After Tilda Swinton (2021), David Cronenberg (2018) or Bertrand Tavernier (2015), the Golden Lion of Honor of the Mostra, the oldest film festival in the world, will this year reward the American filmmaker Paul Schrader, for the whole of his career.
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American Paul Schrader, director ofAmerican Gigolo and screenwriter of Taxi Driverwill receive an honorary Golden Lion at the 79th Venice Film Festival, which will be held from August 31 to September 10, the Mostra announced on Wednesday. “I am deeply honored, Venice is my heart lion”responded the 75-year-old director, quoted in the festival press release.
The director of the Mostra Alberto Barbera greeted on his side “a New Hollywood figure who revolutionized the imagination, aesthetics and language of American cinema from the late 1960s.” For him, Paul Schrader is “one of the most important American authors of his generation, a filmmaker deeply influenced by European culture and cinema, a stubbornly independent screenwriter”.
As a screenwriter, Paul Schrader has worked with the greatest: Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver but also raging bull and The Last Temptation of Christ), Steven Spielberg (Dating of the Third Kind), Brian DePalma (Obsession) or Sydney Pollack (Yakuza). In 2021, Paul Schrader had presented in competition in Venice The card counter, a thriller with Oscar Isaac, but he left empty-handed.