Cannes Critics’ Week Awards: ‘La Gradiva’ Wins Top Prize

Marine Atlan’s “La Gradiva” claimed the top honor at the 65th edition of Critics Week, winning the Ami Paris Grand Prize, while Aina Clotet’s “Alive” won the Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award. The section, which is curated by Ava Cahen and runs parallel to the

French director Marine Atlan’s La Gradiva has scooped the top Ami Paris Grand Prize in the Cannes parallel section Critics’ Week. The first film follows A group of French high-school students who travel to Naples on a school trip to discover the ruins of Pompeii and the bodies petrified by Vesuvius.