“I had no cinema culture,” confided Isabelle Huppert, remembering, on Saturday, her first steps as an actress, after being awarded the 2024 Lumière prize in Lyon.
“I saw very few films before becoming an actress. I had obviously seen some like everyone else, I wasn’t completely… But still, compared to now for example, I think that I don’t “I had no cinema culture, I saw very, very few films before starting to make them”, declared the prolific actress during a press conference on Saturday, the day after having received from the director Mexican Alfonso Cuarón the 2024 Lumière prize rewarding 50 years of career.
“I think you can be an actress a bit like the Brontë sisters who wrote Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre and everything they wrote without ever leaving their rectory,” she added, welcoming the mission of “memory” maintained by the Lumière de Lyon festival.
“The vocation of a festival like the Lumière festival is to maintain something which is essential to cinema, it is its memory” she commented.
“When we come to present films here, it’s really incredible because I presented three films and I’m presenting one more this evening and that’s really extraordinary, the interest and there are still a lot of people who haven’t seen the films and that both struck me and at the same time pleased me a lot because they haven’t seen them and they want to see them”, underlined the actress.
“The legitimacy of the choice of Isabelle (Huppert) is the legitimacy of her predecessors and predecessors, there was no doubt about it, we immediately felt as soon as the announcement was made, that it there was something indisputable”, said Thierry Frémaux, general delegate of the Cannes Film Festival and director of the Lumière Institute, which oversees the 15th edition of the Lumière Festival (until October 20 in Lyon).
published on October 19 at 3:16 p.m., AFP
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