For the feature film Le Jeune Adhmed, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have just been crowned, Saturday evening during the closing ceremony, with the prestigious prize for directing at the Cannes Film Festival. They received it from Danish-American actor Viggo Mortensen.
The two brothers, who wanted to film in Le Jeune Ahmed "a call to life, to difference, which is also the vocation of cinema", have already received the Palme d'Or in the past for L'Enfant , in 2005, a second palme d'or for Rosetta, in 1999 and the grand prize at the Cannes festival for Le Gamin au vélo in 2011. The Dardenne brothers obtained their fourth Cannes award this year, all categories combined.
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The feature film paints a striking portrait of a ten-year-old young Muslim (Idir Ben Addi), prey to the influence of an extremist imam, who contrives to make him fall into the snares of Islamism. His family is worried, his teachers too. Ahmed himself is torn between this God who only demands of him and the gentle youth of children his age. The portrait is striking. The film has been in French theaters since May 22.
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Chaired by director Alejandro González Iñárritu, the jury for this 72nd edition was made up of actress Elle Fanning, directors Maimouna N'Diaye, Kelly Reichardt, Alice Rohrwacher, designer Enki Bilal and directors Robin Campillo, Yorgos Lanthimos and Pawel Pawlikowski.
Last year, Cold War, by Pawel Pawlikowsk, received the prize for directing. Bewitching, his film is a fresco of love in the bohemian Paris of the 1950s. the award in 1991 (Barton Fink), 1996 (Fargo) and 2001 (The Barber). Despite their four respective awards, the Cohen and Dardenne siblings do less than British director Ken Loach, who has won five on his own, including two gold palms.
