Night doctor receives the Jacques-Deray prize for best crime film


The jury hails a film that “carries the mark of genre cinema: to show, through a particular story, a photograph of its time”.

The 18th Jacques-Deray prize for French detective films goes to night doctor, by Elie Wajeman with Vincent Macaigne and Sara Giraudeau, the Lumière Institute announced on Wednesday, where it must be delivered in February. “The jury singled out this film for its staging, its atmosphere, its nervous style, the quality of its performers and the straight-forward treatment of its hotly topical subject. night doctor bears the hallmark of genre cinema: showing, through a particular story, a photograph of its time“, underlined the organizers.

A sticky thriller, where Vincent Macaigne gives the best of his darkness, the film features a night doctor at the end of his rope, who finds himself alone facing his demons: his couple on borrowed time, his young lover (Sara Giraudeau) who claims, his pharmacist brother (Pio Marmaï) who is involved in opioid trafficking… This is Élie Wajeman’s third “film noir” after Aliyah (2012) then The Anarchists (2015). “To be so attracted by the night and the margins, you have to be a poet. Vincent (Macaigne) is the poet I was looking for, he’s a free character like this doctor“, had explained the filmmaker to AFP before the release of the film in theaters in June.

The Jacques-Deray prize, named after the Lyon director of The swimming pool Where Borsalino and former vice-president of the Lumière Institute, was created in 2005, two years after his death. It has rewarded filmmakers as renowned as Jacques Audiard, Michel Hazanavicius and Arnaud Desplechin.



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