The famous French actress will preside over the jury of the Venice International Film Festival
Isabelle Huppert he will preside over the main jury of the next one International Film Festival from Venice.
The esteemed French actress has a long-standing relationship with the Lido, having won the Volpi Cup for best actress twice, first with A Woman’s Affair in 1988 and then with Darkness in the Mind in 1995, both directed by Claude Chabrol .
Huppert – who made a total of eight films with Chabrol – also has a close link with the Cannes Film Festival, where in 1978 she won the award for best actress for Violette Noziere. In 2001, Huppert won her second Best Actress Award at Cannes for her portrayal of a sado-masochistic music teacher in Michael Haneke’s The Pianist. In 2005, she was awarded a special Golden Lion in Venice for her role in Gabrielle, Patrice Chéreau’s period drama about a destroyed marriage.
Huppert’s comment
The decision was made by the Board of Directors of the Biennale, which adopted the proposal of the Artistic Director of the Cinema Sector Alberto Barbera.
In accepting the proposal the French diva declared: “It is a long and wonderful story that binds me to the Venice Film Festival. Becoming a privileged spectator is an honor. Today more than ever cinema is a promise. The promise to escape, to shock us, to surprise, to look the world in the face, united in the diversity of our tastes and ideas“.
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Alberto Barbera added: “Isabelle Huppert is an immense actress, demanding, curious and very generous. Muse of numerous great filmmakers, she has never even shied away from the invitation of young or less famous directors who saw in her the ideal interpreter of their stories. About her Her enormous willingness to constantly put herself on the line, a sign of her uncommon intelligence, together with her ability to look at cinema beyond geographical and mental boundaries, make him an ideal President of the Jury in a festival open to the whole world such as the Venice Film Festival. We are very grateful to her for accepting the role, aware of the numerous commitments at the cinema and theater that she has to face in the coming months“.
