The Alpe d'Huez Festival laughs young with "38°5 Quai des Orfèvres"

• "38°5 Quai des Orfèvres", Benjamin Lehrer's first film and excellent black comedy, takes home the Grand Prix.

• Brune Moulin, actress for “La Plus belle pour aller danser” by Victoria Bedos and William Lebghil for “Les Complices” were also justly rewarded.

• The moving “Les Petites Victoires” by Mélanie Auffey (“Roxane”) won the Public and Jury prizes.

The jury chaired by Karin Viard bet everything on youth for this 26th edition of the Alpe d'Huez Festival.

If we have come across big names in comedy like Philippe Lacheau, Phlippe Katerine and Michaël Youn, revelations, such as Just Riadh Bellaïche, amazing for

, whose president praised the performance on stage, have been a hit.

Starting with

, first film

by Benjamin Lehrer, deserved Grand Prize.

This very dark comedy, a thriller parody screened on the last day, was a surprise success, including for its director.

“It was the first time we were showing the film and it was crazy to see the magic happen,” he confided to

.

Let's hope that this reward will allow this nugget of dark humor to quickly find a distributor.

A price before a math test

It was also a real fairy tale for Brune Moulin, 15, who was making her debut for

by Victoria Bedos.

A true revelation of the festival, she won the Prize for Female Interpretation.

In tears on stage, she mentioned the math assessment that awaits her this Monday at high school.

“I'll be focused on my homework but I'll keep my head a little in the clouds because I've just had the best weekend of my life,” she confides to us a little later.

The talented William Lebghil, rewarded for

 de Cecilia Rouaud where he plays a brave guy buddying up with a hitman played by François Damiens, was also very moved.

"It's my first prize and I can't believe the thrill of hearing my name called," he said clutching his trophy to his heart.

Another favorite and not the least,

by Mélanie Auffret, who won the Special Jury Prize and the Audience Prize.

“Alpe d'Huez has brought me luck since

and I would have liked my actors to be there to share these prizes with me,” she says.

Julia Piaton and Michel Blanc are marvelous in this tender fantasy where they join forces to save a village school.

We will have to wait for the next few weeks to discover these films which prove that comedy is a genre as varied as it is dynamic, capable of satisfying the tastes of all spectators.

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