Laurence Anyways, Xavier Dolan’s feature film released in 2012, won the 2012-2021 Decade Prize, awarded on Sunday by a jury of Quebec college students.
Some 130 young people from 12 CEGEPs were tasked with designating a “winner of the winners” from among the 10 most recent winners of the Prix collégial du cinéma québécois, sponsored by Québec Cinéma.
” The film Laurence Anyways testifies to an incredible cinematographic mastery and comes to join the imagination of a generation of cinephiles ”, indicated a spokesperson of the jury of pupils after two days of deliberation.
The psychological drama, which tackles transidentity head-on, won the Collegial Quebec Film Award in 2013. On set for the television series The night Laurier Gaudreault woke up, the filmmaker Xavier Dolan said he was “very touched” by this new award.
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The filmmaker Xavier Dolan
The other feature films in the running were In known land and You sleep Nicole by Stéphane Lafleur, Vic + Flo saw a bear by Denis Côté, Chorus by François Delisle, Manor by Pier-Luc Latulippe and Martin Fournier, The infiltration problem by Robert Morin, Happy face by Alexandre Franchi, Antigone by Sophie Deraspe as well as My name is human by Kim O’Bomsawin.