A few months after L’Attachement’s double at the César Awards, the French filmmaker won the ArteKino International Prize on Sunday, awarded as part of the Investors Circle at the Cannes Film Festival.
A few months after the triumph of Attachment at the César Awards – Best Film and Best Adaptation, Carine Tardieu leaves the Croisette with a new distinction. His next feature film, All The Little Live Thingswon the ArteKino International Prize this Sunday, May 17, awarded as part of the Investors Circle at the Cannes Film Festival.
The jury, made up of Réjane Lacoste, Rémi Burah, Julie Gayet, Éric Jourdan and Nathalie Gonzalez, praised “a work of rare human depth and writing of great emotional accuracy”, a formula which confirms the extension of what has for ten years made the singularity of the filmmaker: this stubborn attention to the intimate and to the reconstituted forms of the family, already at work in Take away a doubt from me then in Attachment.
Produced by Fabrice Goldstein and Antoine Rein for Karé Productions, All The Little Live Things takes us to Normandy, in 1975. After the accidental death of their son Daniel, 25, Joseph and Alice settle in the countryside. They gradually become attached to their neighbor Suzanne, 36, who is raising her 8-year-old daughter alone. While Alice goes to Jersey to meet Daniel’s last partner and discovers an unknown part of her son’s life, Joseph, carried by the vibrant presence of Suzanne, finally faces the loss of a child he had never really been able to understand. A program that sounds very Tardieu: mourning, taming, the irruption of the living in lack.
The ArteKino International Prize is a development aid awarded in around ten major festivals (Berlin, Locarno, Rotterdam, Cannes, San Sebastián, Busan, Marrakech, Les Arcs…) in order to support young international directors and producers in the making of their projects.
