarded a new generation of actors. The actresses Zoé Heran and Maïra Schmitt from The life ahead of you, on a first love between adolescent girls, differs the prize for the best female interpretation for this fiction from France televisions. Nemo Schiffman in Mama, don’t let me fall asleep of France Télévisions, RTBF and TV5Monde, is rewarded for the best male interpretation. He embodies a hero dominated by his addictions.
A new talent in the acting dysnasty at the Schneiders
In charge of the revelation prizes, the Adami honored the young Lucy Loste Berset, a CM2 kid fighting against the humiliations of her comrades in The courtyard of Art. The story of director Hafsia Herzi (You deserve a love, Good mother) also left with the statuette for best achievement. On the men’s side, the Adami voted for Vassili Schneider, brother of Niels (Totems, An Impossible Love). Featured in The story of Annette Zelmanwhich traces the truthful idyll devastated by the Holocausthe embodies a chilled lover moving heaven and earth to find his fiancée, denounced by her parents.
The thriller could triumph with the black comedy The man of our lives (M6), portrait of a polygamous sentimental hustler, and with the Belgian saga Attraction (RTBF, TF1 – Belgium), prize for the best French-language series. The title of the best European fiction goes to the BBC TV film Life and Death in the Warehouse about the inhumane working conditions of Amazon warehouse workers.
Timid beginnings for Notre-Dame, the part of the fire
Projected out of competition, the vain Diana of Poitiers, embodied by Isabelle Adjani, has established herself as the sumptuous nanar of this edition. Last preview event, the spectacular and psychological Notre-Dame, the part of the fire from Netflix, with Roschdy Zem and Caroline Proust, unveiled an ambitious staging. For the moment a little too rigid, the pilot episode struggles to arouse emotion and to sweep away an impression of superficiality in the dramatic escalation striking its protagonists, parables of a divided Hexagon. The other five episodes, online October 19, may dispel that impression.