'Lady Chatterley' wins best film at France's Cesar awards

(AFP)
Updated: 2007-02-25 08:44

Pascale Ferran delivers a speech after she was awarded for Best Adapted Screenplay Award for "Lady Chatterley," during the Cesar ceremony, France's top movie awards at Paris' Theatre du Chatelet.[AFP]

"Lady Chatterley," a cinematic version of D.H. Lawrence's novel directed by Pascale Ferran, won the award for best French film at this year's Cesars, France's equivalent of the Oscar", here Saturday.

"Little Miss Sunshine," a heart-warming independent movie about an American girl's misplaced ambition to be a child beauty queen, won the best foreign film award at the glittering ceremony here.

Other films nominated for best picture included the thriller "Ne le dis a Personne" (Don't Tell Anyone) of Guillaume Canet and "Indigenes," about north Africans who fought for France during World War II.

The night of nights for French cinema, the Cesars are however only a warm-up for the main event on Sunday when Hollywood stages the 79th Academy Awards.