The Claude Chabrol prize

“I work on the principle of not bugging people too much, and frankly, with the crime thriller, you really have to be very bad to totally bug them.”
Claude Chabrol

The Prix Claude Chabrol was created in 2011 following the death of the director Claude Chabrol as a tribute to the man who was Life President of the Festival of Crime Films in Cognac, and who was naturally the first jury president of the Beaune International Thriller Film Festival. Each year, it rewards a French film released in the prior year whose cinematographic qualities stand out in the crime thriller genre.

After 38 WITNESSES by Lucas Belvaux and ARMED HANDS by Pierre Jolivet (2013/ex-aequo), the Prix Claude Chabrol 2014 is attributed to FOXFIRE by Laurent Cantet and will be presented on Friday April 4 by François Guérif and Aurore Chabrol.

> FOXFIRE - CONFESSION D’UN GANG DE FILLES (FOXFIRE)
by Laurent Cantet

1955. A working class neighborhood in a small town in the United States. Five teenage girls make a pact that will bind them for life : they will become the Foxfire gang and will live according to their own rules. But this freedom comes at a price…