26245: Allouard (news) Venice Prize for best young actor to Haitian actor Menothy Cesar (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Philippe Allouard <allouard@libertysurf.fr>

The Venice Festival's Marcello Mastroianni Prize for best young actor went 
Saturday to Haitian actor Menothy Cesar, who plays opposite Charlote Rampling 
as a young gigolo in Laurent Cantet's "Vers le Sud" (Heading South).
His prize was received by one of the film's producers, Simon Arnal, who 
explained: "It's very difficult for Haitians to travel from their country to 
ours. But I know he's very honoured to receive the prize."

The movie is inspired from Dany Laferiere's book "La chair du maitre".

French Director Laurent Cantet told: "I met Menothy in Port-au-Prince streets. 
He had never thought about being an actor. [...] I have been immediately 
impressed by the smooth facility he demonstrated and especially by his sense of 
rhythm and of silence; this demonstrated an interiority that never proved 
false".

(from different online sources)


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