The organizers of the Lumière Brothers Festival in Lyon (central France) presented the New Zealand film director Jane Campion with a film review award on Friday night. They reported about it on the page on Twitter.
Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate – October 17, 2021 – Art and Celebrities
The champion was awarded for his contribution to the development of world cinema. Her most famous film is “Piano”, for which she was awarded the Golden Palm Branch of the Cannes International Film Festival, as well as the Oscar for Best Screenplay. This year, the 67-year-old Campion, after six years of creative silence, presented her new work “The Power of the Dog”. The film, based on the novel of the same name by American writer Thomas Savage, has already won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
According to the organizers of the film forum in Lyon, awarding the Champion was one of the last plans of the oldest French director and screenwriter Bertrand Tavernier, who died this year. For many years he was the head of the Lumiere Institute film center, which organizes the festival.
The Lumière Brothers Prize, considered by its creators to be the Nobel Prize in Cinema, has previously been awarded to Francis Ford Coppola, Jane Fonda, Wong Car-Wai, Catherine Deneuve, Martin Scorsese, Pedro Almod?var, Quentin Tarantino, Quentin Tarantino. , Milos Foreman, Clint Eastwood. Last year, it was awarded to a duo of Belgian filmmakers, the Dardenne brothers – Luke and Jean-Pierre.
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Source: Ukrgate
