Quebec actor Théodore Pellerin received the Critique Week Revelation Prize on Thursday, which is a parallel selection, at the Cannes Film Festival.
Théodore Pellerin was rewarded for his performance in Ninothe first film by French director Pauline Loquès.
He embodies a young wandering man in the streets of Paris after having received a diagnosis of cancer.
In an interview for criticism, Pauline Loquès said he had a love at first sight for Pellerin, whom she did not know before.
Beyond being an immense actor, a genius of the game, Théodore has an incredible delicacy, a natural modesty, a real vulnerability which contrasts with a majestic physique
she said in the interview published on the organization’s website.
Ninoin which Théodore Pellerin plays alongside William Lebghil, Salomé Dewaels and Jeanne Balibar, will arrive in French cinemas in September. It will also be distributed in Quebec, but it is unknown on what date for the moment.
A career on both sides of the Atlantic
Revealed by the film Watchdog Directed in 2018 by Quebecoise Sophie Dupuis – who also played it in Underground et Solo –Théodore Pellerin now has an international career, after having also passed in front of Xavier Dolan‘s camera in Just the end of the world In 2016.
The one who is the son of the dancer and choreographer Marie Chouinard and the painter Denis Pellerin notably played the companion of Karl Lagerfeld in the French series Becoming Karl Lagerfeld On the big designer launched last year.
Theodore Pellerin (right) alongside Daniel Brühl in the series “Becoming Karl Lagerfeld”
Photo : Disney / Caroline Dubois
The artist has also been part of the distribution of American series On Becoming A God In Central Florida et Franklinwith Michael Douglas.
Théodore Pellerin will soon be playing Lurkerof the Australian-American filmmaker Alex Russell, who was presented this winter at the Sundance Film Festival and the Berlinale.
With Canadian press information
