'Exceptional' drama A Prophet sweeps board at Cesar awards
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By Darren Estwick. |  |
Monday, 01, Mar 2010 10:38
By Lewis Bazley.
Prison film A Prophet has cleaned up at the Cesar awards, Frances's equivalent of the Academy awards.
The Jacques Audiard movie was named best film while lead actor Tahar Rahim and Audiard himself were also recognised.
The gruelling drama claimed the best film not in the English language prize at the Baftas last month and is also nominated for the best foreign film Oscar at this Sunday's upcoming ceremony.
Audiard thanked the film's large cast of genuine ex-prisoners for enforcing the film's intense atmosphere.
"We had a really exceptional cast of extras," Audiard told the event's Paris audience. "They forced us to do something exceptional."
Isabelle Adjani accepted a best actress prize for school drama The Day of the Skirt while Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino claimed the best foreign film award.
Harrison Ford, whose new film Extraordinary Measures opened on March 26th in the UK, received a lifetime achievement award from Cesars organisers the Academie des Arts et Techniques