The People's Award went to the film The Mistress, starring Crystal Kwok, former acting partner of Jackie Chan. A South Korean take on the relationship between French cinema and Hollywood won the top honour at Switzerland's premier film festival on Sunday. In The Air won the Grand Prix at the Fribourg International Film Festival after a week in which some 18,000 film fans saw 72 movies from around the world. The South Korean is a close friend of Leos Carax, director of Les Amants Du Pont Neuf, and extracts from the Frenchman's 1986 film Bad Blood are used in his winning entry. The film centres on a film studies lecturer attempting to convey his love of French cinema to a class of students hooked on Hollywood.
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