Cannes 2022: “The worst”, by Lise Akoka and Romane Guéret, awarded with a certain look

The parallel section centered on author and discovery cinema has also awarded the jury prize to “Joyland”, the first feature film of the Pakistanis Saim Sadiq.

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After the joy of having seen his film selected by the largest film festival in the world, after the excitement of projections and the applause of the public, comes the fateful moment of the prize list. Led this year by the actress, director and producer Valeria Golino, the jury in charge of the Un Certain Regard selection made his own, Friday May 27, attributing her Grand Prix to the French feature film Les Pires, by Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret .

This film in the film which makes us witnesses of a shoot with young people suffering from a popular city of Boulogne-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais) uses the mise en abyme to question the vampiric dimension , voyeurist, even unhealthy of cinema and its consequences on the actors. The director (Johan Heldenbergh) that we follow here not hesitating in particular to let the camera turn when a scene between kids degenerates in a fight. Nevertheless, between the one who films, his team and those who are filmed are creates links, some of which do not always come out unscathed. The worst will be released indoors on November 23.

Among the twenty feature films which contributed in this 44 e edition, the first feature film of the Pakistanis Saim Sadiq, Joyland-story of a family chronicle disturbed by the extramarital love story to which the younger son cedes. The object of his desire being an artist of transsexual cabaret, the hidden presence of the two lovers, their unspeakable affair nevertheless shakes up the established order and move the center of gravity of each character. From this tilting, the director draws a film of a rare subtlety which earned him to receive the jury prize as well as the queer palm.

Important in a parallel section centered on “an author and discovery cinema” – which is said to be the antechamber of official competition -, the staging prize was awarded to Metronom, of the Romanian director Alexandru Belc. A film whose extreme rigor frames and accompanies the disappointments of a group of young people subjected, one fine morning, to the surveillance and repression system set up by the Ceausescu regime (we are in 1972, in Bucharest).

Crowd price and controversy

Known or unknown, actors and actresses have been revealed this year again, they sometimes stunned, as is the case for the Luxembourg actress Vicky Krieps, whose career has more than thirty films, and the young Adam Bessa , hitherto confined to small roles. Both arrived ex aequo and winners of the price of best performance, the first for his interpretation of Austria Elysabeth in Corsage, by Marie Kreutzer, the second for that of the young Ali in the film of Lotfy Nathan, Harka.

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