The filmmakers drunken birds had to open the champagne Sunday evening after the Gala Québec Cinéma. Indeed, with ten Iris Awards, including Best Fiction Feature, this luminous, poetic, political and romantic tale about a migrant worker and his bosses reigned almost unchallenged. Already during the Gala des artisans held upstream, drunken birds won five prizes. Star of the film and winner of the Iris for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role AND in a Supporting Role, for Maria ChapdelaineHélène Florent has written a page of history.
For the record, it was reported at the time of the release of the drunken birds a “perfect interpretation in all respects […]especially Hélène Florent to whom, between this film and Maria Chapdelaine, we should immediately award the Iris Prize”. That’s done.
This means that we can only be delighted with the results of the races, since within a remarkable vintage, drunken birds stood out as an exceptional work, both narratively and visually. Moreover, in addition to the Iris for best direction won by Ivan Grbovic, the film was awarded that of the best screenplay, co-written by the filmmaker and the cinematographer Sara Mishara, and that, precisely, of the best cinematography (note that Sara Mishara, with norbourgwas nominated twice in this category).
The film also won the Iris for Best Sound (Olivier Calvert, Stephen de Oliveira and Bernard Gariépy Strobl), Best Editing (Arthur Tarnowski), Best Role Cast (Nathalie Boutrie), and Best Actor in a supporting role (Claude Legault).
Flowers for Valley
The other notable winner of the evening, with four prizes, is the beautiful Maria Chapdelaine, by Sebastien Pilote. In addition to the Iris for the female supporting role already mentioned, the film received those for revelation of the year (Sara Montpetit), best costumes (Francesca Chamberland) and best hairstyle (Martin Lapointe).
With three trophies, The time grabberby Francis Leclerc, did not leave empty-handed either: best artistic direction (Arnaud Brisebois, Jean Babin, Ève Turcotte), best make-up (Adriana Verbert, Bruno Gatien), and best visual effects (Alain Lachance, Loic Laurelut, Eric Clément and Marie-Claude Lafontaine, from Alchimie 24).
An extremely successful film, norbourg by Maxime Giroux, gleaned only one prize, but not the least: best male interpretation in a leading role for Vincent-Guillaume Otis, excellent spinelessness as the right arm of fallen financier Vincent Lacroix. The Iris for the most successful film outside Quebec and the Audience Award went to Bootleggerby Caroline Monnet, and Sat, from Yan England, respectively. Finally, the choice of the Iris for the best first feature film went to Sin La Habanaby Kaveh Nabatyan.
In short film, it is the fabulous The big slaps, by Annie St-Pierre, who conquered. Not to mention the Iris tribute given to Louise Portal at the Gala des artisans for her 50-year career. Testimonials felt and ovation moved the great lady.
In documentary, the magnificent like a waveby Marie-Julie Dallaire, a unique immersive work that benefited from the support of the late Jean-Marc Vallée, rightly dominated with the Iris for best documentary feature, best documentary photo direction and best documentary editing.
The director thanked her missing friend as follows: “I have to talk about Jean-Marc Vallée. Jean-Marc Vallée, our executive producer, you have no idea what a gift you have given us by partnering with us to help promote the film. You wanted everyone to see this movie. Jean-Marc my friend, I love you, I miss you very much. »
joy and relief
The festivities turned out to be, on the whole, elegant and sober (superb opening number), less inclined to want to coat everything in forced humor like last year — although. Hosted for a second year in a row by the always sympathetic Geneviève Schmidt, the evening provided some beautiful moments (the tribute to the deceased).
Even the now traditional Hollywood red carpet was fertile in moments of magic: Donald Pilon and Antoine-Olivier Pilon discovering a family relationship, Emilie Bierre and Kelly Depeault wishing with benevolence and solidarity to their colleague Sara Montpetit to win the prize of the revelation of the year that they have both won in the past…
Finally, there was a clear impression of relief, of joy also, to find many, relaxation of sanitary measures helping, to celebrate a cinema more vibrant than ever.
The full list of 30 awards is available at quebeccinema.ca