See five of the shortlisted finalists for this year’s LUX Audience Awards this season at Scandinavia House! On March 6 we’ll be screening Love Me Tender, a hard-hitting, sweeping drama by French breakout director Anna Cazenave Cambet. Praised by Variety as “an elegant and moving portrait of motherhood at odds with selfhood,” Love Me Tender is a searing adaptation of Constance Debré’s autobiographical novel of the same name.
A divorced mother’s mid-life self-discovery endangers her relationship with her beloved son in Anna Cazanave Cambet’s compassionate, painful and truthful debut. Lawyer Clémence (Vicky Krieps, Phantom Thread) has been separated for several years from her husband Laurent (Antoine Reinartz), with whom she shares custody of their son, Paul. When Clémence tells Laurent that she has begun to have romantic relationships with women, he takes the news badly, cutting off all communication with her, and hiring a lawyer to seek full custody of Paul. So begins a years-long struggle for Clémence to defend her right to be a mother— and a woman who is free to make her own choices.
This event has been organized by the European Parliament in partnership with Scandinavia House.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
A graduate of the La Fémis film school in Paris, Anna Cazenave Cambet wrote and directed her first short, Gabber Lover, in 2016, which snagged the Short Film Queer Palm in Cannes, the VFF Young Talent Award at the Münich Film Festival, and the Jury Award for Best Student Live-Action Short at the Palm Springs International Short Fest. That was followed by the short lemanja cœur océan (2017). Her first feature, Gold for Dogs (2020) was screened in the Critics’ Week section in Cannes. Love Me Tender, her second feature, premièred in the Un Certain Regard section of this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
ABOUT THE LUX AUDIENCE AWARD
The LUX Audience Award is a joint initiative of the European Parliament and the European Film Academy in collaboration with the European Commission and Europa Cinemas. It is the largest audience award worldwide and the only film prize in the world where citizens together with Members of the European Parliament -with each group weighting 50% -can decide who the winner will be by rating the nominated films online.
The LUX Audience Award fosters dialogue and engagement between politics and the public through the medium of film. The nominated films address European values and raise awareness about some of today’s main social and political issues such as mental health, poverty, climate change, freedom of expression, gender equality, LGBTIQ+ rights.
