The Lumière Prize will be awarded on October 18 in Lyon to actress Isabelle Huppert during the Lumière festival, which will be held from October 12 to 20, 2024. She will succeed Wim Wenders in 2023. Jane Campion, Jane Fonda, Catherine Deneuve were the women who preceded Isabelle Huppert as recipients of the Lumière Prize in Lyon.
The Prize created by Thierry Frémaux, director of the festival, celebrates a personality for his entire body of work and the link it maintains with the history of cinema. The film festival is above all an event around the heritage of cinema.
Isabelle Huppert is one of the most famous and celebrated French actresses in the world.
The actress of the greatest filmmakers
In one of his latest opuses, The Prisoner of Bordeaux by Patricia Mazuy (to be released on August 28), where she shares the bill with the excellent Hafsia Herzi, we find ourselves thinking about her character when she is not on screen. Does this mean that the scenes without Isabelle Huppert are like the silences of Mozart, more Isabelle Huppert!
The young first with the greedy features of The Lacemaker by Claude Goretta, or the rebellious young girl of Valseuses de Blier, a film that is now controversial, has established itself among the greatest filmmakers of his country: Claude Chabrol, his father of cinema who directed it seven times, notably in Violette Nozière or A Women’s AffairJean-Luc Godard, Claire Denis, Bertrand Tavernier, Diane Kurys, Maurice Pialat, Catherine Breillat, Michel Deville, François Ozon, André Téchiné, etc.
His insatiable curiosity
Attentive to the great European authors, she also worked for Joseph Losey, Marco Ferreri and Michael Haneke, who in 2001 offered her the remarkable title role of The Pianist and Paul Verhoeven, for whom she starred in the 2016 thriller Elle, which earned her an Oscar nomination.
From the beginning 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 Gate (1980) by Michael Cimino, but also more recently in the Philippines and South Korea where she played under the direction of Brillante Mendoza and Hong Sang-soo.
Capable of moving from a sophisticated comedy to a demanding auteur film, she never stops filming, making each of her characters a unique enigma that she enriches with her naturalness and irony.
Isabelle Huppert is also an immense theater actress, devoted to Avignon and on all prestigious stages, including outside France. She may have seemed cold and distant to part of the public, in reality, she retains a mystery for everyone inherent in exceptional actresses.
With Hafsia Herzi in The Prisoner of Bordeaux to be released on August 28.
