Heiress of British social cinema, Andrea Arnold was rewarded by the Cannes Festival for her first feature film, “Red Road”, in 2006. The prestigious Golden Coach of the Quinzaine des filmmakers was previously awarded to Martin Scorsese, Frederik Wiseman or Souleymane Cissé.
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British director Andrea Arnold will be awarded the prestigious Golden Coach during the Filmmakers’ Fortnight at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, the Society of Film Directors (SRF) announced on Tuesday April 9. “A great explorer of the margins, dynamiter of the codes of social film, the director and screenwriter has no equal when it comes to probing the power of bodies and minds,” the SRF said in a statement.
Revealed in 2004 with Wasp, a short film thanks to which she won an Oscar, Andrea Arnold won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival two years later with her first feature film, Red Road.
Boldness and innovation
Two other Jury Prizes will follow during the Cannes high mass for this solid heiress of British social cinema, aged 63: in 2009 for Fish Tank, with Michael Fassbender, and in 2016 for American Honey, his latest film with Shia LaBeouf in the cast.
In American Honey, her first film shot outside Great Britain, Andrea Arnold described, through a road trip with bold visual contours, the desire for independence of a teenager embarked on a debauched trip.
The public was also able to rediscover his unclassifiable style during the 2021 Cannes Film Festival with Cow, intimate dive into the life of an English dairy cow, Luma. Each year, the Carrosse d’or is awarded to a director who demonstrates daring and innovation. It was awarded in 2023 to Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé.
