Cafe De Flore Dept: Going into the evening, Jean-Marc Valles wrenching drama Cafe de Flore , starring Johnny Depp s partner Vanessa Paradis as a young mother devoted to her Down syndrome son, led the pack with 13 nominations, ahead of A Dangerous Method , which had 11. Valles risky, time-shifting film ended up with three Genies, including best actress for Paradis, according to Globe and Mail. Falardeau s script based on the one-character play Bashir Lazhar by velyne de la Cheneliere also won best adapted screenplay, while Ken Scott s crowd-pleasing Starbuck nabbed best original screenplay honours. Cafe de Flore , Julie LeBreton in Starbuck , Charlotte Sullivan in Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster and Roxana Condurache in The Whistleblower . Cronenberg s psychoanalytical thriller, which explores the history of sex through the minds of Sigmund Freud Viggo Mortensen and Carl Jung Michael Fassbender , took home Genies for best art direction, best musical score for long-time Cronenberg collaborator Howard Shore , and best supporting actor, a prize picked up personally by Mortensen, who walked the red carpet in Toronto with his director friend, who also cast the U.S. actor in Eastern Promises and A History of Violence .
(www.immigrantscanada.com). As
reported in the news.
@t Vanessa Paradis, Cafe de Flore
9.3.12