(Berlin) French actress Isabelle Huppert will receive a Lifetime Achievement Golden Bear at the upcoming Berlin Film Festival from February 10 to 20, Berlinale management announced on Thursday .
This prize, which rewards an “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 the cinema as an independent and unconditional form of art”, they added.
“We often see actors and actresses as mere tools in the hands of filmmakers,” they say. “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 cinematographic concepts”.
Actress already awarded multiple times, Isabelle Huppert will star in the film About Joan »By Laurent Larivière which will be broadcast at the Berlinale on February 15th.
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.