Isabelle Huppert will receive the Lumière Prize during the 2024 edition of the Lyon festival, which will be held from October 12 to 20, 2024.
After Wim Wenders in 2023, Isabelle Huppert will receive the 2024 Lumière prize.
The Lumière Prize was created by Thierry Frémaux to celebrate a personality for all of their work and the link they have with the history of cinema. Over the years, it has become one of the most prestigious awards recognized by the profession and the international press.
In a press release, the Lumière Festival looks back on the rich career of Isabelle Huppert:
“His career covers an immense part of the history of contemporary cinema. She has collaborated with authors from all over the world: the greatest French filmmakers, the big names of European cinema, the Asian new wave, American independent filmmakers. A filmography of unique scope and impact, admired by Cate Blanchett, Julianne Moore, Sean Penn and Natalie Portman. A global actress who dazzles the screen as well as the stage, who lends herself to the objectives of photography and fashion, who was the winner of the biggest international cinema prizes including two Interpretation Prizes at the Cannes Festival, of which she was President of the Jury in 2009.“
“Isabelle Huppert is one of the most famous and celebrated French actresses in the world. The young premiere with the gourmand features of La Dentellière has established herself with the greatest filmmakers of her country: Claude Chabrol, who directed her seven times, notably in Violette Nozière or Une Affaire de femmes, Jean-Luc Godard, Claire Denis , Bertrand Tavernier, Diane Kurys, Maurice Pialat, Catherine Breillat, Michel Deville, François Ozon, André Téchiné, etc. Attentive to great European authors, she also shoots for Joseph Losey, Marco Ferreri, or Michael Haneke, who offers her the notable title role of The Pianist and in 2016 for Paul Verhoeven, for whom she stars in the thriller Which earned him an Oscar nomination. From the start of her career, her insatiable curiosity and her taste for unique experiences led her to the United States, where she starred in the legendary Heaven’s Door (1980) by Michael Cimino, but also more recently to the Philippines or in South Korea where she plays under the direction of Brillante Mendoza and Hong Sang-soo. Able to move from a sophisticated comedy to a demanding auteur film, she never stops turning, making each of her characters a singular enigma that she enriches with her naturalness and irony.“
Isabelle Huppert will receive the Lumière Prize on Friday October 18, 2024. The 16th Lumière Festival will take place from October 12 to 20, 2024.
