Isabelle Huppert will receive a Lifetime Achievement Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, which takes place from February 10 to 20, 2022. Lakeomedian will also be present with the film “About Joan” by Laurent Larivière screened on February 15.
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French actress of international stature Isabelle Huppert will receive a Lifetime Achievement Golden Bear at the 72nd Berlin Film Festival from February 10 to 20, management announced on December 16 of the Berlinale.
This prize, which rewards a “exceptional career”, will be presented to her on February 15 during a day devoted to the broadcasting of seven of the nearly 150 films, TV films and television series in which she has played, including The Pianist by Michael Hanecke and Save who can (life) by Jean-Luc Godard.
Isabelle Huppert, 68, is “an inimitable artist who does not hesitate to take risks or to oppose the mainstream”, underlined the two co-directors of the festival, Mariette Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian, quoted in a press release. The attribution of this reward to the muse in particular of Claude Chabrol, is “a profession of faith in favor of cinema as an independent and unconditional art form”, they added.
“We often think of actors and actresses as mere tools in the hands of filmmakers”, according to them. “With actors and actresses like Isabelle Huppert, this relationship turns into an exchange” where the artists are “the driving force not only of emotions, but also of the creation of cinematic concepts”.
An actress who has already received multiple awards, Isabelle Huppert will star in the About Joan by Laurent Larivière which will be broadcast at the Berlinale on February 15. A regular at this festival, she has already acted in seven films presented in Berlin, including 8 women by François Ozon and The future by Mia Hansen-Løve.