12-29-2023, 06:45 PM
Film Title (English and/or Native): September Run
Nomination Categories: Best Film, Best Lead Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Musical Score
Nominating Nation: Laeral
Language: French
Run Time: 1 hr 40 mins
Director: Guan Tonghua
Producing Studio/Company: Marion-Guichard Studios
Cast:
Jeremie Studer-Herth as Renald
Pierre Mörch as Guilhem
Inès Capelle as Marilyn
Zihe Tavernier as Montague
Brief Summary:
Renald (Jeremie Studer-Herth) is an ordinary young man, growing up in a rural backwater region of Peninsular Laeral. It’s the 1970s—no one in his village has a television, and only one road is paved—and he’s just a few months away from graduating from his auto mechanic’s apprenticeship at the local garage. But Renald’s got big dreams: he’s secretly working to fix up the broken-down Mareilles Corsage sedan that he salvaged from the scrapheap. With this, he’ll be able to win over Marilyn (Inès Capelle), the general store clerk’s daughter, and drive to the big city of Lyrene to make a new life.
Things get complicated when Renald’s single dad, Guilhem (Pierre Mörch), runs into trouble. Desperate to prevent his farm from being seized by the bank, he’s taken up work as a bootlegger. Problem is, he’s been asked to carry out a riskier smuggling job than ever before—and his triad boss Montague, portrayed by the chilling Zihe Tavernier, won’t take no for an answer. After revealing his feelings to her, Renald is gearing up to take Marilyn to the Township Ball a few towns over, the restored Corsage sedan gleaming and its engine purring like a kitten, when his dad breaks the grim news about his bootlegging career. Knowing that his dad’s farm, and possibly his life is at stake, Renald selflessly offers to lend his car to help his dad evade the law that evening—but insists that he must come along. The father and son duo must evade the law and satisfy the triad’s wishes on a dangerous, moonlit smuggling run…as well as make it back in time for Renald to pick up Marilyn for the ball.
What makes this film special? Why was it nominated for this/these category/categories?:
For your consideration:
September Run is nominated for Best Film, for its tender exploration of themes of fatherhood and maturity and its bold use of lighting and sound design (detailed below in the film’s nomination for Best Musical Score).
September Run is further nominated for Best Musical Score. The film incorporates period and period-inspired music as a soundtrack throughout, and most notably features the innovative synching of several period songs with cues on screen in one continuous, twenty-two minute automotive chase sequence.
Jeremie Studer-Herth is further nominated for Best Lead Actor, for the skill and nuance he injects into his portrayal of Renald and his aspirations for the future.
Pierre Mörch is nominated for Best Supporting Actor; the distinguished former theater actor portrays single father Guilhem and his struggle to provide security and shield his son from harm, even if it means making a deal with the treacherous organized crime leader Montague.
Nomination Categories: Best Film, Best Lead Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Musical Score
Nominating Nation: Laeral
Language: French
Run Time: 1 hr 40 mins
Director: Guan Tonghua
Producing Studio/Company: Marion-Guichard Studios
Cast:
Jeremie Studer-Herth as Renald
Pierre Mörch as Guilhem
Inès Capelle as Marilyn
Zihe Tavernier as Montague
Brief Summary:
Renald (Jeremie Studer-Herth) is an ordinary young man, growing up in a rural backwater region of Peninsular Laeral. It’s the 1970s—no one in his village has a television, and only one road is paved—and he’s just a few months away from graduating from his auto mechanic’s apprenticeship at the local garage. But Renald’s got big dreams: he’s secretly working to fix up the broken-down Mareilles Corsage sedan that he salvaged from the scrapheap. With this, he’ll be able to win over Marilyn (Inès Capelle), the general store clerk’s daughter, and drive to the big city of Lyrene to make a new life.
Things get complicated when Renald’s single dad, Guilhem (Pierre Mörch), runs into trouble. Desperate to prevent his farm from being seized by the bank, he’s taken up work as a bootlegger. Problem is, he’s been asked to carry out a riskier smuggling job than ever before—and his triad boss Montague, portrayed by the chilling Zihe Tavernier, won’t take no for an answer. After revealing his feelings to her, Renald is gearing up to take Marilyn to the Township Ball a few towns over, the restored Corsage sedan gleaming and its engine purring like a kitten, when his dad breaks the grim news about his bootlegging career. Knowing that his dad’s farm, and possibly his life is at stake, Renald selflessly offers to lend his car to help his dad evade the law that evening—but insists that he must come along. The father and son duo must evade the law and satisfy the triad’s wishes on a dangerous, moonlit smuggling run…as well as make it back in time for Renald to pick up Marilyn for the ball.
What makes this film special? Why was it nominated for this/these category/categories?:
For your consideration:
September Run is nominated for Best Film, for its tender exploration of themes of fatherhood and maturity and its bold use of lighting and sound design (detailed below in the film’s nomination for Best Musical Score).
September Run is further nominated for Best Musical Score. The film incorporates period and period-inspired music as a soundtrack throughout, and most notably features the innovative synching of several period songs with cues on screen in one continuous, twenty-two minute automotive chase sequence.
Jeremie Studer-Herth is further nominated for Best Lead Actor, for the skill and nuance he injects into his portrayal of Renald and his aspirations for the future.
Pierre Mörch is nominated for Best Supporting Actor; the distinguished former theater actor portrays single father Guilhem and his struggle to provide security and shield his son from harm, even if it means making a deal with the treacherous organized crime leader Montague.