After leaving empty-handed from the last Cannes film festival, the handsome Onoda - 10,000 nights in the jungle, humanist fresco on the madness of a Japanese soldier, won the Louis-Delluc prize on Wednesday.

Its director Arthur Harari, born in 1981, succeeds documentary maker Sébastien Lifshitz, who won last year for

Adolescentes

.

Composed of twenty critics and personalities, under the chairmanship of the former president of the Cannes Film Festival Gilles Jacob, the Louis-Delluc Prize jury also awarded, in the first film category,

Vers la Bataille

by Aurélien Vernhes- Lermusiaux.

Towards a new theatrical release?

Shot in Cambodia and in Japanese,

Onoda

was screened in Cannes at the opening of the Un Certain Regard section but it left empty-handed for the Cannes fortnight.

Released in the midst of a health crisis, it only made 45,512 theaters.

Its draft for the Louis-Delluc Prize is a great consolation prize for a film hailed by critics, and the jury has also announced that it wants a new theatrical release to be organized.

Onoda and his director, whose second film after Diamant Noir in 2016, won against confirmed filmmakers who were also in the running: Valérie Lemercier for

Aline

, Arnaud Desplechin for

Tromperie

, Bruno Dumont for

France

...

A winner nominated almost unanimously

“This is a stunning film that brings together exceptional qualities in creation, manufacture or production.

The subject is itself astounding with this soldier who does not understand that the war is over, underlined Gilles Jacob, in the living room of the Fouquet's hotel, where the deliberations took place.

The staging, for a second film, is dazzling, with a mastery of cinema that is quite rare.

It is a film about loneliness and fear that is felt with sweat, skin and tears.

The winner was chosen almost unanimously, which is not frequent.

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