Awards

For the way in which he portrays family and class disputes with a style as direct as it is creative. The award has been given unanimously.

Tied with The Closed Doors (1999).

The Jury wishes to mention the extraordinary intensity and measure of the magnificent ambiguous presence/apparition of Jean-Claude Vallod (the "father") in the film Ressources Humaines by Laurent Cantet.

Because it tells, in a human and believable way, the story of some workers engaged in a fight to save their working place.

For its accuracy in reconstructing a social reality, for the depth in outlining the relationship between father and son, for the attention to the characters' changes and transformations, for its high civil meaning, for the sobriety of a directing way that gives value to a script respecting the truth of dialogues and feelings.