The Alternate César Awards: César du meilleur film (Best Film)

[domino harvey]

First post updated with this year's nominees. A few of these will be playing at the Lincoln Center French fest next month (as will L'Inconnu de la Grande Arche, which seemingly just missed the top five)

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Dossier 137 (Dominik Moll)
L'Attachement (Carine Tardieu)
La Petite Dernière (Hafsia Herzi)
Nouvelle vague (Richard Linklater) Netflix
Un simple accident (Jafar Panahi)

[domino harvey]

In an upset, L’Attachement won best film, with Linklater winning Best Director

[domino harvey]

L’amour ouf somehow got THIRTEEN nominations but missed the big one-- what the hell happened there

This got both a 4K and a Blu release in France and like his first film as director, it has English subs. Unfortunately I can find no American retailer or seller who has it available, so I’ll have to wait for the tariffs to fade away because there doesn’t appear to be a way for me to purchase it from France

Rather surprisingly, there’s a cheap Australian Blu-ray of this as well (as Beating Hearts)

[Never Cursed]

L’amour ouf somehow got THIRTEEN nominations but missed the big one-- what the hell happened there

This got both a 4K and a Blu release in France and like his first film as director, it has English subs. Unfortunately I can find no American retailer or seller who has it available, so I’ll have to wait for the tariffs to fade away because there doesn’t appear to be a way for me to purchase it from France

Rather surprisingly, there’s a cheap Australian Blu-ray of this as well (as Beating Hearts)

I think the Australian blu is the source for this on backchannels. Apparently most critics at Cannes and in the general French press hated it, but who know what that means