The beginning of Charlie Polinger “The Plague”, a psychological thriller with Joel Edgerton, won the Grand Prix during the 51st edition of the Deauville American Film Festival, which envelops this evening in the French city of Normandy.
The film opened in Cannes, university, where it won solid criticism. He tells the story of a shy teenager dealing with vicious intimidation while attending a Water-Water-Water Camp camp. It was acquired by the independent film company for the North American distribution, while AGC Studios manages international sales. Edgerton, who was in Deauville this week to present his film Netflix “Train Dreams” and receive a tribute, produced “The Plague”.
The jury, chaired by the French-Iranian actor Golshifteh Farahani, presented two prizes from the Jury Ex aequo for “Olmo”, directed by Fernando Eimbcke and “Omaha” by Cole Webley.
“Olmo”, produced by Plan B (a media company) and Michel Franco, follows the trip of an American-Mexican family through the eyes of a 14-year-old adolescent who is stuck at his home, treating his bed in bed. The cinema was presented at first in Berlin Film Festival.
“Omaha”, on the other hand, is a drama of road trip which was presented in first in Sundance and revolves around a widower in difficulty which takes his children in an unexpected road trip after a family tragedy.
Kristen Stewart’s “Chronology of Water” won the Revelation Award, while “Eleanor The Great” by Scarlett Johasson won the public nod of the public.
Based on the memories of Lidia Yuknavitch of the same name, “Chronology of Water” follows a woman (Imogen Pots) who emerges from an abusive childhood and transforms her trauma into competitive swimming, sexual exploration, toxic relations and dependence, before finally discovering her voice as a writer.
Stewart, who also participated in a masterclass in Deauville earlier in the day she highlighted the French films that influenced her as an actor and filmmaker, went on stage to accept his prize and said it had taken her eight years to make the film.
“It was sufficiently allowed me to make this film,” she said, after having apologized for not having spoken French. “I understand that it is a current story for the first filmmakers to make it feel impossible, but the difficult battle on it was so personal and not for me, Kristen, but for me, girl.”
“And I know it was the subject and the form, but it is because I was trying to make a film on bleeding, and the excavation and the climb that it takes to find a voice in a world masterfully designed to be silent – it took 8 whores of years,” said Stewart.
“Chronology of Water”, which was presented at first at the UN in Cannes, was mainly produced by Charles Gillibert at CG Cinema International, based in Paris, and was acquired by the distribution of forge for US.
