Talia Ryder incarne Lilian, extrait du film “The Sweet East”
Deauville American Film Festival: “The Sweet East” received the Louis Roederer Foundation Revelation Prize
12/09/2023 – Deauville, Normandie
During the 49th edition of the Deauville American Film Festival, the Louis Roederer Foundation Revelation Prize was awarded to director Sean Price Williams for his first film “The Sweet East”.
Selected at the Quinzaine des Cinéastes during the 2023 Cannes Festival, “The Sweet East” won the support of two jurys at the Deauville Festival by receiving the Jury Prize from the official Jury presided by Guillaume Canet and the Louis Roederer Foundation Prize from the Revelation Jury presided by Mélanie Thierry.
Mélanie Thierry, Félix Lefebvre, Cécile Maistre-Chabrol, Ramata-Toulaye Sy, Julia Faure, Pablo Pauly, Jury de la Révélation 2023
The 2023 Revelation Jury
The Revelation Jury decided to salute this crazy film depicting a gloomy portrait of contemporary America. Its mental, social and political disarray are filmed like a fairy tale: high-school student Lilian, played by young actress Talia Ryder, runs away while on a school trip and, through a series of encounters, crosses the spectrum of contemporary radicalism and madness, from white supremacists to Islamic radicals, from neo-punks to woke avant-gardists.
The Sweet East”, a zany “Alice in Wonderland” that wakes up the brain. Sean Price Williams’ first film is a hard-hitting, impetuous satire of our times, pointing out the absurdities, violence and excesses of our world at a frenetic pace. The extraordinary Talia Ryder – another revelation – far from a naive Alice – plays a disarmingly natural, lively heroine, biting, clear-sighted and uncompromising about the world and the monsters it breeds.
Sean Price Williams, director of “The Sweet East”
Sean Price Williams, whom The New Yorker described as “the cinematographer for many of the best and most significant independent films of the past decade”, has shot films for directors including Alex Ross Perry (Listen Up Philip) and Josh & Benny Safdie (Good Time).
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For the past 8 years, the Louis Roederer House has been proud to support the Deauville American Film Festival and to recognize an original work and its promising director through the Louis Roederer Foundation Revelation Prize, thus contributing to the promotion of independent cinema while shining a light on young talents.
