'Dead' rises at Deauville Film Fest

September 10, 2007 Andre Techine and his jury breathed life into Karen Moncrieff's "The Dead Girl," awarding it the 33rd Deauville American Film Festival's grand prize as the 10-day celebration of trans-Atlantic cinema wrapped Sunday night. Techine's jury awarded the runner-up Jury Prize to "Never Forever," Gina Kim's moving portrait of a woman who embarks on a series of sexual encounters with a Korean immigrant worker as she struggles to save her marriage. French actor and director Gael Morel and his jury bestowed the Cartier Revelation Award for emerging talent on "Rocket Science," directed by Jeffrey Blitz, who took the best director prize at last year's Sundance Film Festival for the movie about a stuttering boy who joins his high school debate team.

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