'Shelter' finds room at top

"Take Shelter," starring Michael Shannon, came Deauville's top jerk. Helmer Shaun Nichols' mental drama "Take Shelter" beat 13 other challengers to win the grand prize in the 37th Deauville American Film Festival, which wrapped Saturday. Pic, starring Michael Shannon like a guy battling with mental illness, won Cannes' Experts Week in May and tested competing at Sundance. It segues to Toronto now.Advert Vitam will release the film on 12 ,. 7 in France. Presided over by French helmer Olivier Assayas, the jury granted its prize to Matthew Gordon's coming-of-age drama "The Dynamiter," among the competition's nine directorial debuts. Lensed in Mississippi, pic follows a teenager being careful of his more youthful half-brother once they are abandoned by their mother for that summer time. "The Dynamiter" is seeking theatrical distribution.Gordon is presently creating documentary "Lay offs On Wall Street: Bankers in their own individual Words," directed by his wife, Marianne Michallet, who professional created "The Dynamiter."Tony Kaye's "Detachment," starring Adrien Brody and Christina Hendricks, nabbed the Fipresci worldwide experts prize and also the Thought jerk. Tribeca Film has U.S. distribution privileges Pretty Pictures distributes in Gaul.Deauville closed with Michel Hazanavicius' quiet film "The Artist," starring Jean Dujardin. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com