Isabelle Huppert to receive Lumière Award for Lifetime Achievement

“It’s a prize that bears the name of the inventors of cinema! Receiving it is a joy and a pride,” reacts the actress.

After Wim Wenders last year, or Tim Burton, Jane CampionTHE Dardenne brothers, Francis Ford Coppola, Wong Kar-wai And Jane Fondaactress like her, Isabelle Huppert will be awarded the prestigious Lumière Prize during the next edition of the Lyon festival which will be held from October 12 to 20. Remember that this honor aims, each year, to celebrate a figure of international cinema for his work and his contribution to the seventh art.

A prize that the actress will be able to add to the long list of those which have already rewarded an impressive international career, and among which we find two Césars (Ceremony, She), a Golden Globes (She), a BAFTA Award (The Lacemaker), two prizes for best actress awarded by the Jury of the Cannes Film Festival (Violette Noziere, The Pianist), two Best Actress awards (A Women’s Affair, Ceremony) and a special Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, or even an award for Best Artistic Contribution (8 Women) and an Honorary Bear for his entire career at the Berlinale. And that’s without counting his many other nominations, including the one in 2016 at the Oscars for his role in the She of Paul Verhoeven.

A career that began in 1972, in The Fork Bar ofAlain Leventwhich spans five decades, and during which she appeared in front of the cameras of some of the most acclaimed French and international filmmakers: Bertrand Blier, Otto Preminger, Bertrand Tavernier, Claude Chabrol, André Téchiné, Jean-Luc Godard, Abbas Kiarostami, Michael Cimino, Francois Ozon, Michael Haneke, David O. Russell, Patrice Chereau, Rithy Panh, Claire Denis, Hong Sang-soo, Anne Fontaine, Marco Bellocchio, Paul Verhoeven, Mia Hansen-Love, Joachim Trier, Wes Anderson and many others.

For them, she was in turn a lover, a seductress, a mother, a sister, an aunt, an old maid, a piano teacher, a drug dealer, a unionist, a queen, a Frenchwoman, a nun, a businesswoman… but always a woman first. She even slipped, with humor and self-mockery, into her own skin for an episode of season 3 of Ten percent.

The Lumière Festival pays him a first tribute in a video bringing together an anthology of his most beautiful performances:

For its fifteenth anniversary, the Lumière Festival is therefore honoring a woman whose “The career embraces an immense part of the history of contemporary cinema”but who also made a name for herself on stage (she was recently the Bérénice of Romeo Castellucci), and in front of the flashes of fashion photographers, she who is today the muse of the house of Balenciaga.

For her part, Isabelle Huppert is equally honored to receive the Lumière Prize:

“It is a great honor for me to receive the Lumière Prize. It is a magnificent prize, just like its festival. And it is a prize which bears the name of the inventors of cinema! Receiving it is a joy and a pride “reports the festival press release.

While this award pays tribute to her entire career, Isabelle Huppert is not about to call it a day. Right now, she has six projects on the go: Free Radicalsa movie of Xia Magnus ; a thriller by Dario Argento which does not yet have a title; The People Next Doorthe next Techine which will be released on July 10; A Traveler’s Needsof Hong Sang-soo ; The Prisoner of Bordeauxfor which she finds Patricia Mazuy, and which will be released on August 28; And Close-upa drama of Tonino De Bernardi planned for 2025.